When my Producer and long-time friend Pat Philips Stratta called to tell me that I had received the 2023 Living Masters award from the SmallsLIVE Foundation, I felt so honored! I was particularly pleased because it also gave me the opportunity to play at Mezzrow for two nights and record an album in the afternoon of day three. For the first ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Trad Jazz
With her second album "Entre Las Flores", has Jeanne Michard established herself as the French tenor saxophonist to look out for. Since the release of her first album, Songes Transatlantiques, the saxophonist and composer, whose style has been inherited from American jazz legends such as Sonny Rollins and Gigi Gryce, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Bebop
Jazz From The Pacific Northwest (Live) (Remastered)
Jazz from The Pacific Northwest combines two previously unissued concert recordings from one of the greatest jazz drummers of all-time, Shelly Manne. The first recording features Monty Budwig on bass, Russ Freeman on piano, Stu Williamson on trumpet, and Herb Geller on ...
Composer: Shelly Manne (1920-1984)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
A Night At The Village Vanguard (The Complete Masters - Mono Remastered by Rudy Van Gelder)
Newly remastered! The mid-fifties was an astonishing period for this saxophone genius. And for all his great work in this era, this daring album and "Saxophone Colossus" remain his crowning achievements. With just bass (Wilbur Ware) and drums (Elvin Jones) in support, Rollins creates tenor saxophone improvisations of increible beauty and inexhaustible ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Groovy (Original Jazz Classics Series - Mono Remastered 2024)
Pianist Red Garland, the former boxer out of Texas who many would argue is still underrated (see his work, too, with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins), is joined here by drummer Art Taylor and bassist Paul Chamber. This is the trio’s third album together, released in 1957. Bouncy and dexterous Groovy, sits firmly in the bebop and hard-bop genre. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
A leading Norwegian bassist for over 30 years, ECM legend Arild Andersen forges promising relationships with two rising stars - Daniel Sommer (drums) and Rob Luft (guitar) in an expansive, playful exploration of song and collective improvisation. ‘As Time Passes’ is set to release on April 26th on April Records. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Silent, Listening is both a highly individual musical offering and an important contribution to ECM’s line of innovative solo piano recordings. It finds US pianist Fred Hersch, one of jazz’s most outstanding soloists, putting a poetic emphasis on alert, open improvisation while also embracing original compositions and a ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Salerno Concert (Live) (Remastered)
Reel To Real returns with more top notch live archival music from Bob Mover and Walter Davis Jr. Recorded in Salerno, the recording beautifully captures the short-lived duo association between two musical legends deserving greater attention. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Bebop
A fascinating paradox defines “Echoes Of The Inner Prophet”, Melissa Aldana’s follow-up to her acclaimed Blue Note Records debut as a leader, 2022’s “12 Stars”. As the GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist and composer explains, her new album reflects her “personal journey, with an especially introspective point of view. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Whether we are talking about gender, political, racial, cultural, economic status, or oceanic divides we are all closer than we think when gaining perspective on how similar we all are instead of hyper focusing on minute differences. For this record I chose a set of songs that I felt would speak to our core in a variety of ways as ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Detroit born Guitarist/Composer Dan Baraszu started playing guitar at the age of 9. Early in his career, he explored many different styles of music. However, when he first heard the genius of Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, Dan devoted himself to becoming a die-hard Jazz artist. His major influences include ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Elmo Hope Trio is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope recorded in 1959 and originally released on the Hifijazz label but rereleased on Contemporary Records. Overshadowed throughout his life by his friends Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, Elmo Hope was a talented pianist and composer whose life was cut short by drugs. His first important gig was with Joe Morris’ R&B ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Bebop
Call on the Old Wise is Nitai Hershkovits’ first record for ECM, presenting his powerful pianistic ingenuity in a largely improvised solo setting. Nitai’s improvisations unfold like compositions being created in real-time: “It’s like I’m playing with several periods of music at once, but in a sort of augmented-reality-environment,” ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Chicago Sound (Remastered 2023)
Ware is best known for his work with the Thelonious Monk quartet in 1957-58 and for his live recordings with the Sonny Rollins Trio at the Village Vanguard. Ware’s exceptional timing, economic placement of notes combined with an adroit use of space and time in ensemble playing with Monk was perfectly suited to the pianist’s music. Perhaps the best illustration of this is Ware’s inter-play with Monk on ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Arturo O’Farrill returns to his first love—the piano—on his remarkable new Blue Note album Legacies. Renowned as a composer, arranger, and bandleader, here the 8-time GRAMMY-winner puts the emphasis back on his striking pianistic abilities with a 9-song set that juxtaposes stunning solo piano flights and dynamic trio performances with O’Farrill ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Renowned Danish saxophonist Niels Vincentz and his trio set out in open terrain on Gravity, their second recording for SteepleChase. Inspired by the great "pianoless" jazz groups (Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Steve Lacy, Ornette Coleman), Vincentz is joined in his venture by two top drawer musicians - bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Billy Hart. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums (Remastered)
Newly remastered from the original analog tapes by Grammy-winning engineer (and former Contemporary Records studio employee) Bernie Grundman, the 20-track set presents two classic albums from the legendary saxophonist’s catalog: Way Out West (recorded in March 1957) and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Legendary bassist/composer Buster Williams celebrates 80 years (and counting) along a path to musical enlightenment on his stunning new album, UNALOME, featuring vocalist Jean Baylor, saxophonist Bruce Williams, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, pianist George Colligan, and drummer Lenny White. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Christian McBride's New Jawn Prime
Christian McBride's New Jawn — trumpeter Josh Evans (Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Rasheid Ali), saxophonist and bass clarinetist Marcus Strickland (Roy Haynes, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Chris Dave, Bilal, Robert Glasper), and drummer Nasheet Waits (Jason Moran, Joe Lovano, John Medeski) — is back with their highly anticipated sophomore album, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Sonny Rollins, one of the last living icons of modern jazz, was and is a role model for countless generations of saxophonists. This is also the case for Johannes Enders, one of the most important European voices on the tenor saxophone. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
