New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 19th April
It's vinyl fetish week here at Presto, with Matt getting all hot under the collar over Modern Times by Elliot Galvin, plus Sheila Jordan's breakthrough album seeing a release on the sticky stuff. Also, acoustic guitar duo Hands on Strings, Polly Gibbon's cool New York concert, rare Wes Montgomery and even Angélique Kidjo getting in under the jazz radar.
“What’s Kidjo doing on a jazz website?” I hear some of you groan, sitting there in your brown corduroy jackets, distressed arm patches flailing about in irritation. Well now, this tribute to Celia Cruz is an irresistible hybrid of salsa, carnival music, and yes, it is a bit jazzy… I Kidjo not. And if you haven’t experienced the album before this, where Kidjo reinterpreted Talking Heads Remain in Light please do so, post haste. It will add to your quality of life.
Available Format: CD
Finally - calling all vinyl freaks – gather round my sistren and brethren… a tasty vinyl issue of Sheila Jordan’s 1977 break-through album Sheila, her duo with bassist Arild Andersen. It’s staggering that her Blue Note debut Portrait of Shiela Jordan was released in 1963, and yet it took so long for her to get the recognition she deserved. Fans of eighties indie band Young Marble Giants or even The XX should find this rewarding, with the starkness of Jordan’s voice thrown into sharp relief by the stripped down solo bass accompaniment. It’s the sort of album that benefits from the comforting sound of a needle finding the groove before it commences, if you know what I mean.
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Matt Groom - Head of Jazz
