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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - July 2022
25th Jun 2022
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the July 2022 issue include Joey Alexander's Mack Avenue debut Origin, the first of Charles Lloyd's trio of trio albums, and Binker Golding's electric blues-infused Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy.
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Jean Carne, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, 'Jazz Is Dead 012: Jean Carne'
24th Jun 2022
Veteran soul vocalist Jean Carne returns to the studio as part of the latest instalment in Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's Jazz Is Dead series.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 23rd June 2022
23rd Jun 2022
The latest new jazz releases include trios from Charles Lloyd, a previously unreleased concert from Ella Fitzgerald, and T.S. Monk's first sextet live album.
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Rembrandt Frerichs on improvising piano concertos
20th Jun 2022
The Dutch pianist and composer sat down with us to chat about his two new piano concertos, bringing improvisation into the composition process, and what the rest of 2022 has in store for him.
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10 Essential Blue Note Albums: 1950s
19th Jun 2022
We recommend some of our favourite recordings from a heavily influential period in an equally important record label's catalogue.
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Bill Evans, 'You Must Believe In Spring'
17th Jun 2022
A reissue of the much-loved posthumous Bill Evans album on Craft Recordings gives us the perfect excuse to revisit his late-career classic, You Must Believe In Spring.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 16th June 2022
16th Jun 2022
New music from Alan Broadbent, Pasquale Grasso, and Ivo Neame are amongst our picks for the best new jazz releases this week.
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Ben Marc, 'Glass Effect'
10th Jun 2022
London-based bass player Ben Marc (aka Neil Charles) pools his influences from broken beat, free jazz and electronica in a low-key yet ambitious studio debut.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 9th June 2022
9th Jun 2022
This week's new jazz releases include the first solo album in over two decades from Brian Jackson, Parisian musician Sly Johnson's soul and hip-hop-infused 55.4, and Danish drummer Kresten Osgood playing the organ.
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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - June 2022
6th Jun 2022
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the June 2022 issue include Trish Clowes' A View With a Room, Mary Halvorson's two new records, and Jeremy Pelt.
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Steve Davis, 'Bluesthetic'
3rd Jun 2022
Steve Davis' latest album with Smoke Sessions reunites the trombonist with a quintet of close collaborators from his long career, as they tackle a quality set of originals underpinned by a love of blues and swing.
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Steve Davis
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 2nd June 2022
2nd Jun 2022
New music from Mats Gustafsson, a reissue of a Bill Evans classic, and the latest instalment of Jazz Is Dead are amongst our picks for new jazz releases this week.
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Shabaka, 'Afrikan Culture'
31st May 2022
The London multireedist of Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming fame releases his first full solo project, a short album of meditative woodwind music.
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Andrés Thor, 'Hereby'
27th May 2022
The globe-trotting Icelandic guitarist's new album is a masterclass of the Metheny-style guitar trio, bringing the rawness of classic rock acts to the time-honoured tradition.
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Andrés Thor
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 26th May 2022
26th May 2022
The latest jazz releases include the solo artist debut of Shabaka Hutchings, child prodigy Joey Alexander on Mack Avenue, and Ubuntu Music's Aid for Ukraine.
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Tord Gustavsen on piano trios and Scandinavian folk tunes
25th May 2022
We caught up with Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen while touring his new album Opening on ECM Records, to discuss his love of piano trio chemistry, Scandinavian folk tunes, and the psychology of improvisation.
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Tigran Hamasyan, 'StandArt'
20th May 2022
Tigran Hamasyan's latest recording sees him tackling an album's worth of American standard repertoire with the same experimental flair that makes his original compositions so compelling.
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New and Upcoming Vinyl - May 2022
19th May 2022
The latest vinyl issues include 2021 releases from Nishla Smith and Esperanza Spalding, and reissues of classics by Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.
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The Legacy of 'Madvillainy'
17th May 2022
Madlib and MF DOOM's now-iconic 2004 collaborative record provided a young Josh his gateway into hip-hop music, and more than holds up today as a hip-hop classic with some tangential links to jazz, funk and soul music.
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Gilad Hekselman, 'Far Star'
13th May 2022
Gilad Hekselman's tenth studio album has the New York-based guitarist at his most creative and daring, with curious sonic experimentation and contributions from Eric Harland and Shai Maestro.
