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I don't think there's already a thread for this topic, so here it is.
There are a couple of new releases next month that I'm looking forward to -
Joe Henderson & McCoy Tyner - Live at Slugs' 1966 - a double-CD live set
Never-before-issued McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson 1966 live recording set for release on Blue Note | Jazzwise
And volume 8 of the Miles Davis Bootleg series, Miles In France. Bit pricey but it is a 6-CD set, 1963 featuring George Coleman on tenor sax and the following year with Wayne Shorter -
Miles In France 1963 & 1964 - Miles Davis Quintet: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Amazon.co.uk: CDs & Vinyl
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10-08-2024 04:45 PM
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New Jonathan Stout Music:
The "Fathead" Session EP | The Jonathan Stout Quartet | Jonathan Stout
released August 23, 2024
Jonathan Stout, guitar
Nate Ketner, clarinet
Riley Baker, bass
Josh Collazo, drums
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I'm looking forward to the new album from Brad Shepik, 'Human Activity: Dream of the Possible' out this Friday.
Bandcamp: Human Activity: Dream of the Possible | Brad Shepik | Shifting Paradigm Records
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I'm enjoying David Preston's 'Purple/Black vol.2', released on 27 September this year (with vinyl coming later this month)
Bandcamp: Volume 2 - Purple / Black | David Preston
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I like that. Someone who cares. Someone who is beyond ethnocentric and nationalism. Citoyen du monde.
'Human Activity: Dream of the Possible' releases October 11, 2024 on CD and download. 'Human Activity Dream of the Possible' is a ten movement meditation on the climate challenges we face, aiming to inspire people to take any action they can to preserve and adapt in a sustainable way for future generations. Shepik composed and premiered the work in 2021 as response to the that year's climate report and his previous composition Human Activity Suite (2007). The concert length work weaves stringed instruments and rhythms from around the world with jazz into a narrative of hope.
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Ok, so this was released last month, but for some reason fell off my radar. Mike Stern - Echoes and Other Songs
Echoes and Other Songs | Mike Stern
Says it was produced by Jim Beard - must have been one of the last things he produced (and played on).
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Ashes and Dust, Earth and Sky (Lludw a llwch, daear a nef)
by Rachel Musson
On Bandcamp
Richard Williams:
Inspired by researches into her family’s history in Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro during lockdown, the album was recorded and mixed in 2021. It combines field recordings in West Wales with her saxophones, flute, piccolo, wind chimes, singing bowl and tro (a Cambodian spike fiddle).
Birdsong, wind, church bells — these form the material into which Musson weaves her own contributions, shaping a 40-minute tapestry beyond definition. Birds are the first thing you hear, chirping and cawing, and soon a song is being mimicked by her flute, which reminded me of something Eric Dolphy, another flautist, said long ago: “At home I used to play, and the birds always used to whistle with me. I’d stop what I was working on and play with the birds.” A piccolo joins in, while a singing bowl and the patter of saxophone pads add to the mix before a brief passage of restrained free-style tenor ends the piece.
The music creates and sustains its own space, with frequent individual highlights. The second and fifth of the six tracks, “Bethink and Lay to Heart” and “Windblown”, contain lovely saxophone chorales emerging out of the ambiance and speaking to it, while the finale, the 10-minute title track, opens with a pair of piccolos conversing like blackbirds, introducing the altered sound of bells and other distorted samples which loom and linger until they recede into the silence, having made their quiet but lasting impression.
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