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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 5th April 2024
5th Apr 2024
New music from a hard-bop supergroup, a humanistic piano trio, rustic Nordic fiddle jazz, sax-led reflections tinged with a European aesthetic and some '80s Nina...
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Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi - Altera Vita
5th Apr 2024
An engrossing ambiance, beautiful pieces and spirited performances make for a recording augmented with a certain otherworldliness from these two close-knit musical partners.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 29th March 2024
29th Mar 2024
Amongst the highlights this week is Cyrille Aimee's first self-penned album A Fleur de Peau, Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro and Marilyn Mazur are captured live in 2023, and Lonnie Smith's Afro-Desia goes all psychedelic on us...
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Michiel Stekelenburg - Catharsis
27th Mar 2024
Guitarist / composer Michiel Stekelenburg takes us on a moving journey through his deepest inner emotions, looking for resolution and closure for himself, and offering up a compelling long player for us all to enjoy.
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Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley - Journey To Where
22nd Mar 2024
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall in 2021, this collaboration between saxophonist and pianist is a charmingly sophisticated affair containing as many pleasingly interwoven musical references as you care to mention.
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Trish Clowes (saxophone), Ross Stanley
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 22nd March 2024
22nd Mar 2024
This week's round-up includes a double instalment of double bass wizardry, a previously unreleased Alice Coltrane live recording, Kjetil Mulelid's music for ensemble, some rather out-there improvisations from Shiver & Matthew Bourne, and a collection of songs from vocalist Lauren Kinsella...
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Happy Birthday, Courtney Pine!
18th Mar 2024
Presto Music celebrates the 60th birthday of British jazz giant and multiple MOBO winner Courtney Pine OBE, CBE.
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Our streaming service turns one!
6th Mar 2024
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of our streaming service, we are giving you the chance to win a year's free subscription.
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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - March 2024
5th Mar 2024
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the March 2024 issue include new music from Adam Bałdych & Leszek Możdżer, Empirical, Vijay Iyer, Julian Lage, Charles Lloyd, QOW Trio, Joel Ross, Youn Sun Nah, John Surman as well as archive releases from Art Farmer, Mike Makhalemele & Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi and The Cliffs.
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FIRE! - Testament
1st Mar 2024
The raucous Scandinavian trio go back to basics, tearing up the rulebook and starting all over again in the expressionistic fashion they know best!
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 1st March 2024
1st Mar 2024
Our Round-Up this week presents emotive Finnish jazz, a new turn for the British masters, some Dutch pizzazz and two organists, both alike in dignity but completely opposing in style...
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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - The Singing Nun
28th Feb 2024
On a new recording, the singing Ethiopian nun mesmerises with her hauntingly beautiful piano compositions, deeply rooted in Ethiopian spiritual and folk traditions.
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Joel Ross - nublues
23rd Feb 2024
On his exceptional fourth album for Blue Note, the vibraphonist explores the ins-and-outs of the blues with the help of a fresh mindset and an equally reflective band.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 23rd February 2024
23rd Feb 2024
This week's selection of highlights delivers the new generation of Japanese jazz, young London-based guitar talent, an Italian master, lost takes from a R&B legend and some Danish electro-mania that'll make you freak out...
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Austin Peralta's Legendary Spacewalk
22nd Feb 2024
As a deluxe edition of his magnum opus Endless Planets is released on vinyl for the very first time, we take a look back at the all-too-brief life and career of the visionary American piano prodigy.
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Austin Peralta
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Jazzwise Editor's Choices - February 2024
20th Feb 2024
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the February 2024 issue include new music from Ambrose Akinmusire, Joey Alexander, Chick Corea & Orchestra da Camera Della Sardegna, Paul Dunmall, Mary Halvorson, Jasper Høiby, Ethan Iverson, Verneri Pohjola, Anaïs Reno and Julia Werup, as well as archive releases from Geri Allen & Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mildred Bailey, Oscar Peterson and Phil Upchurch.
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Vijay Iyer Trio - Compassion
16th Feb 2024
Exploding with musical ideas that move in all-encompassing harmony with one another, the faithful trio reunite in perhaps the first great ECM release of the year.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 16th February 2024
16th Feb 2024
Our selections this week include some Brighton-based future-soul, Swedish trip-hop vocal jazz, Bulgarian folk dances that call back to the days of classic prog rock and an eerie rendition of Thelonious Monk, performed on theremin...
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Anaïs Reno - And So It Goes...
13th Feb 2024
Having grown up in and around the New York jazz scene, the young (but by no means inexperienced) vocalist shares insight into the making of her new live album for PX Records.
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Mary Halvorson - Cloudward
9th Feb 2024
The guitarist's third album for the Nonesuch label sees the radical improviser hone her signature brand of free-form jazz into a refined and accessible end result, all the while remaining wildly unpredictable.
