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Jackets XL / Yellowjackets

For Jackets XL, the Yellowjackets’ 25th album, the band continues to stretch and reinvent itself with an exciting, full-bodied collaboration with the superb WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany. The project combines the shapeshifting, multiple GRAMMY-Award-winning quartet with the renowned big band, re-imagining well-known band originals with dynamic new arrangements.

(Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1175

Be Water / Christian Sands

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On his stunning new album, Be Water, pianist Christian Sands takes inspiration from water’s tranquility and power and muses on the possibilities offered by echoing its fluidity and malleability. Through ten gorgeous and thrilling pieces, Sands alternately conjures the serenity of a sun-dappled lake and the drama of a relentless thunderstorm.

(Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1170

While

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Looking Up / Jimmy Greene

On his heartfelt new album, While Looking Up, saxophonist Jimmy Greene was guided by the inspirational words of his pastor: “If I’m not able to find strength or peace by looking inward,” he said, “I have to look upward.” On While Looking Up, Greene finds solace, support and inspiration from each of these directions, but in particular from casting his gaze heavenward.

(Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1154

Yesun / Roberto Fonseca

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With deep roots in the Afro-Cuban tradition, Roberto Fonseca continues to astound. “The most exciting pianist in Cuba,” raves The Guardian, while France’s Le Figaro notes that Fonseca “Does something new with the old, without ever denying its origins, and opens himself to the world.” The New York Times adds that Fonseca “Makes all possibilities seem possible, and the moment feel perfect, intensely true.”

(Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1173

Reincarnation

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/ Warren Wolf

On his latest album, Warren Wolf reveals an entirely different side to his multi-faceted talents. As the title implies, Reincarnation represents a rebirth of sorts for the Baltimore vibesman. In part it frees Wolf to indulge his love for the R&B and soul hits that served as the soundtrack to his formative years in the 1990s.

Symphony Hall Concert / Erroll Garner

One of the most popular figures in jazz during his exceptional career, Erroll Garner’s legacy is receiving a remarkable reinvigoration. Octave Music and Mack Avenue are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Garner’s birth with this stunning 27-song previously unreleased 1959 concert recorded at Boston’s Symphony Hall. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1189 $17.99 $14.39

This Bitter Earth / Veronica Swift

With Veronica Swift’s second Mack Avenue release This Bitter Earth, she flips the script by crafting an ingenious song cycle that tackles several modern issues head-on. The singer-songwriter gathered material that covers multiple genres, including jazz, American musicals and contemporary indie-rock fortifying her position as a leading force in genre-bending song presentation. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1177 $17.99 $14.39

The Vagabond / Aaron Diehl

The best way to describe Aaron Diehl’s new recording, The Vagabond, is that it is a quiet masterpiece. This is thoroughly a jazz recording rooted in precedents set by Diehl’s forbearers such as Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, Ahmad Jamal, Roland Hana and John Lewis. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1153

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A Night at the Movies / Erroll Garner

This classic Erroll Garner album contains music from some of the last studio sessions of Garner’s longest running trio, with Calhoun (bass) and Martin (drums). After nearly a decade of touring and recording together, they function here as an uncanny musical unit, deftly navigating Garner’s twists and turns. Here are a dozen of his favorite deep cuts from the movies he loved. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1161

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Perpetual Optimism / Riley, Cohen, Hall, Louis, Harris

On his second Mack Avenue Records release, Perpetual Optimism, drummer Herlin Riley preaches his silver-lined gospel on 10 tracks whose joyous spirit and contagious swing are sure to convert any listener to the bright side. Perpetual Optimism reunites the quintet of rising stars that Riley assembled for his Mack Avenue Records debut, New Direction. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1136 $17.99 $14.39

1CD# MAC1169

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