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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 7th June 2019
7th Jun 2019
Matt's usual pithy look at some of the latest releases, lacklustre attempts at humour, lots of vinyl and actually some pretty good releases.
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Charlie Parker - Early Recordings
7th Jun 2019
Charlie Parker's game changing sessions heralded the arrival of bebop and remained unsurpassed to this day... in Matt's opinion anyway. Read the full article to find out why.
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Mosambique - Big City Moves
3rd Jun 2019
This exciting young quintet from Norway release a memorable album of jazz fusion with tongue-firmly in cheek.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 31st May 2019
31st May 2019
Matt troughs through the week’s jazz new releases, listening to some so you don’t have to, but plenty so you hopefully do!
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Stan Getz - Focus
31st May 2019
Stan Getz's Focus gets a reappraisal, that rare thing, a jazz with strings album that challenges, thanks to Eddie Sauter's sophisticated arrangements.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 24th May 2019
24th May 2019
Matt bends an ear towards some of this week's jazz related releases, from the slowcore guitar of Chris Brokaw, through the upbeat soul jazz of Beatifik to Paolo Russo's Mediterranean musings.
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Alexi Tuomarila Trio - Sphere
24th May 2019
Alexi Tuomarila and his group prove there is plenty of scope of innovation in the jazz piano trio, forging their own unique sound on Sphere.
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Thelonious Monk Trio
23rd May 2019
Thelonious Monk roughed up some of his best known tunes on these exciting and spiky trio sessions, recorded during a troubled period in the pianists life, just before he would break through with some of his definitive albums.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 17th May 2019
20th May 2019
This week I have been enjoying Partisan's first ever live album, avant-garde music for French kids TV, Brad Mehldau's new album and also picked some suggestions from the second half of the ECM Touchstones series, celebrating 50 years of one of the most important Jazz labels.
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Pacifica from Australian quartet The Vampires
17th May 2019
Matt delights in the refreshingly breezy new album from The Vampires, an Australian collective blending jazz with exotica, dub and much more.
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A fascinating Duke Ellington biography by Terry Teachout
15th May 2019
Matt explores Duke Ellington's life and music through Terry Teachout's biography, which paints a picture of both the musician and the world he was working in.
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Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen - Red Lips, Knuckles and Bones
10th May 2019
Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen delivers a moving album of her own material, genre hopping from jazz to americana with style and humour, despite personal losses that inspired many of the songs.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 10th May 2019
10th May 2019
A brief roundup of the week's jazz new releases, including a DVD of the Thelonious Monk Quartet in 1963.
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Miles Davis - Milestones
8th May 2019
One of the pinnacles of hard-bop, Milestones showcases some of the finest musicians at work in the fifties - John Coltrane, Julian `Cannonball' Adderley, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Jo Jones, as well as Miles Davis's first steps into modal jazz.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 3rd May 2019
3rd May 2019
Matt goes through some of the weeks notable releases, including Alan Broadbent's finger poppin' piano trio, the exciting South African / Swiss group Skyjack, explores the mysteries of the Stone Soup and the VEIN Trio's orchestral manoeuvres.
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Claire Martin
2nd May 2019
Claire Martin celebrates her twentieth album in style with this collection of modern day standards recorded with her Swedish trio.
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Trish Clowes - Ninety Degrees Gravity
26th Apr 2019
A vivid and compelling new album from Trish Clowes' quartet My Iris, Matt has been enjoying the sci-fi mind-flip that is Ninety Degrees Gravity on Basho Records.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 26th April 2019
26th Apr 2019
Aside from Recording of the Week, Trish Clowes excellent Ninety Degrees Gravity , this week Gwilym Simcock unviels his second solo piano album, Claire Martin takes on Mister Mr (or is it Mr Mister, on Mr Mr even?) amongst others, Hubro reissue Ketil Bjornstd's early solo albums on vinyl, evocactive explorations from Kino Trio and Sam Rivers' masterpiece Contours on vinyl.
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Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
25th Apr 2019
In 1959 Sonny Rollins decided he needed a break in order to grow as a musician and left the New York music scene. After two years of practising every day on the Williamsburg Bridge, accompanied only by the cry of seagulls and trains rolling by, he returned with this terrific album.
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Elliot Galvin - Modern Times
19th Apr 2019
My Recording of the Week is Elliot Galvin's hugely enjoyable Modern Times. I recently chatted with Elliot about his inspiration for recording direct to vinyl.
