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Release date: 25 August CHALLENGE
ENRICO PIERANUNZI & MARC JOHNSON Yellow & Blue Suites CD CHR70131
This live recording from Lausanne, Switzerland in 1990 by pianist Enrico Pieranunzi and bassist Marc Johnson is finally being released on CD. A superb post-bop pianist, Pieranunzi is one of the top jazz pianists in Europe and this duo recording features an improvised concert performance with two suites offering a mix of standards, treated in a very flexible way, alternating with spontaneously created interludes.
ERIC VLOEIMAN'S GATECRASH Hyper CD CHR70144
Trumpeter Eric Vloeimans is one of Holland’s leading jazz musicians. In 2006 he decided to experiment with electronic music forming his ‘Gatecrash’ band with keyboardist Jeroen van Vliet, bassist Gulli Gudmundsson and drummer Jasper van Hulten. The first part of this live concert recording was released last year to great acclaim and now come seven further tracks.
MARTIN WIND QUARTET Salt 'n' Pepper CD CR73272
Bassist Martin Wind, who is now resident in New York, is joined by three mainstays on the New York jazz scene – saxophonist Scott Robinson, pianist Bill Cunliffe and drummer Greg Hutchinson. They perform a selection of of originals by Wind as well as rendering some beautiful interpretations of classics by Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and Duke Ellington.
BUCKY & JOHN PIZZARELLI Live At The Vineyard CD CHR70025
Reissue of a 1987 concert by the veteran guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and his son, the guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli, recorded live at the Vineyard Theatre, New York City. Since this was recorded John Pizzarelli has won international acclaim for his recordings for the BMG and Telarc labels.
Release date: 18 August EDITION RECORDS
BOURNE / DAVIS / KANE Lost Something CD EDN1003
‘Lost Something’ brings together three leading young British jazz musicians – pianist Matthew Bourne, bassist Dave Kane and drummer Steven Davis. Compositional duties fall to Davis and Kane on a set that mixes four originals with four pieces from other composers – Annette Peacock, Carla Bley, Thelonious Monk and John Surman. This is music made with both wit and intelligence and heart and soul and the group’s performance explodes all conventional notions of the Jazz trio as just ‘a soloist plus rhythm’.
Release date: 25 August NAGEL HEYER
DONALD HARRISON The Chosen CD NHCD2084
Alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, one of the USA’s leading jazz musicians, returned to his hometown of New Orleans to make this new recording with three capable, young newcomers. Mixing bebop, hardbop, swing and New Orleans R & B, he uses his extensive experience to forge these influences into a uniquely personal style.
Release date: 25 August MEANTIME
KARIN KROG Oslo Calling CD MR14
After many years working together as a musical team, comes the long-awaited album with the Norwegian jazz vocalist Karin Krog and her regular accompanying trio 'The Meantimes'. Joining them are guest soloists John Surman, Jan-Erik Kongshaug, Roy Nikolaisen and Frode Nymo , in a collection which mixes standards and original compositions interpreted in Krog’s own inimitable vocal style.
Release date: 28 July 33 JAZZ
JOHN LAW The Ghost in the Oak CD 33JAZZ176
The Ghost in the Oak is Volume 2 of a planned four volume series of works recorded by pianist John Law at the famous Artesuono
Studio in Italy. Volume 1, a trio recording, received widespread critical acclaim on its release and has become an internationally successful album. Volumes 2 features Law’s solo piano work as he explores multilayered textures, often sounding as if two pianists are at work!
HANS KOLLER Mond & Sternlein CD 33JAZZ178
The latest release by the German pianist Hans Koller is a wonderful album of arrangements of old German folk songs plus three original pieces for string quartet. The trio features the talents of bassist Mark Hodgson and the world renowned percussionist Paul Clarvis and a string quartet (on three tracks) led by Sonia Slany. Together they have produced an album of gentle and highly rewarding arrangements of material which will have wide appeal.
Release date: 25 August JAZZ ACADEMY
MICHAEL GARRICK TRIO Introducing Mick Garrett CD JAZA16
This collection of previously unreleased live recordings from the ‘70s & ‘80s features the veteran jazz pianist Michael Garrick who’s been going through a revival due to the interest in British jazz led by Gilles Peterson with his ‘Impressed’ compilations. Garrick performs a set of familiar standards, plus 2 originals, at various locations, with stellar support from bassists Dave Green and Paul Moylan and drummers Trevor Tomkins and Alan Jackson.
Release date: 25 August ABSTRACT LOGIX
PAUL HANSON Frolic in the Land of Plenty CD ABLX009
This innovative album by bassoonist Paul Hanson re-defines the role of his chosen instrument – previously almost exclusively associated with classical music. By electrifying his double reed instrument and incorporating elements of bebop, fusion, Bulgarian, ambient and rock-fuelled grunge, Hanson pushes the envelope on what his notoriously unwieldy instrument can do. He’s joined by an all-star line-up including Dennis Chambers on drums, violinist Tracy Silverman and keyboardist Eric Levy. This is earth-shaking stuff by a musical renegade who is clearly forging a new path on a most unusual instrument.
ALEX MACHACEK Improvision CD ABLX007
This formidable power trio of Austrian guitarist Alex Machacek, 5-string electric bassist Matthew Garrison and drummer Jeff Sipe is impossibly intense, dripping with staggering virtuosity and fertile ideas and seething with the kind of raucous improvisational abandon that hasn’t been seen since the heyday of Tribal Tech. For fans of acknowledged guitar monsters like Allan Holdsworth and Scott Henderson, the opening track of their new album says it all: "There’s A New Sheriff In Town."
GARY WILLIS Actual Fiction CD ABLX006
Joining the world-class electric bassist Gary Willis on this ambitious avant-groove outing is his long-time band-mate in Tribal Tech, drummer Kirk Covington along with drummer David Gomez. Willis’s innovative playing and compositions span a wide range of musical styles and influences from drum’n’bass to funky groove-based outings, melodic ballads on the fretless bass and hard-hitting fusion.
Release date: 25 August MACK AVENUE
HOT CLUB OF DETROIT Night Town CD MAC1041
More than seven decades after the innovations of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, the Hot Club of Detroit updates the ‘Hot Club’ sound with a line-up featuring saxophone and accordion. ‘Night Town’, their second release, showcases the band’s maturity, virtuosity and musical growth. While remaining true to their ‘Gypsy Roots’ it draws on deeper and wider influences, drawing inspiration from the clubs of New Orleans as well as the free-wheeling music of Miles Davis.
Release date: 25 August RETRIEVAL
BING CROSBY Jazz Singer 1931-1941 CD RTR79054
Bing Crosby was a versatile vocalist performing just about every type of popular song, but his own great love was jazz of the pre-bop era. The 24 rare tracks feature Crosby with Connie Boswell, the Mills Brothers, Bob Crosby and his Orchestra, Eddie Lang, Lennie Hayton, Joe Sullivan and Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey.
VARIOUS ARTISTS Jazz Goes Hawaiian CD RTR79037
This 24 track compilation features jazz musicians playing Hawaiian tunes together with Hawaiians playing jazz. With such stellar names as Louis Armstrong, Mannie Klein, Red Nichols and Andy Iona, this is a fascinating look at one of the less explored sidelines of jazz. Most of this material is very rare in its original form and much sought after. This collection should appeal to any collector of the unusual.
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