Guardians of the Heart Machine – the debut Whirlwind release from tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake – symbolizes and protects the importance of creating music with feeling, blending his considerable experience in contemporary jazz with three exciting players originally from the French scene – pianist Tony Tixier, double bassist Florent Nisse
Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux communicates an extraordinarily colorful palette of conceptual reasoning and musical expression in new release, Path of Totality. Working with saxophonist David Binney, pianist/keyboardist Matt Mitchell, drummers Kenny Wollesen and Nate Wood, plus guest artists, saxophonist/composer Nachoff’s overarching inspiration arose from the moon’s total eclipse of the sun
As New York-based saxophonist and composer Jure Pukl enthuses, Doubtless is pretty much a family project/album – an exuberant, high-spirited double-tenor quartet with wife Melissa Aldana plus close friends Joe Sanders (double bass) and Greg Hutchinson (drums). The band will be touring Europe starting Feb 28th Jure will also be running a Creative Jazz Clinic, a week of instrumental lessons,
Head First by John Turville Pianist and composer John Turville has established himself as a mainstay of the UK and European contemporary jazz scenes in his varied roles as sideman, co-leader and trio/quartet leader. So it’s testament to his considerable reputation that this debut quintet release, Head First, should include
The release of Ingrid Jensen and Steve Treseler’s Invisible Sounds: For Kenny Wheeler (CD / DL / 180gram gatefold limited edition LP), an album dedicated to the life, music and legacy of Kenny Wheeler will be celebrated with four shows at Birdland Jazz Club, NYC on 23rd and 24th January.
CD • DL • 12″ 2x Gatefold LP – 180 Gram – Limited Edition pre -order: here Guardians of the Heart Machine – the debut Whirlwind release from tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake – symbolizes and protects the importance of creating music with feeling, blending his considerable experience in