Saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski (Best Instrumentalist Scottish Jazz Awards 2013) and pianist Euan Stevenson (Emerging Artist Scottish Jazz Awards 2013) have enjoyed widespread critical acclaim in recent years for their beautiful genre crossing album New Focus, written for string and jazz quartet + harp. Initially inspired by the landmark Stan Getz,
At Black Tornado (click here for more info) is the Whirlwind debut from guitarist Mikkel Ploug, a Denmark native currently based in Copenhagen with six previous albums released to worldwide acclaim. This new outing features his long-standing trio who’ve toured globally the past ten years and captures the feel,
Last week we announced the debut album Woodwork from guitarist and composer Matthew Stevens and an exclusive offer from iTunes. From today the album is available exclusively from iTunes worldwide until the first street date of May 26, 2015, and is currently featured as ‘Editor’s Choice’. No matter your locale,
We’ve had a great reaction to the announcement about Matthew Steven’s debut Woodwork a few days ago, and now you can stream a full track from the album on the NextBop site. Click to listen to the single “Star L.A.” on their site here. Woodwork is now available exclusively from
“Glorious, fiery, deep… Like throwing a hymn book into a pizza oven.” – Cellarsandlofts Can of Worms explores that happy and unpredictable space where written and improvised worlds collide, diving deep into group improvisations and compositions featuring taut, tense grooves, wailing sax-confessionals and all-out glorious free-jazz. Formed on a
Announcing the worldwide release today for Ant Law’s Zero Sum World Zero Sum World (click here for CD, FLAC, ALAC, etc) is the second solo release from guitarist and composer Ant Law and his first for Whirlwind Recordings. A resident in London since 2008, Law regularly performs with
We’re pleased to announce the next album The Cut Off Point from guitarist and composer Phil Robson featuring his new organ trio with Ross Stanley on the Hammond duties and Gene Calderazzo on drums to be released on May 18th 2015. Phil’s been on a roll as of late,
Ant Law’s first launch night of two for Zero Sum World at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho London on Feb 16th is SOLD OUT– thanks for all those who booked. Here is a direct link for bookings for the 17th FEB launch, which still has a few seats left.
2015 Releases Sampler by Alex Garnett’s Bunch Of Five Andromeda is the second solo release from London-based saxophonist and composer Alex Garnett and is the debut recording of ‘Bunch of Five’ his new two tenor saxophone project. The two frontmen, Garnett and the NYC-based Tim Armacost, have a collective 50
Tam de Villiers is to release Panacea, his debut album with Whirlwind Recordings on 16th March. For the the best part of a decade, the quartet of British-born guitarist Tam de Villiers (now firmly established in France) has been striving for musical authenticity, compositional originality and honest group