New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 2nd February 2023
The latest jazz releases for this week include new ECM albums by Stephan Micus and the duo of Anders Jormin & Lena Willemark, guitarist Mikkel Ploug's group featuring saxophonist Mark Turner, and Joe Chambers' third album as bandleader on Blue Note. Also new this week is James Brandon Lewis' debut on ANTI-, a new quartet album by drummer Enzo Zirilli, and Jim Snidero featuring Kurt Rosenwinkel.
Multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus' latest album - and 25th solo recording for ECM - is centred around musings on thunder gods throughout numerous world mythologies, with the recording dominated by the dung chen, a four-metre Tibetan trumpet and recent addition to Micus' large collection of instruments.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
A musical partnership dating back almost two decades, singer/violinist/violist Lena Willemark and bassist Anders Jormin expand their group's lineup to include koto player Karin Nakagawa - who played with the duo on their 2015 project Trees of Light - and drummer Jon Fält, a comrade of Anders' from the Bobo Stenson Trio. Pasado en Claro showcases the quartet's improvisational talents set to texts from ancient China and Japan, Renaissance Italy, and contemporary Scandinavian and Mexican poetry.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Another longtime collaboration makes an appearance on Nocturnes, the new album by the Mikkel Ploug Group featuring saxophonist Mark Turner. For this new recording Ploug offers new original compositions as well as the music of Danish composers Bent Sorensen and Carl Nielsen, on what he calls a "dreamlike, floating atmosphere".
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Drummer, percussionist, vibraphonist and composer Joe Chambers releases his 3rd album as bandleader on Blue Note - though his history with the label spans decades of recordings with Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter and Andrew Hill to name a few. Dance Kobina explores the connections between jazz, South American and African Music.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
New York saxophonist James Brandon Lewis' latest album is his first on acclaimed label ANTI-, and sees Lewis further exploring the spiritual sounds that won him praise from Sonny Rollins, bringing along sounds from heavy rock and dense electronica.
Available Format: CD
The third album from Italian-born/formerly London-based drummer Enzo Zirilli's 'Zirobop' band features Zirilli's regular bandmates Rob Luft and Alessandro Chiapetta on guitar and bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado, continuing the concept of what Zirilli calls "playing at 360 degrees" and mixing in influences from Indian and South African traditional music.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Saxophonist Jim Snidero's latest recording has him backed up by Orrin Evans, Peter Washington and Joe Farnsworth, as well as featuring the esteemed guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel in a guest appearance, on a set of originals exploring the sounds of swing, Latin and European music. Also included are interpretations of Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'It Might as Well Be Spring' and McCoy Tyner's 'Search for Peace'.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Joshua Lee - Jazz Content
