new jazz releases

Iroko / Avishai Cohen; Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.

Iroko launches Avishai Cohen’s longtime dream “to do a Latin project with his favorite Latin musician in New York”. The Israel-based bassist and master conguero-vocalist Abraham Rodriguez Jr., brim with tunefulness, grooves, warmth, indelible melodies and the bonds of brotherhood. Iroko, the French naïve label’s unique release brims with tunefulness, grooves and warmth.

1CD# BLV8080

$16.99

There Used To Be Rain / David Detweiler

A superior post bop soloist, tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator David Detweiler is influenced by early John Coltrane and Michael Brecker but has a sound and style of his own within the mainstream of modern jazz. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC3993 $15.99

Born in Millennium / Alan Bartus

When you hear the fluid lines with the concise swing attacks of pianist Alan Bartus, you can hardly believe that the man is only 21 years old. On four of the eight songs, he is joined by drummer Gregory Hutchinson, who has already been heard with jazz giants such as Joe Henderson, Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman and John Scofield. (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71429 $14.99

Coming Home / Mathieu Clement

Drummer Mathieu Clement is only 21 years old, and he was only 20.at the time of recording “Coming Home”. Jazz is in the best hands with this young group, all of whom are younger than thirty. Mathieu Clement’s sextet celebrates the balance between tradition and modernity with great enthusiasm and shows that the label “Jazz thing Next Generation” is a never-ending source. (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71422 $14.99

Copenhagen Coda / Dexter Gordon

Jazz giant and tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon bids Copenhagen farewell on his new album Copenhagen Coda – Live at Montmartre 1983. This album marks Gordon’s final farewell to friends and fans in the Danish capital, with which he had had a twenty year love affair. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018489 $15.99

An Evening with Lee Konitz & Frank Wunsch

“Lee knew all the standards, but in his last 25 years he always played the same ones, drawing from a repertoire of about 25 pieces. We played together for the first time in Dortmund in 1986. Eventually Lee and I began playing more as a duo. The recording of our concert from the LOFT in Cologne, 1996, is documented on this CD.” – Frank Wunsch (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW213 $16.99

Bird / Wolfgang Schmidtke Orchestra

If there is one figure in jazz who remains similarly inexplicable, it is Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker has contributed so much to the syntax and grammar of jazz that no contemporary jazz musician exists today who is not influenced in some way by Bird’s jargon, either directly, or in echoes. (Jazzwerkstat)

1CD# JW217 $16.99

From This Moment On / Matyas Bartha Trio

Elegance and passion are the outstanding qualities of Hungarian jazz pianist Mátyás Bartha, and he recorded his second album From This Moment On in trio format once again: “As a pianist, you really want to play in a trio,” he believes, “because you can’t hide behind a wind player.” (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71420 $14.99

Brubeck: Debut in the Netherlands 1958

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

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