DAN COSTA Live in California Following two critically-acclaimed studio albums, Dan Costa presents “Live in California”, his first live album. It recaptures the intimate setting of the concert and features solo piano versions of tunes composed by Costa as well as by Brazilian jazz legends Recorded at Kuumbwa Jazz, California, USA on 29 February 2020 [...]
SPOTLIGHT - LUBA MASON - Triangle Actress and recording artist Luba Mason released her 4th solo album titled TRIANGLE, featuring a new intimate line-up never recorded before in the jazz world consisting of Luba’s rich vocal mastery, fueled by the legendary Joe Locke on Vibraphone and the brilliant James Genus [...]
DERUPETO The band Derupeto was started when Gothenburg guitarist Tobias Grim put the members togheter for a gig at the club Glenn miller in Stockholm and they felt they could create something unique together. Derupeto has previously played at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival and done many appreciated concerts in Sweden. Now finally comes the group's [...]
ROGER LINWhisper of the Isolated Ones"Whisper of the Isolated Ones" is Roger Lin's first album release as a leader. The album features pianist Ryosuke Tsutsui, bassist Soso Gelovani, drummer Nick Groat, and trumpeter, regular member of the Jerry Bergonzi Quartet, Phil Grenadier.Roger Lin is a Taiwanese guitarist born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, and now based [...]
In a recording career that spans nearly three decades, saxophonist Dave Koz has racked up an astoundingly impressive array of honors and achievements: nine GRAMMY® nominations, 11 No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, numerous world tours, 13 sold-out Dave Koz & Friends At Sea cruises, performances for [...]
This Dream Of You, produced in May 2020 by Ms. Krall, was mixed by Al Schmitt, who worked closely with the artist to achieve notable intimacy and immediacy with her voice in the final balance. The performances come from sessions in 2016 and 2017, on which Krall worked with her friend and longtime creative partner, Tommy LiPuma. Mr. LiPuma passed away [...]
Verve Records announces the release of a never-before-heard stellar live recording from the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald. The Lost Berlin Tapes were recorded – incredibly in both mono and stereo – at Berlin's Sportpalast on March 25, 1962 and finds Ella at the top of her game with a trio led by pianist [...]
Pianist/Composer Fred Hersch celebrates his 65th birthday in quarantine with a brilliant new solo album recorded in his Pennsylvania home On Songs From Home, due out November 6 via Palmetto Records, Hersch explores nostalgic pop songs, heartfelt originals and resonant jazz classics with his inimitable expressiveness and rich invention in the intimacy of imposed isolation When [...]
The sound of stride piano vividly evokes scenes from the past: the roaring nightclubs of 1920s Harlem, the raucous birth pangs of jazz’s nascent years, the gymnastic burlesques of risk-taking silent movie madcaps. But in the music of pianist/composer Emmet Cohen, the past is always present, if not venturing with sly turns into an open-eared [...]
Ukamusic is a new century world music collective created by Naomi Louise Warne that is spontaneous & ever changing - from the band members, style of music, artwork & fashion. The latest project "The Songs Of Johnny Mandel" features Grammy winner Charles Neville on saxophone. This was their final collaboration before Charles passed in 2018. [...]