New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 15th December 2022
The latest crop of jazz releases include an archival live recording of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers from 1962 featuring Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter and Freddie Hubbard, as well as a new recording by saxophonist Anthony Ferrara, both out tomorrow on SteepleChase. The latest album from Jazz Is Dead featuring Garrett Saracho drops this week on both black and orange colour vinyl, and reissues by Thelonious Monk and Benny Carter are also amongst the new releasees.
Playing with a hand-picked group of regular bandmates, saxophonist Houston Person's Reminiscing at Rudy's is an homage to his favourite engineer, the well-known Rudy Van Gelder, and features a variety of tunes from slow-paced ballads, blues numbers and up-tempo takes on old classics like 'Moon River'.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
This 1962 recording of the Jazz Messengers performing in Copenhagen was made shortly after the group expanded to a sextet with the addition of trombonist Curtis Fuller, who joins Wayne Shorter and Freddie Hubbard on the front-line horns.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
American saxophonist Anthony Ferrara's latest recording on Steeplechase has him working with his 'dream quartet' featuring pianist Gary Versace, bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Billy Drummond.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
The latest in Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's Jazz Is Dead series sees the duo bringing on-board Chicano-jazz composer and instrumentalist Garrett Saracho, who recently enjoyed a resurgence of interest online in his out-of-print record En Medio, for his first recorded music in decades. Garrett Saracho JID15 releases this week on vinyl.
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Reissued this week both digitally and on vinyl, saxophonist Benny Carter's album Jazz Giant was originally released on Contemporary Records back in 1958, and features contributions from Ben Webster, Frank Rosolino and Barney Kessel.
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
This re-release of Thelonious Monk's set at the Five Spot in 1958 features the pianist playing alongside Johnny Griffin, one of many saxophonists to play with Monk over the years. This Ezzthetics reissue features recordings taken from both albums Thelonious In Action and Misterioso, originally released on Prestige back in 1958.
Available Format: CD
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