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Release date: 30 June ABSTRACT LOGIX
JOHN McLAUGHLIN Floating Point CD ABLX011
Guitar legend and composer John McLaughlin guitarist has appeared on some of the most important jazz fusion and world music albums in the last 40 years, from Tony Williams Lifetime and Miles Davis’s early electric albums to his own ground-breaking outfits, the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti. For ‘Floating Point’, which was recorded in India, McLaughlin used several of the best Indian musicians in the world. Together they have created a recording which McLaughlin describes as “Jazz fusion” with a “World” flavour and he goes on to say that it may be the best record he’s ever made.
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JOHN McLAUGHLIN Meeting of the Minds - The Making of Floating Point DVD ABLX012
This 80 minute film documents for the first time, what happens in a recording session by the guitar legend and composer John McLaughlin. Filmed over five days in a studio in India, you get an intimate view of the way great musicians work together and create new music with spontaneity and vitality. For this ‘meeting of the minds’, McLaughlin invited some of the most outstanding instrumentalists including keyboardist Louiz Banks, drummer Ranjit Barot, electric sitarist Niladri Kumar, flautists Shashank and Naveen Kumar, percussionist Sivamani, vocalist Shankar Mahadevan, electric mandolinist U.Rajesh, and Hindustini slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya.
Release date: 23 June LOST MARBLE
DJANGO BATES Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?) CD LM003
“Spring is Here (Shall We Dance)?” completes the pianist/composer Django Bates’s “Four Seasons”. After ‘Summer Fruits’, ‘Autumn Fires’ and ‘Winter Truce’, comes the earthy grooves, blatant simplicity, hidden complexity and sunny humour of ‘Spring is Here.’ The lively 10-track album of original compositions is the result of two years’ experimentation and exploration at Denmark’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory where Django is resident Professor. It features his new musical juggernaut stoRMChaser, a band made up of 19 rising stars on the Danish jazz scene, who rehearse with him every Friday.
Release date: 16 June AUDIO-B
ACOUSTIC TRIANGLE 3 Dimensions CD ABCD5024
Founded on a love of modern classical music, improvisation, and a passion for natural, un-amplified sound, leading bassist Malcolm Creese’s trio Acoustic Triangle successfully bridges the boundaries between the genres. Malcolm’s two long-term colleagues are Tim Garland, admired as one of the world’s finest saxophonists, and the extraordinary young pianist Gwilym Simcock. The trio’s material, composed by Garland and Simcock, reflects their commitment to exploring extended compositions with their own brand of improvisation.
Release date: 30 June RESTEAMED
BEN WEBSTER with STAN TRACEY Soho Nights Volume 1 CD RSJ106
Recorded live at Ronnie Scotts in 1968, this previously unreleased recording of the 'tenor giant' Ben Webster performing with Stan Tracey's 'in-house' trio of the time has been digitally re-mastered from the original reel tape. The superb quality recording perfectly captures the atmosphere of the club in 1968, including introductions by Ronnie Scott as MC
Release date: 30 June CHESKY (Hybrid SACD)
LARRY CORYELL ORGAN TRIO Impressions CD SACD337
This smoking organ trio recording is a first for guitarist Larry Coryell and a return to his roots. With the innovative young Hammond B-3 organist Sam Yahel and the versatile, reliably swinging drummer Paul Wertico, the guitar great breathes new life into six familiar jazz pieces, such as ‘Impressions’, ‘Come Rain or Come Shine’ and ‘"Embraceable You’ while also showcasing his inimitable fleet-fingered facility on three original compositions.
Release date: 23 June RED RAM RECORDS
SARAH MOULE A Lazy Kind of Love CD RAM001
Vocalist Sarah Moule is one of the UK's finest interpreters of modern song, and her new album is packed with surprising, intriguing and delightful songs delivered with insight, character and a seductive lightness of touch. The songs come from Beat Generation Survivor Fran Landesman and Simon Wallace, the controversial journalist Julie Burchill, writer and broadcaster Clive James and his longtime song-writing partner Pete Atkin, and composer/producer Joe Henry, plus a couple of standards. Featured musicians include Simon Wallace (piano), Alan Barnes (saxes) amd Mike Outram (guitar).
Release date: 23 June NAGEL HEYER
KEN PEPLOWSKI / JESPER THILO Happy Together CD NHCD097
This live recording features two leading jazz musicians, the American tenor saxophonist and clarinettist Ken Peplowski and the Danish tenor saxophonist and clarinettist Jesper Thilo. With Peplowski's and Thilo’s impeccable woodwind voices, an impressive band, and an appreciative audience, the stage is set for music that is classy, elegant, with just the right touch of swing and balladry.
Release date: 23 June TRIO RECORDS
CHRIS BISCOE QUARTET Gone In The Air - The Music of Eric Dolphy CD TR578
The latest release from Trio Records pays tribute to the music of Eric Dolphy with an album by four leading contemporary British musicians led by saxophonist Chris Biscoe. Released almost exactly 80 years to the day after his birth in 1928, ‘Gone In The Air’ documents the enormous influence that Dolphy had as a performer and composer on musicians throughout the world. As well as the leader, Biscoe, the quartet features alto saxophonuist Tony Kofi, bassist Larry Bartley and drummer Stu Butterfield.
Release date: 23 June WAVE
PETER IND Sixty Years With My Bass … Well, Almost! CD WAVECD22
The veteran bassist, and founder of Wave Records, Peter Ind celebrates his 80th birthday in 2008. Ind lived in the USA in the 1950s, studying and playing with Lennie Tristano and on his return to the UK founded the Bass Clef club, which played a crucial role in the London jazz scene of the ‘80s and ‘90s. This new release features tracks from a solo concert by Ind recorded at Berkeley in California in 1965 as well as duos and trios with guitarist Tony Barnard and saxophonist Matt Wates.
DISTRICT SIX Leave My Name At The Door CD WAVECD29
First time on CD for this live session recorded at the Bass Clef club in 1985 by District Six. This popular band featured South African-born musicians exiled in London, including Jim Dvorak, Mervyn Africa, and Brian Ab rahams who provided a great display of township-influenced jazz.
MATT ROSS / EDDIE THOMPSON Beauty and the Beat CD WAVECD19
First time on CD for this 1983 piano duo recording by two leading British jazz pianist, Matt Ross and Eddie Thompson, who perform a set of popular jazz standards. Matt Ross was well-known on the London jazz scene in the 1980s and Eddie Thompson, who died in 1986, was a talented musician who made a name for himself on both sides of the Atlantic.
DUKE JORDAN Live At The Bass Clef CD WAVECD20
First time on CD for this 1990 live session recorded at London’s Bass Clef club by the legendary jazz pianist Duke Jordan who played piano for Charlie Parker in the 1940s. With Peter Ind on bass and Mark Taylor on drums, Jordan performs a set of jazz standards, including his own classic composition, “Jordu”.
NEW PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA Music of the Roaring Twenties CD WAVECD27
First time on CD for this live 1975 concert recording by the New Paul Whiteman Orchestra whose personnel included leading American and British musicians including Richard Sudhalter, Nat Peck, Keith Nicholls, Harry Gold, Peter Ind, John R.T. Davies, Chris Ellis and Duncan Campbell. The band performs music associated with the ‘King of Jazz’ Paul Whiteman from the original scores.
Release date: 30 June TIMELESS HISTORICAL
PAUL WHITEMAN King Of Jazz - 1920-1927 CD CBC1093
25 tracks by the bandleader Paul Whiteman who was one of the most interesting figures in American music during the first half of the 20th century. His band performed and recorded just about every popular song title in the 1920s (including the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue) and it included major jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke and Jack Teagarden.
Release date: 26 May JMS - DVD
HENRI TEXIER Strada Sextet DVD JMS0965
This 78 minute DVD captures the leading French bassist and composer Henri Texier with his acclaimed group, the Strada Sextet. On this recording of a live concert the Strada Sextet performs extended versions of 3 tracks from its most recent recording, “Alerte a l’eau”. The bonus feature is a concert recording of a suite in four parts.
Release date: 26 May EDITION RECORDS
DAVE STAPLETON / MATTHEW BOURNE Dismantling The Waterfall CD EDN1001
Pianist/composers Dave Stapleton and Matthew Bourne are musicians of catholic tastes, who move effortlessly between improvised and composed music regardless of genre or era. “Dismantling The Waterfall” is a duo recording of short, breath-taking improvisations, seventeen episodic tracks all linked by a seventeen-line poem by Julie Tippetts where each line provides a title. ‘Dismantling the Waterfall’ is a meeting of musical minds and improvisational values and a matter of light and shade, showcasing two of Europe’s finest young improvisers.
Release date: 26 May CHESKY - HYBRID SACD
MONTY ALEXANDER The Good Life HSACD SACD340
The latest recording by the Jamaica-born pianist Monty Alexander Trio is a brilliant interpretation of a collection of Tony Bennett classics, including "The Way You Look Tonight," "Because of You", “The Good Life” and many more.
Release date: 26 May INTUITION
JIM BEARD with VINCE MENDOZA & THE METROPOLE ORCHESTRA
Revolutions (Hybrid SACD) HSACD INT34182
Pianist Jim Beard’s latest recording is an ambitious orchestral project, on which he revisits some of his recent compositions with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orchestra, under the direction of conductor-arranger and 2008 Grammy Winner (Best Arrangement) Vince Mendoza. As well as being an in-demand sideman with the likes of Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Mike Stern, Bob Berg and the Brecker Brothers. Beard is a leader in his own right who has distinguished himself as an accomplished composer, as these greatly expanded renditions demonstrate.
JOEL HARRISON The Wheel CD INT34262
‘The Wheel’, features a five-part suite composed by the American guitarist and composer Joel Harrison for a classical string quartet and a jazz quartet featuring saxophonist David Binney and trumpeter Ralph Alessi, He brings out the unique aspects of the two quartets and integrates them creating a coherent and powerful piece of contemporary music.
Release date: 19 May CRAMMED
LONELY DRIFTER KAREN Grass Is Singing CD CRAM132
Lonely Drifter Karen revolves around the Austrian singer and songwriter Tanja Frinta whose music has its roots in folk music, German cabaret and even punk rock. The group is completed with the Mallorca-born pianist and arranger Marc Meliá Sobrevias and Italian drummer Giorgio Menossi. A captivating voice, a fiery piano, a gentle acoustic guitar drifting into an expressionist cabaret, quirky melodies, emotion and magic: this is the unique world of Lonely Drifter Karen.
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FREDDIE HUBBARD & THE NEW On The Real Side CD FQTCD1810 
