New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 3rd February 2022
The latest jazz releases include clarinetist Kinan Azmeh with the NDR Bigband, old-school piano and vocal jazz from Savant, and Japanese free jazz reissues from No Business.
Damascus-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, praised by the New Yorker and New York Times, releases his latest album of original works arranged by Wolf Kerschek and performed by the NDR Bigband.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
Discus label boss Martin Archer's latest recording presents a free jazz trio recording alongside bassist Michael Bardon and drummer Walt Shaw, the three playing off abstract graphic scores for some freely-improvised goodness.
Available Format: CD
Another new Discus recording, this time the new band from drummer and composer Mark Holub, 'Anthropods' - featuring compositions that range from groove-based avant-garde to freeform atmospheric tracks.
Available Format: CD
A new addition to the Savant catalogue that seeks to be an antidote for the current times, A Change Is Gonna Come features seven O'Connell originals, as well as Coltrane and Sam Cooke tunes as well as 'My Foolish Heart'.
Available Format: CD
Another new Savant release, this time from baritone jazz vocalist Giacomo Gates and featuring tunes by Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Carl Fischer among others - the catch here is that all of the songs are about "you".
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
A "new" archival recording on No Business Records, saxophonist Mototeru Takagi performs in his quartet a set of improvised free jazz, live from the Little John jazz club in Yokohama.
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Another No Business archival release of Japanese free jazz, Oki's quartet recording from 1975 is slightly less impenetrable than the aforementioned Takagi.
Available Format: Vinyl Record
The sixth edition of the Matchbox Bluesmaster series, featuring cuts from classic Memphis and Mississippi blues players from the 1920s and early '30s.
Available Formats: 6 CDs, MP3, FLAC
Joshua Lee - Jazz Content
