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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 14th February 2020
14th Feb 2020
New albums from pianist Aaron Diehl, drummer Trilok Gurtu, guitar legend Pat Metheny, fusion from Eric Vloeimans and a compilation of Maynard Ferguson live in the mid-seventies.
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Majid Bekkas - Magic Spirit Quartet
7th Feb 2020
Magic Spirit Quartet finds Majid Bekkas channelling the Gnawa music of his Moroccan homeland to create a powerful collision of world and jazz music.
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Magic Spirit Quartet
Magic Spirit Quartet
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 31st January 2020
31st Jan 2020
This week Matt enjoys two new recording from Losen Records, the debut album from a young German pianist who's clearly going to go places, a generous slice of aged trad-jazz, and a harp-bop rarity (no, that wasn't a typo).
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The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vols 1 & 2
31st Jan 2020
Take a trip into the Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, with this brand new issue of volumes 1 & 2 of these classic albums on one disc from the ezz-thetics label.
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Peter Beets & the Henk Meutgeert New Jazz Orchestra
24th Jan 2020
An impressive set from The Netherlands, with pianist Peter Beets and The Henk Meutgeert New Jazz Orchestra romping through dazzling arrangements of classical music and standards.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 15th January 2020
15th Jan 2020
With the post-Christmas lull clearing, Matt settles back and enjoys some of the jazz new releases, including a re-issue of a lesser-known Erroll Garner album.
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Dave Brubeck Quartet at Oberlin & Wilshire-Ebell
13th Jan 2020
Two classic Dave Brubeck Quartet concerts from 1953 find the pianist, with saxophonist Paul Desmond, forging the sound that would soon sell a million albums.
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At Oberlin & Wilshire-Ebell
Dave Brubeck Quartet
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Edmond Hall
10th Jan 2020
Clarinetist Edmond Hall is the focus of this week's Classic Album feature, a brilliant musician who managed to maintain a long and distinguished career through the changing stylistic tides of jazz.
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Downbeat Readers Poll 2019
23rd Dec 2019
The top 10 Albums of the Year as selected by Downbeat's readers.
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Nina Simone in Concert
13th Dec 2019
Nina Simone in Concert from 1964 stands as one of the most politically charged statements of the Civil Rights Movement, and a key album of Simone's career. From the perspective of late 2019 it stands as a timely warning of the dangers of complacency.
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Presto Jazz Albums of the Year 2019
4th Dec 2019
Matt has the enjoyable task of picking out his favourite jazz recordings of 2019, a year that saw the release of so many excellent releases. Feel free to get annoyed with his choices - that's the fun of lists after all!
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Kit Downes - Dreamlife of Debris
29th Nov 2019
Finding inspiration in W.G. Sebald's novel The Rings of Saturn, Kit Downes's second album for ECM demonstrates his unique approach to the church organ with a brilliantly atmospheric suite of pieces.
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Jazzwise Albums of the Year 2019
27th Nov 2019
Jazzwise reveal their favourite new albums of 2019 with a selection reflecting just how exciting the current jazz scene is, with newer artists vying with the old guard.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 22nd November, 2019
22nd Nov 2019
R&B blowers, avant-tunesmiths, Jazz Messengers, multi-instrumentalists and ambient noodlers all get attention in this week's round-up.
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Ornette Coleman
21st Nov 2019
Ornette Coleman's reputation as the man who broke jazz often gets in the way of some of the most celebratory music of any age, which continues to communicate 60 years on.
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Eri Yamamoto's Goshu Ondo Suite
15th Nov 2019
Composer/pianist Eri Yamamoto weaves magic in this choral jazz odyssey, drawing on the Japanese tradition of Goshu Ondo, the dance song, in a vivid collaboration between her trio and Choral Chameleon.
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Eri Yamamoto Trio & Choral Chameleon
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 15th November 2019
15th Nov 2019
New releases this week include albums from Terri Lyne Carrington, Emilia Martensson, Genzo Okabe and Craig Brann.
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Jeff Goldblum - I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This
8th Nov 2019
Jeff Goldblum's second album is an enjoyable romp through the standards, with a little help from his star-studded friends.
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Miles Davis - The Lost Quintet
6th Nov 2019
A rare recording of the short-lived 1969 Miles Davis Quintet that featured Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Wayne Shorter and Dave Holland, taking no prisoners on stage in Rotterdam.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 1st November 2019
1st Nov 2019
The week in jazz, from titans like Keith Jarrett and Bill Frisell to new artists like bassist Kinga Glyk.
