Featured New Jazz Releases
With VACATIONS VOL 1, you will find an anytime vacation full of passionate, musical paintings depicting the atmosphere, ambience, or the memory of a vacation activity: enjoying the shore, the beach, on a cruise, tropical paradise, staycation and more. With singles featured on local and global smooth jazz radio stations, Grace Brancale has been described as [...]
Of Certain Elements, the third album from acclaimed jazz vocalist Karla Harris, it can be said that this is a place where lush contemporary comes alongside deft acoustic mainstream jazz to create the potent signature sound of this collection. Intriguingly mystical and invitingly earthy, with an aural quality all its own, the record’s tunes of [...]
FEATURE RELEASE Miss B's Classroom First single from the forthcoming album "Sounds Cool Volume 2" Release Date September 28, 2018 "Miss B's Classroom" is an ode to education. I am from a family of Teachers. I also have a close friend who teaches and she asked me to record a 20-30minute mix of jazz and [...]
FEATURE RELEASE New Album by Inventive Trumpeter and Flugelhornist Jeff Oster "Reach" October 5th, 2018 Release Date With a dynamic new age/jazz/prog rock hybrid vibe often whimsically described as “Miles Davis meets Pink Floyd,” Jeff Oster has, since his 2005 award winning full length debut Released, shapeshifted the boundaries and redefined the sonic possibilities [...]
FEATURE RELEASE Drummer RJ Rabin and his group Freckle Legend to release their new recording "The Long Walk Home" this fall "The Long Walk Home” runs the gamut from avant-garde jazz to hard-core rock, with driving guitar riffs and soulful vocals Funky NYC-based band Freckle Legend's freshman recording, The Long Walk Home, delivers a [...]
NEW RELEASE Veteran Drummer Jay Lawrence's New release "Sonic Paragon" August 1st Release Date on Jazz Hang Records "Sonic Paragon" is a fantastic collaboration of the talented and amazing drummer, Jay Lawrence, with many of the greatest jazz players on the scene today–John Patitucci, bass; Renee Rosnes, piano; Harry Allen, tenor saxophone; Terell Stafford, trumpet; [...]
KALEN HENRY - Not Forgotten A Love Story Inspired by the Music of Nat King Cole Brilliant - 19-year-old Kalen Henry releases her debut project “Not Forgotten”, an exploration of one of her favorite artists: the one and only Nat King Cole. Although his music primarily comes from the American Songbook and is typically performed by jazz [...]
Empathy Project - Influences - Empathy is the ability to experience another person, another creature, a forest, a lake, nature and all the world inside yourself. This process is a drastically different and a far deeper and more errorless form of communication than the one we are all used to nowadays. Our mission is to [...]
NOAH PREMINGER - Genuinity - Saxophonist Noah Preminger celebrates the release of Genuinity. On Genuinity, his tenth release as a leader and his debut on Criss Cross Records, Preminger and longtime collaborators Palmer and Cass are joined for the first time by Weiss. Nine Preminger originals evoke varying moods and ambience with strong melodies and [...]
MELBREEZE - Animazonia - Blue Canoe Records releases "Animazonia" from Turkish-born world musician Melbreeze. The ninth release from this creative world musician started as a Brazilian jazz effort but culminated into a compilation of authentic Brazilian music fused with world, jazz and dance flavors. Melbreeze's passion for world music and stubbornly authentic recreation of Brazilian [...]