Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the August 2023 issue include new music from Uriel Herman, Andy Emler Megaoctet, Joachim Kühn New Trio, Mark Lewandowski and Zoe Rahman. As far as reissues are concerned, there are two new releases from ECM's Luminessence series, courtesy of Old and New Dreams and Gary Burton, plus the archival box-set of Way Out West-era Sonny Rollins recordings.
No Rush!
Andy Emler Megaoctet
“There’s a keen sense that [Elmer] writes to the strengths of the ensemble members while his own piano contributions are more diffidently deployed to bring the whole together […] A project that knows exactly where it is going.”
Available format: CD
Komeda - Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic Xiv
Joachim Kühn New Trio
“Kühn is both calm and majestic [...] This certainly numbers among the more stirring tributes to Komeda.”
Available format: CD
A Bouquet (for Lady Day)
Mark Lewandowski
“[Bassist Liam] Noble is on fine form throughout, his depth, subtlety and range always deployed in the service of the music: Lewandowski impresses with his chops and musicality [...] Masterly.”
Available format: CD
Colour of Sound
Zoe Rahman
“Some two decades after her auspicious debut The Cynic, British pianist Zoe Rahman emphatically fulfils the considerable potential that was all too clear at that first stage of her development.”
Available format: CD
Archive & Reissues
Available format: Download & Streaming (up to 96 kHz, 24 bit)
The New Quartet
Gary Burton
“... a much-overlooked album that remains a classy offering 50 years after it was recorded.”
Available format: Vinyl Record
Available formats: CD, Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
Go West!: the Contemporary Records Albums
Sonny Rollins
“If you sometimes think it might be a tad overrated - given the amount of equally fantastic stuff that Sonny recorded during 1956-58 - another listen is enough to get you excited all over again [...] if you don’t know this music already, now’s the time to find out.”
Available formats: 3 CDs, Download & Streaming (up to 192 kHz, 24 bit)
