New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 8th September 2022
The latest crop of new jazz releases include an album of duos by Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch on ECM, a quartet album featuring Joshua Redman's now reunited 1990s quartet - featuring Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade - and Wayne Shorter at the Detroit Jazz Festival alongside Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese and Esperanza Spalding. Also featured is saxophonist J.D. Allen delving into the legacy of blues music with his usual bandmates Gregg August and Rudy Royston with newcomer Charlie Hunter, and a previously limited-run Tony Williams trio album from the 1980s.
This new ECM release features the meeting of two prominent jazzmen - Italian flugelhornist Enrico Rava, who is almost 50 years into his time with ECM, and American pianist Fred Hersch, with The Song Is You marking the latter's first release on the label. This duo session features improvisations, Rava and Hersch originals, and standards by Thelonious Monk, Jerome Kern and Antônio Carlos Jobim.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The members of Joshua Redman's 1990s quartet, featuring the saxophonist with pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, follow-up their 2020 reunion album RoundAgain with an album of six original tunes by Redman.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival
Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese & Esperanza Spalding
Originally recorded in 2017 at the Detroid Jazz Festival, this record sees the esteemed Wayne Shorter in a quartet featuring Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese & Esperanza Spalding, all of them great leaders in their own right, including tribute to the late Geri Allen with interpretations of some of her pieces.
Available Format: CD
Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival
Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese & Esperanza Spalding
Available Format: 2 Vinyl Records
J.D. Allen continues the saxophonist's exploration into the legacy of blues music with long-time bandmates Gregg August and Rudy Royston, while also bringing on-board funk guitar virtuoso Charlie Hunter.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
This long-lost trio recording by drummer Tony Williams was originally released in the 1980s as a limited run of 500 copies; recorded with keyboardist Tom Grant and bassist Patrick O'Hearn, Play or Die enjoys a reissue with remastered audio this week.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
Joshua Lee - Jazz Content
