New Listening – September 2019

Music added to my playlists this month

Iiro Rantala – My Finnish Calendar (2019) ACT Music + Vision

Eliane Elias - Love Stories (2019) Concord Jazz

Al Foster – Inspirations & Dedications (2019) Smoke Sessions

Exoterm – Exits into a Corridor (2019) Hubro

James Carter Organ Trio – Live from Newport Jazz (2019) Blue Note

Yimba Rudo – Yimba Rudo (2019) Self released

Miguel Zenón – Sonero_ The Music of Ismael Rivera (2019) Miel Music

Jason Palmer – Rhyme and Reason (2019) Giant Step Arts

Rob Cope – Gods of Apollo (2019) Ubuntu Music

Tim Ries – Life Changes (2019) Ropeadope Records

Tinariwen – Amadjar (2019) Wedge

Leo Richardson – Move (2019) Ubuntu Music

Dave Morgan – Blue Is More Than a Color (2019) Being Time Records

Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai – Playing the Room (2019) ECM

Mike Clark – Indigo Blue: Live at the Iridium (2019) Ropeadope

Martin Wind – Light Blue (2018) Laika Records

AfuriKo – Tao (2019)

Joe Restivo – Where’s Joe? (2019) Blue Barrel Records

Steve Haines – Steve Haines and the Third Floor Orchestra (2019) Justin Time Records

Klaus Paier & Asja Valcic – Vision for Two: 10 Years (2019) ACT

Satoko Fujii & Ramon Lopez – Confluence (2019) Libra

Grazie Wirtti & Matías Arriazu – Caçador de Infância (2019) ECM

Massimo Colombo – Acoustic Weather: The Music of Weather Report (2019) PLAY & Oracle Records LTD

John Zorn – Encomia (2019) Tzadik

Lauren Desberg – Out for Delivery (2019)

Jazzmeia Horn - Love and Liberation (2019) Concord Jazz

Magdalena Kožená - Soirée (2019)

Marcus Shelby Orchestra – Transitions (2019)

Enrico Rava & Joe Lovano – Roma (2019) ECM

Jacques Kuba Séguin – Migrations (2019) Odd Sound

Rob Ryndak & Tom Lockwood – Gratitude (2019) Pacific Coast Jazz

Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller – Parlour Game (2019) Royal Potato Family Records

Anne Mette Iversen’s Ternion Quartet – Invincible Nimbus (2019) Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records

Jonny Mansfield – Elftet (2019) Edition Records

Sarathy Korwar – More Arriving (2019) The Leaf Label

Mark Lockheart & Roger Sayer – Salvator Mundi (2019) Edition Records

Mario Pavone Dialect Trio – Philosophy (2019) Clean Feed

Zach Brock, Matt Ulery, Jon Deitmeyer – Wonderment (2019) Woolgathering Records

Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra – Hiding Out (2019) ZOHO

The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra - Along for the Ride (2019) Summit Records

New Listening - August 2019

Here are some new releases for the last few moments that we have been listening to

Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella, Eivind Aarset – Lost River (2019) ECM

José Dias – After Silence vol.1 (2019) Clean Feed

Ludovic Morlot, Seattle Symphony – John Luther Adams_ Become Desert (2019)

Nick Sanders Trio – Playtime 2050 (2019) Sunnyside

Lifted – 2 (2019)

Resavoir – Resavoir (2019)

Jon Batiste – Anatomy of Angels_ Live at the Village Vanguard (2019)

George Winston – Restless Wind (2019) Dancing Cat/RCA Records

Abdullah Ibrahim – The Balance (2019) Gearbox Records

Wschód – Wschód (2019) Clean Feed

Zhenya Strigalev & Federico Dannemann – The Change (2019)

Scheen Jazzorkester & Thomas Johansson – As We See It… (2019) Clean Feed

Thomas Dahl & Court – Quilter (2019) Losen Records

Steven Herring – Introducing (2019) SteepleChase

Brandee Younger – Soul Awakening (2019)

Linda May Han Oh – Aventurine (2019)

Davina & The Vagabonds – Sugar Drops (2019)

Ben Monder – Day After Day (2019) Sunnyside Communications

Greta Matassa – Portrait (2019) Origin Records

Jamie Saft Quartet – Hidden Corners (2019) RareNoiseRecords

William Parker & In Order to Survive – Live_Shapeshifter (2019) AUM Fidelity

Whit Dickey & Tao Quartets – Peace Planet & Box of Light (2019) AUM Fidelity

Ronny Wiesauer – Monologues (2019) recordJet

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Be Known_ Ancient_Future_Music (2019) Spirit Muse

Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings (2018) International Anthem

Kadhja Bonet – Childqueen (2018)

Chase Baird – A Life Between (2019) Soundsabound Records

Mike Allen – Just Like Magic (2019) Cellar Music

Brian Krock – liddle (2019) Outside In Music

Moutin Factory Quintet – Mythical River (2019) Laborie Jazz

Volti – the color of there seen from here (2019) Innova

Jakob Dinesen – Keys & Strings (2019) Stunt Records/Sundance Music

Ron Carter & Danny Simmons - The Brown Beatnik Tomes; Live at BRIC House (2019) Blue Note

James Francies – Flight (2018) Blue Note

Andrew McCormack – Graviton_ The Calling (2019) Ubuntu Music

Alex Fournier – Triio (2019) Furniture Music Records

Marlene Rosenberg – MLK Convergence (2019) Origin Records

Nérija – Blume (2019) Domino

Chris Stamey – New Songs for the 20th Century (2019) Omnivore

Christopher Willits – Sunset (2019)

Ocean Fanfare – First Nature (2019)

Spring Roll – Episodes (2019) Clean Feed

Mats Eilertsen - Reveries and Revelations (2019) Hubro

Ken Vandermark – Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015_2019 (2019)

Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Cage and Aviary (2019) Tru Thoughts

Allison Miller & Carmen Staaf - Science Fair (2018) Sunnyside Communications

Ben Flocks - Mask of the Muse (2019)

Corey Christiansen – La Proxima (2019) Origin Records

Oscar Hernandez - Love the Moment (2019) Origin Records

Mika Stoltzman & Richard Stoltzman – Palimpsest (2019) Avie

Ill Considered – Ill Considered 6 (2019)

Ivan Teixeira – ALLAYER Project One (2019) Heart Dance Records

Luca Aquino – Italian Songbook (2019) ACT

Wayne Escoffery – Vortex (2018) Sunnyside Communications

The Quiet Temple – The Quiet Temple (2019) Point Of Departure / Wichita

Denny Zeitlin – Solo Piano_ Remembering Miles (2019) Sunnyside Communications

Liam Noble – The Long Game (2019) Edition Records

Marc Jufer Trio – Trip to the Center (2019) QFTF

Ricardo Peixoto – Scary Beautiful (2019) Moving Finger Music

Lynn Cassiers – Imaginary Band (2018) Clean Feed

Marker – New Industries (2019)

Oren Ambarchi – Simian Angel (2019) Editions Mego

Refraction – The Outsider (2019) Rare Colour Records

Old Listening This Week - June 17th, 2019

From the Country bin - some Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 1970s albums and 1968's I've Got You On My Mind Again...

Ain't It Amazing, Gracie

The Best Of Buck Owens, Vol. 6

In The Palm Of Your Hand

I've Got You On My Mind Again

I Wouldn't Live In New York City

That's All Right With Me (If It's All Right With You)...

New Listening This Week - June 17th, 2019

What's new for the ears this week?

Mark De Clive-Lowe - Heritage II

Released in April on Ropeadope - read their press release

Daniel Cano - Social Music

"Hon, A Couch Has Fallen From The Sky"

Michel Camilo - Essence

Fabian Almazan Trio - This Land Abounds With Life

Pitchfork Review here.


Sylvie Courvoisier & Alfred Vogel - Pulse

Piano and drums - out in April on Boomslang

Old Listening This Week - June 10th, 2019

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra Plus (1961 Fontana collection of Columbia recordings)

The Birth Of The Blues

The Nearness Of You

What Makes The Sunset

I Begged Her

I've Got A Crush On You

Saturday Night

The Things We Did Last Summer

I Concentrate On You

It's Only A Paper Moon

You Go To My Head

Bim Bam Baby

How Deep Is The Ocean?

One For My Baby

Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

All Or Nothing At All (with Harry James & His Orchestra)

Spring Is Here

S'Posin'

Time After Time

Stormy Weather

All Of Me

The Music Stopped

September Song

Sweet Lorraine

Try A Little Tenderness

My Blue Heaven

When Your Lover Has Gone

I'm Glad There Is You

Ol' Man River

London By Night (1962 compilation of Capitol recordings)

London By Night

Jeepers Creepers

Ebb Tide

My Blue Heaven

The Moon Was Yellow

The Lonesome Road

On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Where Are You?

South Of The Border

Something Wonderful Happens In Summer

Night And Day

Autumn Leaves

Released in the UK and Australia 

When Your Lover Has Gone (1961 compilation of Capitol recordings)

When Your Lover Has Gone

Ill Wind

Five Hundred Guys

Deep In A Dream

Weep They Will

What Is This Thing Called Love?

Can't We Be Friends

Mood Indigo

Can I Steal A Little Love?

Glad To Be Unhappy

Last Night When We Were Young

The Same Old Song And Dance

Sinatra & Company (1971 Reprise album) featuring “I Will Drink The Wine”

Drinking Water (Agua De Ber)

Someone To Light Up My Life

Triste

Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa De Voce)

This Happy Madness (Estrada Branca)

Wave

One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So)

I Will Drink The Wine

Close To You

Sunrise In The Morning

Bein' Green

My Sweet Lady

Leaving On A Jet Plane

Lady Day

What Direction?

We all take different directions to get to the music that we enjoy. Follow your ears....

New Listening This Week - June 10th, 2019

Time to warm up the ears with some new sounds...Dave Douglas with Uri Caine and Andrew Cyrille - Devotion

The aptly titled Devotion by trumpeter Dave Douglas, pianist Uri Caine and drummer Andrew Cyrille is both a prayer and a dedication. Like a prayer, the trio resolves to maintain a virtuous approach to their celebration of personal heroes, both musical and cultural.

Review here













David Sánchez – Carib
A Grammy-winning saxophonist and member of the SFJAZZ Collective, David Sánchez presents his newest project, Carib – a deeply personal journey using modern jazz to explore the kinship between the West African drum rhythms of Yuba, Calinda, and Sika and music in Haiti, Carriacou, and his native Puerto Rico.

Avishai Cohen – Arvoles

Arvoles (meaning "trees" in the ancient Ladino language) opens with "Simonero," introduced by Cohen's solo pizzicato bass, swiftly joined by piano drums and shortly after by the surprisingly full-sounding ensemble of flute and trombone. This is a beguiling combination of instruments that's repeated on half of the ten tracks here. The title track is a neo-baroque trio piece, performed with delicacy, David's brushed drums providing a sonic wash for Cohen's pizzicato bass solo whereas Cohen's dynamic arco bass contribution on "Face M" is spectacularly virtuosic. The sumptuously thematic strains of "Gesture #2" are echoed by the neo-classical quintet arrangement of "Childhood (For Carmel)" accentuated by alternating arco and pizzicato bass. The tune is overlaid by elegant flute and plaintive trombone extemporisation. Cohen adds substantial gravitas to "Elchinov" with lugubrious arco bass.

Review here



Theo Croker – Star People Nation

Star People Nation finds Croker at the helm of production, songwriting and performance, resulting in an intimate exploration of “the everyday rituals of blackness.” A translation of Theo Croker’s personal, spiritual and creative experience, Star People Nation is a self-reflective collection of provocative, powerfully passionate and boundary-busting compositions that speak to our greater, shared human existence.

Official audio for "Understand Yourself" here









Greg Abate & The Tim Ray Trio: Gratitude: Stage Door Live @ The ZIf somehow you haven't yet heard saxophonist Greg Abate, now in his seventh decade and as sharp and eloquent an orator as ever, it is high time you did. The Rhode Island native is an earnest post-bopper from the Phil Woods/Bud Shank school of straight-on swinging, and Gratitude, Abate's fourth album with the admirable Tim Ray Trio, happens upon the ensemble in blue-chip form in a lively concert recorded on the cozy stage of the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Review here