Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah to Release New Album, “Stretch Music”

Music will be accompanied by release of associated app

By JazzTimes

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey to Release Live Album, Comic Book

Band will also tour from Sept.-Nov.

By JazzTimes

Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap to Release Jerome Kern Tribute Album

Sept. 25 release date for collaboration

By JazzTimes

Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the 20th century's most important American composers of musical theater and popular music. He produced more than 700 songs, creating musical elements used in more than 100 stage works, collaborating with such lyricists and librettists of the era as P.G. Wodehouse, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg and many others. His compositions include "Ol' Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "The Way You Look Tonight," "Long Ago and Far Away" and many more.

THE SILVER LINING: THE SONGS OF JEROME KERN

Musicians:
Vocals: Tony Bennett
Pianos: Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes
Bass: Peter Washington
Drums: Kenny Washington

Arranged by Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap

GUITARIST/COMPOSER GILAD HEKSELMAN TO RELEASE HOMES
 

from www.jazzcorner.com

His Fifth Album as a Leader Available on the JazzVillage Label (distr. harmonia mundi)October 9 (North America) & October 2 (Europe)

Homes Features Gilad Hekselman - Guitars, Joe Martin - Bass,
Marcus Gilmore - Drums (except track 10), Jeff Ballard - Drums (tracks 3, 10)

CD RELEASE CELEBRATIONS:
For a full list of Gilad's extensive tour dates please visit www.GiladHekselman.com
Gilad Hekselman - guitar, Joe Martin - bass, Marcus Gilmore - drums
October 2: The Cornelia Street Cafe - NYC
October 5: Smalls Jazz Club - NYC
November 6: The Bronx Museum, NY (w/Reuben Rogers & Ferenc Nemeth)


GILAD HEKSELMAN TRIO: HOMES
The Gilad Hekselman Trio's new recording, Homes, fills you with quiet enthusiasm. You listen to it - or rather experience it as a contemplative contrast to the artist's complex identity in a globalized world: identification with his origins, the variety of places he has lived and worked, his musical models and influences, his place among family and friends, and his place within the history of his art. This recording reflects Gilad's relationships with his many homes; physical, geographic, musical and spiritual.

With this opus 5 (on JazzVillage, distributed by harmonia mundi) the six-string prince is celebrating a dozen years since his arrival in New York City, and also a decade of making music with his bandmates, double-bass player Joe Martin, and drummer Marcus Gilmore. The triumvirate is featured on Gilad's Words Unspoken, Hearts Wide Open and This Just In. On these essential recordings, and now with Homes, one could find abundant evidence that these formidable musicians form the ideal trio.

TENDER TRIO SUITE
Homes is a true suite in musical terms: the prelude is repeated in the finale and the twelve tracks pass through a number of diverse moods. The dominant feeling is one of great tenderness. That is no doubt the keyword for this CD - and there is a story behind it.

In 17th century Paris, the first feminist writers invented an imaginary "geography of love" map. On their wonderful "Carte du Tendre" (the Tenderness Map, a huge publishing success at the time), the heart and body were depicted as countries, emotions as rivers, various stages of love were cities, and passion, a wild sea. In the same way Homes is the intimate mapping of a young musician on the threshold of a musical zenith, who loves life and love as much as the music and instrument he plays - you feel that all of this mingles easily within this artist.

One piece, "Verona", is actually dedicated to the city of Romeo and Juliet near Venice and the mythical "home" of all lovers. Full of contrast, this piece really develops like a love affair, alternating gentleness with exaltation. It is also a fine example of the impressive cohesion of a trio establishing itself as one of the very best in jazz today.

THE TRIO
Virtuoso Joe Martin, with his powerful, woody sound, was the pillar of the Mingus Big Band (a supreme honor he fully deserved), prior to revealing his talent as a composer on the album, "Not by Chance", recorded with Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter and Marcus Gilmore. In addition to his essential participation in this trio, he also holds the bass chair in Anat Cohen's Quartet, Mark Turner's Quartet, and is simply one of the most sought-after bassists on the NYC scene.

Marcus Gilmore is the grandson and fortunate heir of Roy Haynes, one of the last of the great historic jazz drummers - still active at 90 years of age. In both men can be found the same miraculously magical balance between cymbals and skins, as well as the same ability to shape and color music that can conjur gasps and other communiqué of delight from audiences.

But if we really want to find models for Gilad Hekselman's trio, we look at those of Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans or Keith Jarrett whom Gilad listened to so much. Over the years, the fusional human and musical relationship they developed and the exceptional interplay they achieved, are precisely what make the biblically accented lament, "Eyes to See", so marvelous.

GILAD HEKSELMAN AND THE MUSIC ON HOMES
In New York jazz clubs or anywhere else in the world, bebop, three-quarters of a century after it was invented in Manhattan, remains the trial by fire for young jazz players. It's a sport: get it wrong and you risk losing face. Just listen to Bud Powell's "Parisian Thoroughfare", because when it comes to bebop, Gilad Hekselman and his friends are serious customers, as Parisian jazz-speak has it. Gilad's trio provides a joyously exhilarating version of this piece. You can just imagine the exchange of knowing glances between them: besides the fact Gilad says that Paris is one of his favorite cities, this track is a pinnacle of controlled speed and a high point on the album.

There are other very different tracks which reveal a more "psychedelic" side to Gilad's playing; Jimi Hendrix inevitably comes to mind listening to "Space" and "Cosmic Patience", together a sort of day-dreamy waltz of the cosmos, deceptively slow and quiet and which wildly take off at the end.

To those who have compared him, often wrongly, to Pat Metheny, Gilad Hekselman has a fine retort; his spare and graceful "Last Train Home" (a duo with special guest Jeff Ballard) is without a doubt the best performance as yet recorded.

Gilad Hekselman's guitar style is extremely varied, reflecting his career. We can hear him "naked", ideally sober, in "Home E Minor", a solo worthy of the classical guitar greats. This also reminds us that, for a musician, a key (in this case E minor) can in itself be a "home".

Among his musical "Homes", there is Africa. It is there in the title "KeeDee", which is the central drum used by people from southern Ghana and Togo. Like the three musketeers who were really four, Jeff Ballard comes in to wind up the trio on "KeeDee", and it ends in fireworks. Brad Mehldau's drummer (and before that drummer with Ray Charles then with Metheny) has enormous fun with Marcus Gilmore.

Brazil is there too, mixing in more discreetly. With impressive counterpoint artistry, the trio surpasses itself in an overwhelming performance of a bossa nova masterpiece, "Samba em Preludio": magical music by Baden Powell to a poem by the "Rimbaud of Rio", Vinicius de Moraes. Nobody has ever sung better of love at a distance.

Here we are, back again at the heart of the "Tenderness Map", the geography of love which definitely seems to be the theme of this CD: a universal love as expressed in the sublime "Dove Song" dedicated to the emblematic dove of peace.

Pertinently pointing out what in Gilad's music is new and interesting, critic and philosopher Michel Contat sees in it, a blessing in these times of trouble and fear: that music should express "peace and love" without sounding mawkish is probably the best way to rise above all that.


Please Visit: www.GiladHekselman.com, www.JazzVillageMusic.com


Press Enquiries on Gilad Hekselman and Homes, Please Contact:
Jason Paul Harman Byrne at Red Cat Publicity - 646 259 2105, redcatjazz@mac.com
www.RedCatOnTheLoose.blog...

More Information: http://www.giladhekselman.com 

ANIMATION’s Final Album, “Machine Language,” to Be Released Sept. 25th

Group was founded by late Bob Belden; Kurt Elling and Bill Laswell guest

By JazzTimes

Following up on his recent UK chart success with the re-mix of Soul Town, Ola Onabule's new album "It's The Peace That Deafens" is his 8th studio album and marks a departure from his previous two releases featuring a largely acoustic set uniting Jazz, Soul and world influences. The Album contains 12 evocative songs about identity, reconciliation and nostalgia. Words, melodies and rhythms that walk a delicate tightrope of paradoxes, born of both a childhood and adulthood immersed in two disparate cultures, on two different continents and at two different times. Ola stated recently that "It's The Peace That Deafens" is as much a work of exploration as it is a declaration.

Spanning over two decades, Ola's career has been a testament to his passion and perseverance. Ola has blazed his own trail at every step: first turning away from expectations and leaving behind an education in law, then choosing to work outside the system of big record labels, he has gone on to build recording studios, set up his label Rugged Ram Records, and tour tirelessly around the world. Now a regular presence at some of the world's premier festivals and concert halls as well as featuring with award winning symphonic orchestras and big bands, Ola looks forward to taking this new album to wider audiences around the world.

More Information: http://www.ola-onabule.co.uk/

Julian Lage Plans New Trio Release in ‘16

Telecaster-centric album will mix pre-bebop and original songs

By Jeff Tamarkin

“Big Band Holidays” Album Due from Wynton and JALC Orchestra

René Marie and Cécile McLorin guest

By JazzTimes

Track Listing:

1. Jingle Bells
2. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant
3. White Christmas
4. ‘Zat You Santa Claus? featuring René Marie
5. A Cradle in Bethlehem
6. We Three Kings
7. What Child Is This? featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant
8. Merry Christmas Baby
9. It’s Easy to Blame the Weather featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant
10. I’ll Be Home for Christmas featuring René Marie
11. Good Morning Blues featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant
12. Band Introductions

The 2015 Big Band Holidays U.S Tour

Featuring The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Denzal Sinclaire and Audrey Shakir

December 2 – Portland, ME – Merrill Auditorium
December 3 – Orono, ME – University of Maine, Collins Center for the Arts
December 4 – Providence, RI – The Vets
December 5 – Hartford, CT – The Bushnell
December 8 – Rochester, NY – Eastman Theatre / Kodak Hall
December 10 – Newport News, VA – Ferguson Center for the Arts
December 11 – Chapel Hill, NC – Memorial Hall
December 12– Bethesda, MD – The Music Center at Strathmore
December 17 – 19 (includes matinee and evening performances on December 19) – New York, NY – Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

Barb Jungr records new album in New York

Earlier this month Barb Jungr recorded Shelter From The Storm at Sears Studios in New York, due for release on Linn Records in early 2016.

Shelter From The Storm sees Barb, one of the UK's finest interpreters of song, join hands across the Atlantic with Laurence Hobgood, the American progressive and contemporary jazz piano virtuoso. This exciting new album project was recorded with Calum Malcolm at the controls and is co-produced by Calum, Laurence and Barb. Supporting musicians include Michael Olatuje on bass and percussionist Wilson Torres.

In his first major collaboration since his work with Kurt Elling (with whom he won a GRAMMY for the album, Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman), Laurence Hobgood said: 'I'm not just thrilled to be collaborating with Barb Jungr; I'm energised, inspired and downright giddy at having (been) matched with a "musician's singer" - a superb vocalist whose musical intelligence is its own formidable, evolved force with which to reckon. And the reckoning is a blast!'

Shelter From The Storm includes three original songs by Barb and Laurence, alongside material by Dylan, Cohen, Mitchell, Springsteen, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Sondheim, Peter Gabriel and Bacharach and David.

The release will be supported by a major UK, European and Stateside tour in 2016.

from www.linnrecords.com

John Coltrane: Complete Love Supreme Sessions To Be Released 

Rounding out the 50th anniversary year of the release of John Coltrane’s seminal album, A Love Supreme, comes news that all Coltrane fans have been waiting years for. The Impulse! label is releasing for the first time on 20 November every take and overdub from the two-day Love Supreme sessions that took place at Rudy van Gelder’s studio from 9-10 December 1964, from which the original album was produced and first released in February 1965. On the 9 December Coltrane recorded sessions for the four-part ‘Love Supreme’ suite, which formed the classic album with his quartet of pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones.

The sessions on the 10 December added saxophonist Archie Shepp and second bassist Art Davis for additional takes of the tracks recorded the day before, two of which were released on the 2002 Love Supreme Deluxe Edition, along with the only know live recording from the Antibes festival in July 1965. Now, with the discovery of further lost session reels, A Love Supreme – The Complete Masters will be available from 20 November in 2CD and 3CD formats. The 2 CD set will include the original album together with two previously unreleased mono reference tracks from Coltrane’s own collection and seven additional unreleased takes from both sessions, including all six takes of ‘Acknowledgment’.

The set will also include a 32 page book by noted writer Ashley Kahn, author A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album, which will feature Coltrane’s musical sketches, notes and ‘A Love Supreme’ poem. The 3CD Super Deluxe Edition set includes all of the above plus the 1965 live at Antibes disc and is presented in a larger format with additional sleeve notes by Carlos Santana.

from www.jazzwisemagazine.com