The following Jazz titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland
After The Last Sky [ ECM / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a poignant project, titled after a line of verse by poet Mahmoud Darwish, which asks "Where should the birds fly, after the last sky?" Graceful chamber pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass... |
Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland
After The Last Sky (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a poignant project, titled after a line of verse by poet Mahmoud Darwish, which asks "Where should the birds fly, after the last sky?" Graceful chamber pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass... |
The James Taylor Quartet
In The Hand Of The Inevitable (30th Anniversary Edition) (Double LP) [ Acid Jazz / 2 LP - due 28/Mar/2025 ] The James Taylor Quarter were the original group on the Acid Jazz scene, and 'In The Hand Of The Inevitable' was their 1995 triumphant Top 40 return to the Acid Jazz label. Recorded over a year, produced by James Taylor and Acid Jazz Records... |
Joe Armon-Jones
All The Quiet (Part I) [ Aquarii Records / CD - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Keyboardist, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones shares his most elevated solo project to date, All The Quiet. A galvanising statement of intent, traversing jazz, funk, dub, hip hop, and soul music, entirely written, produced, and mixed by... |
Joe Armon-Jones
All The Quiet (Part I) (Double LP) [ Aquarii Records / 2 LP - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Keyboardist, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones shares his most elevated solo project to date, All The Quiet. A galvanising statement of intent, traversing jazz, funk, dub, hip hop, and soul music, entirely written, produced, and mixed by... |
Joe Armon-Jones
All The Quiet (Part I) (LTD Edition Transparent Orange Double LP) [ Aquarii Records / 2 LP - due 28/Mar/2025 ] Keyboardist, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones shares his most elevated solo project to date, All The Quiet. A galvanising statement of intent, traversing jazz, funk, dub, hip hop, and soul music, entirely written, produced, and mixed by... |
Lonnie Liston Smith
Expansions (AAA 50th Anniversary Edition Gatefold LP) [ Flying Dutchman / Ace Records LP / LP - due 28/Mar/2025 ] "Look at it! There's a guy in a Muslim skull cap and glasses, singing about space and love - wicked! Blows your mind!" Norman Jay Lonnie Liston Smith's "Expansions" is one of the most influential records ever to have been released with its sound... |
Savina Yannatou, Primavera en Salonico, Lamia Bedioui
Watersong [ ECM / CD - due 11/Apr/2025 ] Savina Yannatou's fifth ECM album revolves around the theme of water in its many manifestations. Water as a blessing and a curse. A life-sustaining source and a mortal threat in the elemental power of the storm. |
Chick Corea
Piano Improvisations Volume 1 [ ECM Records / CD - due 18/Apr/2025 ] Recorded April 1971 |
Fred Hersch, Drew Gress, Joey Baron
The Surrounding Green [ ECM / CD - due 18/Apr/2025 ] |
Fred Hersch, Drew Gress, Joey Baron
The Surrounding Green [ ECM / CD - due 18/Apr/2025 ] |
Various Composers
Tales of the Jazz Age Florian Noack [ La Dolce Volta / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Can we go back a hundred years in time? Pianist Florian Noack's new album pushes back the gates of time to rediscover the lifeblood of the Roaring Twenties, which saw twentieth-century music trace a path between partying and war. |
Joe Lovano, Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz
Homage [ ECM / CD - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Joe Lovano and his Polish conspirators from the Marcin Wasilewski Trio are endowed with an especially adventurous spirit on their second joint endeavour for ECM. |
Joe Lovano, Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz
Homage (LP) [ ECM / LP - due 25/Apr/2025 ] Joe Lovano and his Polish conspirators from the Marcin Wasilewski Trio are endowed with an especially adventurous spirit on their second joint endeavour for ECM. Building on the lyrical strengths that inhabited the group's previous recording (Arctic... |
Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin, Markku Ounaskari
Arcanum [ ECM / CD - due 2/May/2025 ] |
Bennie Maupin
The Jewel In The Lotus [ ECM Luminessence Series / CD - due 16/May/2025 ] Bennie Maupin has been an inventive contributor to iconic records including Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi and Headhunters and Marion Brown's Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun. His recordings under his own name have been infrequent... |
Bennie Maupin & Herbie Hancock
The Jewel In The Lotus (LP) [ ECM Touchstones / LP - due 16/May/2025 ] Bennie Maupin has been an inventive contributor to iconic records including Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi and Headhunters and Marion Brown's Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun. |
Mette Henriette
Drifting (LP) [ ECM / LP - due 30/May/2025 ] After Mette Henriette's critically acclaimed, self-titled first recording comes Drifting - an album pervaded by trio conversations of idiosyncratic and original expression. With Johan Lindvall returning on piano, new addition Judith Hamann on cello... |