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20.02.2025 Out now in Europe and March 21, 2025 in the US and Canada via Rewound Echoes, Impressions brings together jazz and classical influences via a remarkably versatile electro-acoustic ensemble read more 20.02.2025 Paul Hecht is a multifaceted artist with expertise that spans far beyond the discipline of music. A trained jazz pianist whose language and form was nurtured through an early encounter with Yusef Lateef, Hecht quickly became fascinated with realms of creativity outside a single genre and medium. read more 19.02.2025 Inimitable Japanese pianist/composer Satoko Fujii performs in twelve North American cities and towns, Saturday, March 22 through Tuesday, April 8. The performances include two duo performances with trumpeter Kappa Maki, as well as ten concerts with her Tokyo Trio celebrating the March release of Dream a Dream, the ensemble's first studio recording. read more 19.02.2025 The Chicago Jazz Orchestra (CJO), under the direction of Jeff Lindberg, is pleased to announce the upcoming release of More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery, on March 28, 2025, via Chicago Jazz Orchestra Records. read more 19.02.2025 Daniel Garbin Trio with Freddie Bryant and Mir Islam Thurs, Feb 20, 6pm at Neem Indian Cuisine 3549 Johnson Ave, Bronx, NY 10463 New CD Coming March 10, 2025 read more  19.02.2025 Savant Records is proud to announce the February 21, 2025 release of Looking Back, the exciting new album from drummer-bandleader Richard Baratta. As the title suggests, on his fourth album for Savant, Baratta takes listeners down a nostalgic road of classic rock and soul recordings from the mid to late 1960's, and reimagines them in a riveting jazz setting. Baratta's ace band includes the great GRAMMY nominated pianist-arranger Bill O'Connell, saxophonist Vincent Herring, guitarist Paul Bollenback, bassist Michael Goetz, percussionist Paul Rossman and special guest vocalist Carol Scott. read more18.02.2025 Ted Rosenthal has enjoyed a prolific career, including fifteen critically acclaimed albums as a leader, "Trios in 4 Acts" marks the pianist's long-awaited return to the studio after more than a decade. The four new albums, recorded in a flurry of activity during the summer of 2024, each follow a separate thread that Rosenthal has explored over the course of his career. read more
08.02.2025 On Saturday February 8, two world class performers, Linwood Taylor and Sol Roots, join forces for a powerful concert of deep blues, energetic rock, raw funk, and heartfelt soul. Experience an electrifying night of blues and soul as Linwood Taylor, a bluesman steeped in the traditions of Howlin' Wolf, Jimi Hendrix, and Albert Collins, takes the stage at The Listening Booth. read more  29.01.2025 On Friday January 24, the legendary blues and roots rock group, The Nighthawks, perform at The Room at Cedar Grove. The Room at Cedar Grove is an intimate concert hall and supper club located on Delaware's scenic coast. The legendary blues group The Nighthawks have been traveling the country for over 50 years, playing their free wheeling mix of low down dirty blues, R&B, soul, and rockabilly. The band is led by master harmonica player, vocalist, and blues historian, Mark Wenner. read more29.01.2025 When you hail from the Motor City with a grandmother who sang the blues, and a cousin who was one of the original Motown Temptations, music just kind of rests in your spirit and organically becomes who you are. Pianist, singer, songwriter and producer, Reggie Braxton has aptly honed such impactful melodious roots into his debut release, "The Brax-Tone Experience, " a luxurious jazz infused, heart caressing collection of original and timeless R&B singles. read more
 14.02.2025 Irish guitar hero Mark O'Leary continues to pursue the outer boundaries of improvisation. Here, he aligns with Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset for a polytonal and multihued improv fest. On 2008's Shamanic Voices, with more on the way, the guitarist intermingles acoustic and electric guitar parts with his partner's keen use of disparate percussion objects. Loaded with contrasts, O'Leary shades the proceedings with injections of electronics and a myriad of guitars. Whether he fuses fuzz-toned pyrotechnics with Isungset's shakers, woodblocks, cymbals and drums, O'Leary looms as a unifying force throughout. read more12.02.2025 On Monday, March 8th, 2025 at 7pm at Westbeth, Composers Concordance presents 'Seth & Gene's Excellent Electroacoustic Adventure'. Composers Gene Pritsker and Seth Boustead will perform a duo concert featuring special guests, poets Robert C. Ford and Imelda O'Reilly. read more  08.02.2025 Vocalist MAFALDA MINNOZZI is releasing her fourth jazz album, RIOFONIC, for the USA market produced by New York guitarist, arranger and musical director PAUL RICCI. Recorded in Rio de Janeiro, the album features her beautiful tone, gentle swing, and superb facility for singing in multiple languages. Minnozzi is a touring artist with three home bases. She performs regularly in New York City, where she can be found singing in top clubs like Birdland, Mezzrow, and Django. read more07.02.2025 "Griot Songs firmly plants Omar Thomas in the pantheon of distinguished and exceptional writers." – Grammy-winning drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington In West African tradition, the griot is a storyteller, poet and musician whose songs become a repository for a community's traditions and history. Griot Songs – the third release by the Omar Thomas Large Ensemble – is a distinctly personal and emotionally vibrant take on the role of the modern griot. read more
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