Europe Jazz Media Chart - August 2017

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Europe Jazz Media

A selection of the hot new music surfacing across the continent this month by the top European jazz magazines and websites.
 
Henning Bolte, Jazzism (Netherlands):

Marcelo Dos Reis & Eve Risser «Timeless» (JACC Records)

trailer on YouTube | album trailer on BandCamp | listen on SoundCloud

Henning Bolte comments:
This is musical sounds on the fringe mostly JUST HAPPENING. It is surprising how it finds open places for beautiful musical sound and how it opens to the music of the spheres and inside the listener.
 

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Johan Jacobsson, Orkester Journalen (Sweden):

Pat Thomas «The Elephant Clock Of Al Jazari» (OTOroku)

listen on SoundCloud | buy on Discogs | album on label website
 

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Cim Meyer, Jazz Special (Denmark):

Olli Hirvonen «New Helsinki» (Edition Records)

trailer on YouTube | album trailer on BandCamp | listen on SoundCloud | buy on Amazon | listen on Yandex.Music | listen on Spotify (registration required) | listen on Tidal (registration required) | buy on Discogs | album on the artist’s website | album on the label’s website

Cim Meyer comments:
A personal approach to composing, arranging and new lines for the six strings – and a focused live band as well.

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Lars Mossefinn, Dag & Tid (Norway):

Bergen Big Band & Dag Arnesen «Norwegian Song IV» (Odin)

trailer on YouTube | listen on Spotify (registration required) | listen on Deezer (registration required) | album on label website

Lars Mossefinn comments:
Dag Arnesen has released Norwegian Song I-III as trio recordings. Here we have some of the material arranged for big band, and the lyricism from the trio recordings is well preserved. Bergen Big Band demonstrates once again why they are one of Norway’s leading big bands.
 

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Axel Stinshoff, Jazz thing (Germany):

Roscoe Mitchell «Bells for the South Side» (ECM)

trailer on YouTube | buy on Amazon | album on the label’s website
 

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Luca Vitali, Giornale della Musica (Italy):

Luca Aquino «Aqustico Vol. 2» (Riverberi – Losen Records)

one track on YouTube | buy on Amazon | album on the artist’s website | album on label website
 

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Paweł Brodowski, Jazz Forum (Poland):

Adam Bałdych & Helge Lien Trio «Brother» (ACT)

Release scheduled for August 25, several tracks’ preview available on the label’s website

Paweł Brodowski comments:
Following „Bridges” from 2015, this is the second outing on ACT of the Polish violin whiz and Norwegian piano trio, with a guest appearance by saxophonist Tore Brunborg. Dedicated by Adam Bałdych to his departed brother, the new recording – blending jazz, classical and folk music – is based on his original compositions, one exception being Leonard Cohen’s „Hallelujah”. Polish lyricism, Norwegian melacholy, empathy and musicianship of highest order. To be released on CD and vinyl by the end of August.
 

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Rui Eduardo Paes, Jazz.pt (Portugal):

Per Gardin / Pedro Lopes / Rodrigo Pinheiro «History of the Lisbon Chaplaincy» (Creative Sources)

album trailer on BandCamp (free download available)| album on label website

 

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Mike Flynn, Jazzwise (U.K.):

Courtney Pine «Black Notes From The Deep» (Freestyle Records)

Release scheduled for October 27, preview available on the distributor’s website or in Juno web store
 

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Anna Filipieva, Jazz.Ru (Russia):

Anatoly Osipov/Alexey Nadzharov «Postjazz» (Bomba-Piter)

listen on Yandex.Music | album on the label’s website

 

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Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts (Norway-Denmark):

James Blood Ulmer With The Thing «Baby Talk» (Trost/The Thing Records)

a fragment of the performance at the Molde Jazz Festival, which was later used for this live album, on YouTube | album in the Polish web store Serpent
 

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Christine Stephan, Jazzthetik (Germany):

Laurent Coulondre «Gravity Zero» (o-tone/Edel:Kultur)

trailer on YouTube | listen on SoundCloud | listen on Spotify (registration required) | album on the artist’s website

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