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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”. (Herb Alpert Presents)
1CD# MOB022369 $13.99
Gypsy Jazz Style / Pietro Lazazzara
“This album represents an innovative and renewed production path started in 2020 with my first album My Art of Gypsy Jazz. Already in the previous work, my aim was to immediately highlight in the title a personal vision of the Gypsy style, starting from its stylistic peculiarities, and adding “color” in a harmonic and stylistic combination with my experience. – Pietro Lazazzara (Stradivarius)
1CD# STR57925S $16.99
Four in Blue / Ronner, Spilka, Zapadlo
An album brimming with earthy blues and soulful jazz! The bandleader, saxophonist Radek Zapadlo founded the quartet in 2017, inspired by the great Hammond player Jimmy Smith. Since then, the quartet has moved towards its own original music in the aesthetics of those recordings and styles. (Animal Music)
1CD# BR001-2 $21.99
Levitas / Lubos Soukup; Christian Pabst
Saxophonist Luboš Soukup together with his long-term musical partner, German pianist Christian Pabst, have recorded a new album released on the Czech label Animal Music. By way of improvisation and their free approach to the compositions, they achieve a uniquely powerful style of interpretation. Levitas draws on jazz, but also dips into folklore and classical music for inspiration. (Animal Music)
1CD# ANI106-2 $21.99 Tiefe Nacht: Andreas Pientka
The Leipzig bassist Andreas Pientka sets massive, monumental music in scene with his tentet on “Tiefe Nacht” (trans.: Deep Night). Pientka actually composed this music for orchestra, but the Corona pandemic thwarted his goal and so he opted for this brassheavy and much more jazz-inspired instrumentation. (Double Moon)
1CD# DMCHR71407 $14.99 Nora / Franco Ambrosetti
Tomorrow’s Finally Here / Bangkok Lingo
Franco Ambrosetti plays all the right notes in typically elegant fashion on Tomorrow’s Finally Here is the second Nora. Backed by an all-world group of long play album from energetic jazz pianist Uri Caine, bassist Scott Colley band Bangkok Lingo. This Quintet is and drummer Peter Erskine, with a filled to the brim with both high-octane guest turn by guitarist John Scofield, rhythm and intense solos as well as laid plus GRAMMY-winning pianist-arranger back grooves and delightful melodies, Alan Broadbent conducting a 22-piece and they have established themselves string orchestra. (Yellowbird) as a sought-after act on the Norwegian 1CD# ENJ-9811 $18.99 live scene. (NXN)
Free Swing / Tuuri
Free Swing is a fitting name for a jazz quartet, but there is actually more to it in the case of this international band of four; the two words are composed of the internationally customary abbreviations of the countries of origin of the protagonists. (Double Moon)
1CD# DMCHR71417 $14.99
Jussi Reijonen: “As I write these notes sitting on my balcony in July 2022, it has been more than 9 years since the release of my debut album. Then the Covid-19 pandemic happened, and the world stopped. Like so many of us caught in the new eerie calm, I retreated into inner spaces. I began revisiting sketches of ideas I had accumulated over the years, and finally, very, very slowly, new music started to come.” (Challenge)
1CD# CR 73545 $16.99
On Shoulders We Stand / David Linx
This is how David Linx and Guillaume de Chassy, initiators of this project, define their common approach. The first one, being the incomparable male jazz vocal reference, has founded his singularity in both the AfricanAmerican culture, and the European musical landscape. The second one, is the cross-border pianist between jazz and classical music. (Yellowbird)
1CD# ENJ-9806 $18.99
Quietude / Eliane Elias
Superstar pianist, singer, composer and arranger Eliane Elias returns to her Brazilian bossa nova roots with her new album 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 along with Dori Caymmi. (Candid)
1CD# MOB305124 $15.99 Nothing – Nic / Vertigo
To celebrate their twenty years together, the cult multi-genre band Vertigo come with their new studio album – their sixth release with Animal Music. This new album brings complex and extensive, but also minimalist compositions in which different styles and moods interlace with one another in a compact whole, marked by Vertigo’s typical poetics, grace, and intensity. (Animal Music)
1CD# ANI107-2 $21.99
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 recording 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
Swiss Radio Days Jazz, V. 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 (according to Astor Piazzolla).” – Richard Galliano (TCB)
1CD# TCB 02472 $16.99
Double Vision, Triple Vision / Peter Scharli [2 CDs]
Three wonderful trumpeters from two generations get together to play, supported by a rhythm section that provides everything a soloist on stage needs to take off. The two concerts presented here are each the first of a longer series. The rhythm section sets the standard for what is to be played: standards, namely – swinging and contemporary jazz. (TCB)
2CD# TCB 37302 $19.99 Harmonic Alchemy / Reverso
Continuing a century of mutual inspiration between two vast and interlocking musical worlds, Reverso further explores the interface between jazz and classical music. This recording follows Suite Ravel, a first album inspired by the music of Maurice Ravel. Reverso blends ‘pulsating motifs, long painterly lines’ – JazzTimes (Outnote)
1CD# OTN645 $18.99
Clark Terry: Live in Holland 1979
Clark Terry is one of the greatest and most important trumpeters in jazz history. Now, Storyville Records presents a live recording with his fantastic orchestra, Clark Terry’s Big Bad Band – Live in Holland 1979. The whole band is in great form, and besides Clark Terry himself, this recording showcases many of the very best musicians from the heyday of big bands. (Storyville)
1CD# SVL1018529 $15.99
Duke Ellington: Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival
In 1969, the Berlin Jazz Fest took an audacious stand: it was Duke Ellington’s 70th birthday and not only did they welcome him at the head of his big band for the first time, but part of the program focused on his heritage; as a bonus and birthday gift, Ellington was featured on the publicity poster of the festival’s sixth edition. (TLR)
1CD# TLR 2204041 $16.99
NEW JAZZ IN BRIEF
Solo in Denmark / Michel Petrucciani
This album features French piano prodigy Michel Petrucciani in a solo recording from Silkeborg Church, 1990. (Storyville)
1CD# SVL1018495 $15.99
Jazzissimo / Matthias Well; Lilian Akopova
Violinist Matthias Well and pianist Lilian Akopova present syncopated, blue note-soaked sounds by Astor Piazzolla, Maurice Ravel, and George Gershwin. (Genuin)
1CD# GEN 22792 $18.99
State of Mind / Gilles Grethen Quartet & Strings
State of Mind is a bold undertaking, because on his second album after last year’s debut Time Suite, the quartet of the young Luxembourg guitarist Gilles Grethen linked up with eleven strings. (Double Moon)
1CD# DMCHR71414 $14.99
Within This Stone / Ziv Ravitz; Lionel Loueke
Within This Stone is the first live recording of the Ziv Ravitz and Lionel Loueke, captured on December 12, 2021 in the Swiss community of Muri. (Intuition)
