Jazz New Releases - June 2010

New releases and re-releases for June 2010. The best of the new jazz and a selection of key re-releases.

Some great new jazz and some key re-releases. Most notable - a new double album from trombone legend Curtis Fuller, new albums from guitar legends Kenny Burrell and Larry Coryell, new albums from Bill Charlap/Renee Rosnes, Jason Moran, Steve Coleman.......

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Jake Hertzog - Patterns

Album review. His debut album, 'Chromatosphere', announced the arrival of a new distinctive voice on guitar. 'Patterns' consolidates that reputation.


Buckyball

Recorded November 2009 at Tallest Tree Studios, West Orange, NJ

Release date: May 8th 2010

Availability: CD, MP3 Download




At 24, Jake Hertzog is the latest Berklee Music School graduate to be making a burgeoning reputation. His

Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Jasmine

Album review. An album of beautifully crafted love songs played in duet between Keith Jarrett (piano) and Charlie Haden (bass).

ECM

Release date: May 27th 2010

Availability: CD, MP3 Download




'Jasmine' is an album of beautifully crafted love songs played in duet between Keith Jarrett (piano) and Charlie Haden (bass). As Keith Jarrett says:

'Call your wife or husband or lover in late

FREE! Original Jazz Classics Remasters Sampler

Various Artists

Album review. This free OJC MP3 album presents ten jazz tracks of high quality from the immense Original Jazz Classics back catalogu

Original Jazz Classics / Concord

Release date: May 4th 2010

Availability: MP3 Download




This free OJC MP3 album presents ten jazz tracks of high quality from the immense Original Jazz Classics back catalogue of remastered albums.

There are

May 2010 - Focus on Chick Corea

A fine pianist and composer from mainstream jazz to fusion.

Here is a listing of our reviews that feature Chick Corea:

Gary Burton and Chick Corea - Crystal Silence - The ECM Recordings 1972-79



Chick Corea and Hiromi - Duet



Chick Corea and John McLaughlin - Five Peace Band Live



Chick Corea and Gary Burton - The New Crystal Silence



Return To Forever - The Anthology

Joe Henderson – The Standard Joe

Album review. Joe Henderson explores the pianoless saxophone trio in depth. For six years from 1985 through to 1991 it was all that he released.

Red Records

Original release date: March 1991

Recorded in New York on March 16th 1991





Personnel:

Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone), Rufus Reid (bass), Al Foster (drums)

Tracks:

Blue Bossa, Inner Urge, Body And Soul (Take 1), Take The A

Jazz New Releases - May 2010

New releases and re-releases for May 2010

Some strong new jazz........



Tuesday May 11th 2010

Bobby Hutcherson "Total Eclipse" (Zoom)
Yotam "Resonance" (Jazz Legacy)

Tuesday May 18th 2010

Jake Hertzog "Patterns" (Buckyball)
Alex Sipiagin "Generations" (Criss Cross)
Tim Warfield "A Sentimental Journey" (Criss Cross)
David Hazeltine "Inversions" (Criss Cross)
Walt

John McLaughlin & The Fourth Dimension- To The One

Album review. John McLaughlin returns to John Coltrane with six original compositions that are a meditation on the seminal album 'A Love Supreme'.

Abstract Logix

Release date: April 20th 2010

Availability: CD, MP3 Download




John McLaughlin has had a longstanding empathy with the music of John Coltrane as evidenced by critical points in a recording career that now spans five decades. The