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Steve Baker, 'Tonic'
8th Jul 2022
Seasoned media composer Steve Baker makes his full-length solo debut with Tonic, featuring a fifteen-piece jazz band plus full studio orchestra, with contributions from Mark Lockheart and Laura Jurd.
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Tonic
Steve Baker
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 7th July 2022
7th Jul 2022
This week's picks for the latest jazz releases include a Steve Tibbetts retrospective, Trombone Shorty, and Kjetil Mulelid's piano trio.
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Hellbound Train: An Anthology
Steve Tibbetts (guitar, percussion, piano, bouzouki, lithophone, dobro, tape realization), Marc Anderson (conga, percussion, drums, drum), Claudia Schmidt (voice), Rhea Valentine (voice), Jim Anton (double bass), Eric Anderson (double bass), Marcus Wise (percussion, tabla), Mike Olson (synthesizer), Bob Hughes (double bass), Tim Wienhold (percussion), Steve Cochrane (tabla), Michelle Kinney (cello, pipe)
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BBC Music Magazine - August 2022 Choices
7th Jul 2022
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a 'consistently insightful' survey of Barber's complete songs from American pianist Dylan Perez and a rich and varied line-up of singers including Nicky Spence, Mary Bevan and William Thomas on Resonus.
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Barber: The Complete Songs
Dylan Perez (piano), Samantha Clarke, Soraya Mafi, Louise Kemény, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Fleur Barron (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Dominic Sedgwick, Julien Van Mellaerts (baritones), William Thomas (bass) Navarra String Quartet
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Alessandro Quarta on Sixteen Seasons
6th Jul 2022
Italian violinist, composer and musical superstar Alessandro Quarta talks to Presto's Paolo Pezzangora about his new album Sixteen Seasons - juxtaposing four composers' musical responses to the seasons of the year.
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1960's Impulse: Essential Mainstream Jazz
5th Jul 2022
We take a look back at some of our favourite mainstream jazz releases from the early Impulse! Records catalogue - from Shirley Scott, to Duke Ellington and Gil Evans.
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New Music Book Publications - 4th July 2022
4th Jul 2022
An examination of Nordic music and its performers; a revised edition of the authoritative catalogue of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis; a paperback edition of conductor John Mauceri's guide to the art of listening; a volume discussing the relationship between music and time from the differing perspectives of philosophers, psychologists, and performers; and a picture book for children exploring musical instruments and how they are made.
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The Presto Chart - June 2022
4th Jul 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with Marc-André Hamelin's recording of William Bolcom's complete piano rags on Hyperion in first place...
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Latest Jazz Reissues from Waxtime In Color - July 2022
2nd Jul 2022
We take a look at some of the new and upcoming vinyl issues from Waxtime In Color.
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Ronald Brautigam performs piano concertos by Johann Wilhelm Wilms
1st Jul 2022
Fortepianist Ronald Brautigam is joined by the Kölner Akademie and conductor Michael Alexander Willens for the first of two volumes of concertos by the composer once described as "the Dutch Beethoven".
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New Release Round-Up - 1st July 2022
1st Jul 2022
Haydn from Giovanni Antonini, Mouton from the Brabant Ensemble, French trumpet concertos from Håkan Hardenberger, and the world premiere recording of a powerful new song-cycle for tenor and string quartet by Nico Muhly.
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Charles Lloyd, 'Trios: Chapel'
1st Jul 2022
The first in Charles Lloyd's 'trio of trios' series sees him teaming up with the indominable duo of Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan.
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Presto Editor's Choices - June 2022
30th Jun 2022
A tour de force of a recital from contemporary music diva and composer Héloïse Werner (plus a rich and varied roster of instrumental soloists), a revelatory Dichterliebe from Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov, and a superb collection of the young Ravel's ambitious submissions for the Prix de Rome...
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 30th June 2022
30th Jun 2022
The latest jazz recordings include new albums from Binker Golding, Kirk Knuffke and Nduduzo Makhathini.
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In the Spirit of Ntu
Nduduzo Makhathini (music production, piano), Linda Sikhakhane (saxophone), Robin Kock (trumpet), Gontse Makhene (percussion), Steven de Souza (bass guitar), Dane Paris (drums), Omagugu (vocalist), Jaleel Shaw (saxophone), Anna Widauer (vocalist)
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Florian Sempey on Rossini
28th Jun 2022
The French baritone discusses his new album Figaro? Sì! (out now on Alpha Classics), the stage-director who transformed his perspective on Rossini's wheeler-dealing barber, and how the composer's joie de vivre is often underscored by melancholy...
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Ethel Smyth: Complete Piano Works
28th Jun 2022
In this new collection by Breitkopf & Härtel, Ethel Smyth's complete piano works are arranged in order of progressive difficulty, shedding light on an often-overlooked part of Smyth's oeuvre. Find out more here.
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Lola Descours on Bassoon Steppes
27th Jun 2022
The bassoonist discusses her new album of transcriptions, featuring Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and more, and the unique relationship between the instrument and Russian repertoire.
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Bassoon Steppes
Lola Descours (bassoon), Paloma Kouider (piano)
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The New Wave of Jazz: Free and Avant-Garde Sounds of 1960's Impulse! Records
27th Jun 2022
We take a look back at the first decade of Impulse! Records' influential output, and recommend some of our favourites from groundbreaking artists exploring free, avant-garde and spiritual jazz sounds.
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Ascension
John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone), John Tchicai (alto saxophone), Marion Brown (alto saxophone), Dewey Johnson (trumpet), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Archie Shepp (tenor saxophone), Elvin Jones (drums), McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (upright bass), Art Davis (upright bass)
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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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Freddie De Tommaso - Il Tenore
24th Jun 2022
The young British-Italian tenor is on barnstorming form in a programme of scenes and arias from Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly and Carmen, with equally impressive guest appearances from Lise Davidsen, Natalya Romaniw and Aigul Akhmetshina.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th June 2022
24th Jun 2022
Massenet orchestral songs with soloists including Véronique Gens and Étienne Dupuis, Vivaldi from Les Arts Florissants, music by three Latvian composers from Kremerata Baltica, and Bach from Israeli multi-instrumentalist Alon Sariel.
