Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - June 2023
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the June 2023 issue include new music from ARTEMIS, Donny McCaslin, Joe Lovano, Magnus Öström, Snazzback, David Preston, Peter Brötzmann, Native Dancer and Brandee Younger, as well as an archive reissue from the Stan Tracey Quartet.
New Releases
"...closely evocative of earlier Blue Note eras [...] the future looks bright for an exciting group that promises much."
Available Format: Vinyl Record
"...a uniquely hard-hitting, direct, studio-driven recording that organically joins together elements from electronica, post-rock, jazz and improve more persuasively than perhaps anything before it."
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"This innovative ensemble [...] have been exploring a rich landscape of tone rows, ballad and blues phrasing, and glimpses of jazz grooves...
Available Format: Vinyl Record
"Easily the best album so far by Magnus Öström […] more to the point it's an album you want to play again, and again, and you can't ask much more than that."
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
"Preston's gift is to discover the right voice to fit the vibe of his composition [...] the resonances jigsaw together the chordal textures and the sense of storytelling that is deep in these different songs."
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
"Named after, and taking their inclusive musical aesthetic cue from, Wayne Shorter's genre-bending 1975 album, Native Dancer draw from a deep stylistic well which embraces everything from jazz and electronica to neo-soul and prog."
Available Format: Vinyl Record
"...Brandee Younger directly champions [Dorothy] Ashby's compositions on Brand New Life, placing previously unrecorded Ashby compositions alongside some of her own work, effortlessly travelling between past and present in the process."
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Reissues & Archive
"Ultimately, this album is, for many, Tracey's finest hour, the moment he wrote himself into the jazz history books with an album that has assumed a life of its own [...] and only the best manage that!"
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Barney Whittaker
