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1st September 2023

New Release Round-up, Jazz New Release Round-up - 1st September, 2023

by Barney Whittaker
Cautious Clay (Image: Leeor Wild)
Cautious Clay (Image: Leeor Wild)
September is here, bringing with it a tonne of hot new releases! Starting things off, there's Karpeh from Cautious Clay, followed by Morton Georg Gisvermik with Dunes At Night. There's Dark Night, Bright Stars from Sharon Minemoto, Brandon Sanders presents Compton's Finest and Love & Life is the new EP release from Chip Wickham. 
Karpeh

Karpeh

Cautious Clay

From the ambitious young Clevelander comes a revelatory new album exploring themes of family lineage and personal identity. Arriving at the vibrant intersection of contemporary R&B and jazz, and with a host of stellar musicians featured throughout the record, Karpeh is a fiery yet touching feat of imagination.

Available Format: CD

Karpeh

Karpeh

Available Format: Vinyl Record

Dunes At Night

Dunes At Night

Morton Georg Gisvermik

With the aim of mirroring a cinematic experience, this album is a wonderful piece of Nordic storytelling through the idiom of music. As adventurous as they come, Gisvermik draws on elements of film scoring, classical, jazz and progressive inspiration to bring his wintry soundboard to life.

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC

Dark Night, Bright Stars

Dark Night, Bright Stars

Sharon Minemoto

Minemoto, a pianist's pianist, revels here as she delivers an album of lyrical grace and poise along with her quartet. The tunes are memorable and straight-ahead, and there is a veritable feeling of enjoyment that runs throughout the whole piece.

Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC

Compton's Finest

Compton's Finest

Brandon Sanders

Drummer Sanders steps up for the first studio foray under his own name in his three-decade career, and you can sense his readiness to serve along with his polished ensemble. Presto favourite, Jazzmeia Horn, is on ripping form for two beguiling vocal covers — 'In A Sentimental Mood' and 'I Can't Help It' from Michael Jackson's Off The Wall.

Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC

Love & Life

Love & Life

Chip Wickham

One of the biggest and best names on the British scene at this current moment, Wickham is best known for the cool musicianship he brings to each of his nourishing releases. Following Cloud 10, his first release with Gondwana Records last year, he returns with a four-track EP which builds on the sublime momentum of that previous album for a superb set of spiritual magic.

Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC

Barney Whittaker

Hailing from Warwickshire, Barney is a twenty-something musician with a burning passion for sounds that entice as well as grooves that swing. He undertook a BA English Language & Linguistics at King's College London, graduating in 2022. Having promoted jazz and folk artists and performers throughout the West Midlands and the Greater Manchester area, he now sings on Sundays in a church choir, plays double bass to anyone that’ll listen, and occasionally might bring out an Irish reel on the mandolin - but not without warning. He can also speak some French, if you ask nicely. Performing has dragged him from his humble beginnings in cosy local pubs to the prodigious stage of the Royal Albert Hall, and all the way back again. This is his first editorial role and he looks forward, with the help of everyone at Presto Music, to discovering the perfect beat.

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