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Blue Notes in Block Quotes: Highlights from the Tone Poet Series
1st Nov 2023
We unpack the latest boutique vinyl offerings from Blue Note Records' Tone Poet Series, including some which may have slipped under your radar.
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corto.alto - Bad With Names
27th Oct 2023
The young Scottish newcomer hits it out of the park with his brilliantly fresh debut record that features some of Glasgow's finest players.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 27th October, 2023
27th Oct 2023
This week's round-up includes new music from sound experimentalist Matana Roberts, Brazilian vocalist Dora Morelenbaum, Japanese ensemble leader Miho Hazama, Swedish trumpeter Karl Wallmyr and the exciting singer Martina DaSilva.
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Impulse! Records, 'Irrepressible Impulses'
25th Oct 2023
What started life as a promotional label sampler featuring cuts from Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane and Archie Shepp has turned into a fascinating musical document of an industry and musical scene in flux.
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Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter - SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree
20th Oct 2023
Elling and Hunter reprise their immaculate partnership for this funky elixir of an album, reigniting their untouchable groove as they showcase tunes from Joni Mitchell and Ornette Coleman.
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 20th October, 2023
20th Oct 2023
This week's Round-up includes new Scandinavian jazz from Denmark and Norway, some experimental inventiveness from down under plus the vocal stylings of lauded newcomers alongside old masters.
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Carla Bley (1936-2023)
19th Oct 2023
The American jazz pianist and composer, best known for the opera Escalator Over The Hill as well as her widely-recorded songbook, has died aged 87.
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Ivo Neame's Joy of Piano
18th Oct 2023
The British pianist sits down to discuss Phronesis, the differences he finds playing across Europe as well as his recent decision to go solo on his latest album, Live At Turner Sims.
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Hiromi - Sonicwonderland
13th Oct 2023
The Japanese piano princess stuns with her impressive and down-to-earth new group, straddling both electric and acoustic worlds with equal fervour and technical skill.
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 13th October, 2023
13th Oct 2023
This week's collection of new music features such diverse artists as Allison Russell, the folk musician Sinikka Langeland and desert blues star, Bombino. Helge Lien offers jazzier cuts along with the promising young talent of Noah Franche-Nolan.
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Around the World in Eighty Plays with Sven Wunder
11th Oct 2023
With the release of his fourth album in as many years, we take a look at the various influences behind the Swedish multi-instrumentalist and composer as well as uncovering how he crafts them into organic studio magic.
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Espen Eriksen Trio with Andy Sheppard - As Good As It Gets
6th Oct 2023
This warmly reliable quartet continues to expand, with the synergy between the core trio and its regular addition of saxophonist Sheppard having cemented itself as one of jazz's strongest working relationships around.
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 6th October, 2023
6th Oct 2023
This week's round-up includes new music from S. Carey & John Raymond, Maciej Obara and the maximalist stylings of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society. Aaron Diehl & The Knights Orchestra honour Mary Lou Williams plus a milestone achievement from Eddie Henderson.
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Solo Piano Music on ECM
4th Oct 2023
Take a deep dive with us as we explore both classic and more recent recordings that feature such artists from this mighty oeuvre as Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley and Marilyn Crispell.
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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - October 2023
2nd Oct 2023
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the October 2023 issue include new music from Balimaya Project, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Jaimie Branch, Matthew Halsall, Matana Roberts and Shear Brass, plus a series of reissues from Jean-Luc Ponty.
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Wolfgang Muthspiel - Dance of the Elders
29th Sep 2023
The Austrian guitarist's sophomore outing with previous sidemen Scott Colley and Brian Blade proves to be a winning formula in this symmetrical slice of electric and acoustic enchantment.
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 29th September
29th Sep 2023
Our round-up this week sees the release of Yussef Daye's long-awaited debut plus a first from Sean Mason, followed by a tribute to Mahalia Jackson from James Brandon Lewis and a welcome return from Joel Haynes, topped off with some experimental folk courtesy of Ellie Wilson.
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Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage
27th Sep 2023
The late French arranger's jazz-funk score for this psychedelic cult classic is as fantastic and trippy as the animated film itself.
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Joshua Redman - where are we
22nd Sep 2023
For his latest album, the American saxman seeks to refine our understanding of our own place and surroundings in a compelling thematic journey across the United States.
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 22nd September, 2023
22nd Sep 2023
This week's round-up includes new music from Ian Shaw, Alf Carlsson, Yuri Honing, Vetle Skåli and Hedvig Mollestad.
