New Jazz

Brubeck: Debut in the Netherlands 1958

With the support of the American State Department, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, including new members Joe Morello and Eugene Wright, began a major tour of Europe early in 1958. Their first concert in the Netherlands was held on 26 February in the legendary Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam. The concert inaugurated a triumphant career in Europe. (Lost Recordings)

1CD# TLR 2204043 $16.99

1CD# MOB947294

$16.99

Quincy Jones – Six Complete Albums

1957–1961 [3 CDs]

Quincy Jones has become one of the most prominent personalities in popular music as a trumpeter and pianist who became an arranger, composer, bandleader, record producer and film & TV producer, and winner of a GRAMMY Legend Award in 1992, and who in 2022 is still active after a 70-year career. Tracks include “Evening in Paris,” “Be My Guest,” “Walkin,” “Sermonette,” and more. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB912727 $19.99

Jazz Things – Next Gen. Vol. 96 –

Elsa Johanna Mohr

The 96th release of “Jazz thing Next Generation” seems to be heading to Brazil, but singer Elsa Johanna Mohr is from Düsseldorf. She can now be heard together with the Brazilian guitarist Flavio Nunes on her debut album. Together, the two have compiled a repertoire of Mohr’s originals and various Brazilian classics. The clear diction and the informal style of Mohr’s singing make “Passadinha” a small gem. (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71418 $14.99

Last Concert in Europe / Leimgruber, Demierre, Phillips [2 CDs]

The trio Vandermark has released a half dozen albums over the last 20 years, each with the freshness of a first encounter. There’s always a sense of discovery in their playing, as if it were their first time meeting. So the encounter in Lucerne in December, 2021, documented on this recording but it was, at any rate, the first time they played this particular concert: there’s wisdom in the conversation. (JZC)

2CD# JW 227 $19.99

Samba Dem Você / Rosa Passos Quartet

Brazilian bossa nova queen Rosa Passos presents her highly anticipated album Samba Sem Você For years, the Brazilian vocalist and guitarist has had a devoted global following, including fans who proclaim she is Brazil’s answer to Ella Fitzgerald or the female João Gilberto. It’s always soul-soothing and beautiful, and if you press play and close your eyes you can almost feel the Brazilian soul and see the sandy beaches for your inner eye. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018499 $15.99

Sound Bridges / Vandermark

Sound Bridges was recorded on September 24, 2021 as part of the ‘Ruhr Jazz Festival’ at the Bochum Art Museum. Sharing the stage that evening were four musicians whose paths have crossed several times over the decades: Ken Vandermark, Matthias Muche, Thomas Lehn and Martin Blume. And the fun they are having is audible – They go straight into full swing, as if they had a world to win. (JZC)

1CD# JW 219 $16.99

Lewis: Blues & Bach

It is to this musical conception and to the compositional art of John Lewis that, a little more than two decades after his passing, Blues and Bach wishes to pay tribute. His tunes have been reworked and orchestrated for the occasion with an ensemble that, in some ways, is itself a crossover within a crossover (jazz trio plus string quintet and woodwind quintet). (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73550 $16.99

Taylor: Conversations with Tony Oxley

Pianist Cecil Taylor, who died on April 5, 2018 in his hometown of Brooklyn, had a style all his own. With Ornette Coleman he began in the 1960s to develop a music dominated by tone clusters and staccato notes that we later came to know as free jazz. Here we have one of his last concerts from 2008, performed in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie. (JZC)

1CD# JW 198 $16.99

Solo in Denmark / Michel Petrucciani

This album features French piano prodigy Michel Petrucciani in a solo recording from Silkeborg Church, 1990. Petrucciani was one of the most popular pianists in the 1990’s due to his extraordinary technique, his astounding musical outlook and extremely dynamic playing style. His music is simply timeless and magical, seemingly coming straight from his soul. As he is often quoted: “I’m not playing to your head, but to your soul.”

(Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018495 $15.99

The Goldman Variations / Andreas Willers

The titles of this music are as much a play on words as it’s content is a play on musical idioms and abstraction based on the 30-year-old ‘Ground Music’ concept developed while composing for Blue Collar, the Andreas Willers Octet and Montauk among others, striving for further development of a contemporary European jazz language. (Jazzorchestra)

Quietitude / Eliane Elias

Hot off her 2022 GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz Album, Mirror Mirror with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés, superstar pianist, singer, composer and arranger Eliane Elias returns to her Brazilian bossa nova roots with Quietude. A luscious collection showcasing her alluring vocals with her virtuosic instrumental jazz and piano mastery, the recording features songs by such legendary composers as Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Dorival Caymmi. (Candid)

1CD# JW 207

$16.99

Swedish Waltz / Mattias Astrom Trio

Mattias Åström writes: “We recorded this album at Studio Kultivator in Bandhagen Stockholm run by engineer Jonas Olofsson. The recording was made in one day and the goal was to document the trio under good circumstances – with a nice grand piano and studio…

The title of the ballad “Letting Go”, is about letting go of control while playing – easier said than done, but maybe that is what jazz is all about? Hope you enjoy the music!” (Prophone)

1CD# PCD307

$18.99

Sensitive Hours / Avishai Cohen

Unreleased outside of Israel, Sensitive Hours, the gold album recorded in Hebrew by Avishai Cohen is now available. For the first time in his career, Cohen does not make an instrumental album, but an album of beautiful songs that he writes and performs, strongly influenced by jazz, some traditional music, revealing a voice with multiple accents and an incredible charm...An essential milestone in his already rich discography. (Naïve)

1CD# BLV7843

$16.99

Powerplay / Organic Organ Trio

The album Powerplay is a collection of original tunes inspired both by jazz today and grooves from the past. Modern jazz has had a clear influence on the blues tune Goldish, a homage to American organ player Larry Goldings. The title track “Powerplay” takes influences from modern organ jazz and Sam Yahel Trio. A more traditional sound is found in the songs “FU” and “It Ain’t Swingin’.” (Prophone)

1CD# MOB305124 $15.99

Jiggs’ Back in Town / Copenhagen Trio

The internationally acclaimed American jazz trombonist Jiggs Whigham meets the two young, talented Danish musicians, guitarist Pelle von Bülow and bassist Matthias Petri on his new album Jiggs’ Back In Town. The album is the result of two days in the studio in October 2021, where the American trombone sensation visited Copenhagen as the guest of fellow trombonist Anders Jacobsen. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018534 $15.99

Duke Ellington: Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival

Never before released Duke Ellington concerts recorded in 1969 and 1973 at the Berlin Jazz Festival. All tracks have been remastered from the original Berlin radio tapes using Phoenix Mastering - a unique restoration process developed over two years by The Lost Recordings and Devialet teams. The second half of the album was recorded with the famous Duke Ellington Orchestra. (TLR)

1CD# TLR 2204041 $16.99

Little Bird / Alexander Lovmark

Alexander Lövmark writes:

“Dear listener, thank you for taking an interest in my record. Little Bird is a tribute to my lifelong love of the Great American Songbook. It features songs I love to sing and treasure listening to. The album was recorded in September 2020 in my hometown, Gothenburg, Sweden.” (Prophone)

1CD# PCD304

$18.99

Sunny Side of the Street / Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert, the prolific Tijuana Brass titan, returns with Sunny Side Of The Street. This new set of 11 songs contains gentle ballads like “Childhood” and “Time After Time”, upbeat romps like “Pata Pata” and “Tickle Time” and covers of classic songs like “I’ll Remember You” and Louis Armstrong’s “On The Sunny Side Of The Street”. Few artists in the history of American music have been able to stay relevant decade after decade. (Herb Alpert Presents)

1CD# MOB022369 $13.99

1CD# PCD295 $18.99

Swiss Radio Days Jazz, Vol. 47 / New York Tango Trio

“The jazz approach of New Tango like that of New Musette has always been obvious for me. Jazz, Musette, Tango all feed on the same ingredients, relating to dance, strong melodies, precise and refined harmonies. The most important thing is the style. We approach this New Tango and New Musette repertoire with a jazzistic approach, playing each concert in a totally free way.”

– Richard Galliano (Challenge)

1CD# TCB 02472 $16.99