UK: Joe Armon-Jones-Starting Today(2018)

Starting Today follows the Idiom EP released with Maxwell Owin in 2017. Picked by The Vinyl Factory as one of 2017’s best EPs, it led to live shows at Boiler Room and Jazz Cafe, and was supported by Touching Bass on NTS and Thristian on Worldwide FM. Last year also saw Ezra Collective (of which he’s a co-founder) release their Juan Pablo EP and headline shows at Islington Assembly Hall and Ronnie Scott’s.

USA: Jamie Saft Quartet - Blue Dream (2018)

Jamie Saft - Piano

Bill McHenry - Sax

Bradley Jones - Bass

Nasheet Waits - Drums

01. Vessels
02. Equanimity
03. Sword's Water
04. Violets for Your Furs
05. Blue Dream
06. Infinite Compassion
07. Sweet Lorraine
08. Walls
09. Decamping
10. Words and Deeds
11. Mysterious Arrangements
12. There's a Lull in My Life

UK: Robohands - Green(2018)

'Green' is a 10 track LP of smooth, ambient jazz by Robohands (Andy Baxter)

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Musicians:
Andy Baxter: Drums, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Synths
Jo Hunter: Tenor Saxophone on 2 tracks
Francesca Uberti: Vocals on 1 track
Peter Milanovic: Various Bass and Woodwind on 2 tracks

USA: Tom Lundberg - Prime Time (2018)

Trombonist Tom Lundberg's improvisatory skills are well-known on previous Max Frank Music recordings, as well as on discs with the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra. PRIME TIME marks his debut as a leader.

The instrumentation sets this recording apart, as it incorporates a four-piece rhythm section, two saxophones and a violin, all in support of the solo trombone voice. The rhythm players are equally adept on acoustic and electric instruments, and the groove never subsides.

Clever arrangements by Terry Vosbein allow plenty of room for pure jazz playing, cast in a setting of interesting colors and rhythms, while never losing sight of the original material.

PRIME TIME has something for jazz fans, television buffs, and music lovers in general.

Tom Lundberg – trombone
Doug Rinaldo – saxes, flute
Will Boyd – saxes, flute
Bethany Hankins – violin
Ben Dockery – keyboards
Harold Nagge – guitar 
David Slack – bass
Keith Brown – drums
Graham Spice – engineer
Terry Vosbein – producer, arranger

UK: Hourglass, Norma Winstone, Gwilym on tour

projects to share with you plus a new website! Basho Records will release “Hourglass”, created by genre-busting Austrian composer Johannes Berauer, on Friday 20th July 2018. The recording features virtuosi Thomas Gould (violin), Gwilym Simcock (piano), Mike Walker (guitar), Martin Berauer (bass) and Bernhard Schimpelsberger (drums, percussion and Konnakol). Hourglass will be on tour in early September to launch the new album. Norma Winstone's fabulous trio will be visiting the UK for a whistle stop tour in late July.  They play Manchester Jazz Festival on 27th July, Ealing Jazz Festival on 29th, Pizza Express on 30th and Dorking Watermill on 31st.  In addition to the great Glauco Venier on piano and Klaus Gesing on reeds, the band will be joined by young rising star cellist Abel Selaocoe in Manchester and percussionist Helge Andreas Norbakken in London and Dorking. Abel Selaocoe played on the recent Basho Album Birdsong with Gwilym Simcock and Kizzy Crawford Trish Clowes' My Iris will be playing at Manchester Jazz Festival on Saturday 21st July. Gwilym Simcock will be on tour with Pat Metheny from 28th June in Europe and North America. Hope you will be able to come to Ambleside days.  Tickets are selling fast for this unique event in the Lake District. Gwilym Simcock will be playing with a variety of different musicians every night over the four nights of the festival which runs from Thursday 30th August to Sunday 2nd September and will feature Hourglass on 1st September.

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USA: bison bison-bison bison(2018)

Bison Bison is guitarist Ishmael Ali (Errata, /je’raf/), saxophonist Wills Mckenna (Wills Mckenna Quartet, Here and Now), drummer Matt Carroll (Ohmme, Typical Sisters) and bassist Mike Harmon (Goran Ivanovic Trio, Natural Language, Jolie).

The group plays original music written by Ishmael Ali and Wills Mckenna. The compositions feature melodic and free form improvisations, weaving together complex interwoven rhythmic pieces along with serene floating ballads. Inspired by the works of jazz composers such as Paul Motian and Bill Mchenry, the music of Bison Bison is explorative while still being deeply rooted in song.

USA: Randy Weston's African Rhythms Jamaica Performing Arts Center Sat, July 7, 2018 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

 At 92, a full 64 years after he released his first record, Weston is still performing at full force. He has been called a "griot of jazz and its African roots" and "one of the world's great visionary pianists and composers." A pioneer of multicultural expression on piano, his style draws from Ellington and Monk but is highly distinctive: percussive, rhythmic, capable of producing a wide range of moods. A true jazz great and one of its most important ambassadors. His life work has been in advocacy for connecting worlds of traditions in music. He has impacted jazz composition by pioneering multicultural expression with the piano since the 1950’s.

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) and Seed Artists are honored to co-present the legendary Randy Weston on July 7, 2018, at 7:00PM, as part of JCAL's International Music Festival.

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