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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 21st July 2022
21st Jul 2022
The latest jazz releases include debut albums from London multi-instrumentalist DoomCannon, American-born, Prague-based vocalist Allison Wheeler, and the Swiss Jazz Ambassadors, as well as a few retrospectives and reissues.
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Weather Report, 'Heavy Weather'
19th Jul 2022
At a time when jazz fusion was beginning to fall out of favour, Weather Report's now-seminal seventh album rejuvenated the style by embracing popular music, making it one of the most commercially-successful fusion records of the time but also one of the most fun to revisit.
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Heavy Weather
Weather Report
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Jasmine Myra, 'Horizons'
15th Jul 2022
The Leeds-based saxophonist makes a confident debut on Gondwana Records, showcasing her keen ear for melody, texture and mood with the emotionally-charged Horizons.
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Horizons
Jasmine Myra (saxophone & flute)
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 14th July 2022
14th Jul 2022
The latest jazz releases include organist Ronnie Foster's return to Blue Note, Gard Nilssen's bandleading debut on ECM, and new duos from Sachal Vasandani and Romain Collin.
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Barbara Thompson MBE (1944-2022)
13th Jul 2022
The British saxophonist, known for her contributions to the '70s English jazz scene as well as her extensive session and composition work, has died aged 77.
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Essential recordings from Mack Avenue Music Group
12th Jul 2022
We recommend some of our favourite artists from the past and present roster of Detroit's finest jazz label, Mack Avenue Music Group.
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The Jazz Chart - June 2022
10th Jul 2022
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, including Bill Evans, Steve Davis and Charles Lloyd.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
