Bill Laurance – Lumen (ACT, 2025) In April 2025, pianist and composer Bill Laurance spent several days recording alone inside St. Faith’s Church in Dulwich,…
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Tag: contemporary jazz
Pulse Check: Jamile Finds The Jazz Beat
Jamile with Miki Yamanaka and her trio plus Steve Wilson – Pursuit of a Pulse (Cellar Music, 2025) On Pursuit Of A Pulse, gifted vocalist-composer…
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Harp, Beats & Dreams Reworks Reimagines Harp in an Enthralling Mélange of Styles
Marysia Osu – Harp, Beats & Dreams Reworks (Brownswood Recordings, 2025) Groundbreaking Polish harp player and producer Marysia Osu has developed a remarkable, innovative music…
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A Contemporary Jazz Statement Based in Collaboration and Vision
Lorenzo Bellini – Source (GleAM Records, 2025) Pianist and composer Lorenzo Bellini leads a quartet formed during his time at Berklee College of Music. Alongside…
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Believin’ In Revisions: Vital Information Finds Its Way Home
Steve Smith’s Vital Information – New Perspective (Drum Legacy Records, 2025) Steve Smith’s Vital Information presents a fabulous lineup on its latest album, New Perspective.…
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Singer Lauren Henderson Explores Sound in Deeply Personal ‘Sonidos’
Lauren Henderson – Sonidos (Brontosaurus Records, 2025) Lauren Henderson’s Sonidos is a refined, elegant and seasonally framed exploration of sound, identity, and cultural lineage. Rooted…
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Jazz Singer Tereza Catarov Unearths Balkan Tradition on ‘Koren’
Tereza Catarov – Koren (PKmusik, 2025) Tereza Catarov’s debut album, Koren offers an inventive and fearless synthesis of Balkan folk traditions and contemporary jazz. The…
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Kind of Blue: Joni Mitchell Curates a Jazz-Flavored Retrospective
Joni Mitchell will release Joni’s Jazz on September 5, a career-spanning anthology that traces her deep and evolving relationship with jazz. The 61-track collection arrives…
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Sandro Norton Flying High at the Heart of It, Featuring Gary Burton
Flying High at the Heart of It (distributed by CDX Records and The Orchard) is the latest album by Portuguese jazz guitarist and composer Sandro…
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A Supermoon and Supergroup: Carl Weingarten Slides Into Orbit
Carl Weingarten – Songs for a Perigee Moon (Multiphase, 2025) Carl Weingarten’s Songs for a Perigee Moon is thematically inspired by the “perigee moon” (supermoon).…
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