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Following the success of 2011's It Happens Quietly, which received widespread critical acclaim and topped jazz charts around the world, the award-winning vocalist Jacqui Dankworth releases her new album Live To Love. Whilst It Happens Quietly tipped its hat to the past with interpretations of...
Everything We Hold, is an album that revels in its distinctiveness. Kairos 4tet, fronted by saxophonist and composer Adam Waldmann, are fast becoming a cornerstone of the British jazz scene. They spearhead a new breed of ensembles - bridging the gap between classic and contemporary; the jazz idiom...
Tabula Rasa The Guardian once commented that "Empirical have become fascinating and fearless" and their fourth album Tabula Rasa is evidence that this is still very much the case. Never a band to shy away from taking risks, Tabula Rasa is a double album and marks yet another new direction from the...
Refractions is the first outing on Rattle Jazz from Wellington-‐based guitarist/composer, Nick Granville, here joined by the Auckland dream-‐team of Roger Manins (sax), Olivier Holland (bass) and Ron Samsom (drums). All of the tunes for this album were the result of Nick's study of (and respect...
The Brad Dutz Quartet first performed at a New Music Festival at the REDCAT in 2005. The original impetus was to form an acoustic, jazz-tinged chamber ensemble capable of producing a wide range of textures and colours. Given the unusual combination of instruments within the ensemble, there are very...
Trumpeter Alexis French celebrates his debut with the stellar album The Cut. Recorded at McGill University's MMR and Studio A in Montreal, Canada, the album features rising stars of the Montreal jazz scene, David Bellemare (tenor sax), Nicolas Ferron (guitar), Nicolas Bedard (bass) and NZ ex-pat...
yeahyeahabsolutelynoway! is an Adelaide-based jazz trio comprised of two guitars and drums. The group write and perform contemporary jazz that is firmly and affectionately rooted in 70's fusion. Their genre-bending style brings together elements from the jazz tradition with tinges of rock and...
Two albums by the acclaimed Brazilian singer, composer and guitarist, originally recorded for A&M and CTI Records in the early 1970s ‘Stone Flower' has Hubert Laws, Joe Farrell and Ron Carter, amongst others, accompanying Jobim Antonio Carlos Jobim will, of course, always be best known as the...
• Four albums by acclaimed jazz pianist Lewis, recorded in 1973 and 1974 • Three made the US Top 200 albums • ‘Golden Hits' is a re-recording of his Chess label hits, and ‘Sun Goddess' spawned the Top 50 hits ‘Hot Dawgit' and ‘Sun Goddess' • Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with extensive...
All music composed by Katalyst, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad unless otherwise noted; produced, recorded and mixed by Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad at Linear Labs Studios, Los Angeles, CA. Mastered by Dave Cooley for Elysian Masters. Executive Produced by Andrew Lojero. Associate...
With Jazz Is Dead Series 2, Younge and Muhammad have once again, together with a roster of world-renowned legends, crate digger patron saints, and an exciting vanguard of young talent, delivered another unimpeachable collection of fresh and captivating recordings inspired by jazz's past, present,...
US based Finnish pianist Anni Kiviniemi debuts her trio featuring bassist Eero Tikkanen and drummer Hans Hulbaekmo (from Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra and Moskus). The new album "Eir", out on We Jazz Records 12 Jan 2024, is an introspective, moody, yet swinging trio set comprising of 8...
For more than two decades, the disciple that has most visibly carried on Sun Ra Arkestra's legacy and sound is their musical director, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, the iconic fire breather and life force that restored the Arkestra's vitality in the massive vacuum left by Ra and John Gilmore's...
Resonator is the new album from NZ jazz drummer Reuben Bradley, released by Rattle Jazz. More than just a modern jazz album, Resonator references the jazz tradition while pursuing an array of rhythms & textures unique to Bradley's eclectic musical personality. The result is an album of rich musical...
With a voice that has stopped critics in their tracks, Lady Blackbird is a revelatory new talent with music that transcends the jazz scene through which the LA-based artist is rooted. Reflecting influences as varied as Billie Holiday, Gladys Knight, Tina Turner, and Chaka Khan, with critics drawing...
This live solo album features the pianist and composer's interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one by George Harrison. Although other Beatles songs have long been staples of Mehldau's solo and trio shows, he had not previously recorded any of the tunes on Your Mother...
Composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey continues her story by writing and recording Bewitched, her second album. Inspired by jazz greats and classical masters while possessing a point of view that could only be conveyed by a 21st-century twentysomething, Bewitched represents...