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"Hi-Lee" is the opening track of tenor saxophonist Lena Bloch's new CD "Feathery." All of the songs on the album are Bloch originals.

Out on Thirteenth Note Records, March 18, 2014.

http://thirteenthnoterecords.com/
http://www.lenabloch.com/

The CD features Bloch with Dave Miller on guitar, Cameron Brown on bass and Billy Mintz on drums.

Hi-Lee - Lena Bloch

"Never Sleeps" is the opening track from vibraphonist Tyler Blanton's new CD "Gotham."

Out April 22 on Ottimo Music.

All six compositions on the CD are Blanton originals. His band includes Donny McCaslin on tenor saxophone, Matt Clohesy on electric and acoustic bass, and Nate Wood on drums.

http://www.tylerblanton.net/

Never Sleeps - Tyler Blanton

"Nuvem" is an original composition by vocalist Sara Serpa off of her new album "Primavera" with guitarist André Matos. Serpa plays piano on three songs, including this one.

Out April 25, 2014, via Inner Circle Music.

Serpa and Matos are joined here by Leo Genovese on bombo legüero and piano. Guests on other tracks include soprano saxophonist Greg Osby and keyboardist Pete Rende.

http://www.saraserpa.com/
http://www.andrematosmusic.com/
http://www.innercirclemusic.net/

Nuvem - Sara Serpa & André Matos

"Bright Eyes" is an original composition by baritone saxophonist and flutist Andrew Hadro from his new CD "For Us, The Living," featuring Daniel Foose on double bass, Carmen Staaf on grand piano and Matt Wilson on drums & cymbals.

Out April 1, 2014 on Tone Rogue Records.

http://www.andrewhadro.com/
http://toneroguerecords.com/

Bright Eyes - Andrew Hadro

"The Buffalo" is the opening composition within saxophonist and composer Felipe Salles' new five-movement "Ugandan Suite."

Out May 20, 2014 on Tapestry Records.

Featuring:
 
Salles - tenor and baritone saxophones, flutes, bass clarinet and handclaps David Liebman - wooden flute, soprano and tenor saxophones
Damascus Kafumbe - (o)mugalabe, (e)ngom'enene, (e)nduumi, kadodi, inemba, indonyi, mbuutu, mpuunyi, atin bull, min bull, ngalabi drums, ndingidi tube-fiddle, adungu bow-harp, nsaasi gourd shakers, madinda xylophone
Rogerio Boccato - all other percussion, (e)nduumi drums, handclaps
Nando Michelin - piano, handclaps
Keala Kaumeheiwa - bass, handclaps
Bertram Lehmann - drumset, atin bull drums, handclaps
Lucas Apostoleris - handclaps

The Buffalo - Felipe Salles

"Gen Himmel" (German for "toward heaven") is a spiritually meditative composition by pianist Satoko Fujii off of her new album, "Shiki," with the Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York. Originally recorded as the title track to Fujii's 2013 solo CD, the piece is dedicated to Norikatsu Koreyasu, the bassist in Satoko's ma-do quartet who died unexpectedly in 2011.

Out May 27, 2014 on Libra Records.

The Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York features:

Oscar Noriega, Briggan Krauss - alto sax
Ellery Eskelin, Tony Malaby - tenor sax 
Andy Laster - baritone sax
Natsuki Tamura, Herb Robertson, Steven Bernstein, Dave Ballou - trumpet
Curtis Hasselbring, Joey Sellers, Joe Fiedler - trombone
Satoko Fujii - piano 
Stomu Takeishi - bass 
Aaron Alexander - drums

http://satokofujii.com/
http://www.librarecords.com/

Gen Himmel - Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York

"Dudu" is the title track that opens Natsuki Tamura's new Gato Libre CD. It is the fifth release by the trumpeter's working quartet since 2005.

Out May 27, 2014 on Libra Records.

Gato Libre features:

Natsuki Tamura - trumpet 
Yasuko Kaneko - trombone 
Kazuhiko Tsumura - guitar 
Satoko Fujii - accordion 

http://natsukitamura.com/
http://www.librarecords.com/

DuDu - Gato Libre

"Isis" is an original composition by drummer Mark Lomax from his new album, "Isis & Osiris," featuring the Mark Lomax Trio with Edwin Bayard on tenor saxophone and Dean Hulett on bass.

Out September 16, 2014 on Inarhyme Records.

www.marklomaxii.com
www.inarhyme.com

Isis - The Mark Lomax Trio

"The Secret Love Affair" is the first track from trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis' new CD "The Last Southern Gentlemen." It features Marsalis' father, Ellis, on piano along with bassist John Clayton and drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith.

Out September 30 on Troubadour Records. 

The Secret Love Affair - Delfeayo Marsalis

Monk, Bunk, And Vice Versa is the first track from arranger/bandleader Mark Masters' new recording Blue Skylight.  On the CD, he reimagines the music of iconic jazz composers Charles Mingus and Gerry Mulligan.

The album features the Mark Masters Ensemble with veteran players Putter Smith, Gary Foster and Gene Cipriano, among others.

Out Feb. 17 on Capri

Blue Skylight

Monk, Bunk And Vice Versa - Mark Masters

"Convection" is the first track from the Satoko Fujii Quartet's new album "Live at Jazz Room Cortez," available October 20, 2017 via Cortez Sound.

The quartet features pianist Fujii, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, drummer Takashi Itani, and violinist Keisuke Ohta. Something told Fujii to use violinist Ohta instead of a bassist and she went with her gut feeling. The result is an album with a unique group sound and vision that brings fresh insight into her compositions.

Live at Jazz Room Cortez

Convection - Satoko Fujii Quartet

Propensity is the first track from guitarist/composer Rez Abbasi's strikingly original album "Unfiltered Universe" out November 10 via Whirlwind Recordings.

The album features Abbasi's South Asian-inspired supergroup Invocation with saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, pianist Vijay Iyer, bassist Johannes Weidenmueller, and drummer Dan Weiss, as well as guest cellist Elizabeth Mikhael.

It's the third album in a trilogy exploring different South Asian musics.  Where Invocation's 2008 debut Things To Come highlighted the influences of North Indian Hindustani music with guest vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia, and their 2011 follow-up Suno Suno, the Qawwali music of Abbasi's native Pakistan, Unfiltered Universe takes as its point of departure the Carnatic music of South India.

Propensity - Rez Abbasi and Invocation

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Flight Facilities - Arty Boy (Tennyson Remix) with Emma Louise

"Some of These Days" is the first track from jazz vocalist Rebekah Victoria's album "Songs of the Decades," out June 21, 2019 through Patois Records.

The album features Victoria and a group of two-dozen musicians including the Grammy-nominated trombonist, composer-arranger and bandleader Wayne Wallace, who acted as Victoria's partner for the album. He co-produced it, wrote all of its arrangements-often incorporating elements of Latin jazz, his specialty-and assembled its superlative cast of 24 musicians, including improvising vocalist Kenny Washington, Wallace's bandmates from his own various projects, and a string quintet that features members of the San Francisco Symphony.

Though most of Victoria's performance repertoire tends to come overwhelmingly from the era of the Great American Songbook, as she was preparing to record her second album, Victoria was inspired to widen her musical perspective in terms of both time periods and popular styles. Songs of the Decades features a panorama of songs from each decade of the twentieth century.
 
If the album is retrospective, though, it is the furthest thing from nostalgic. "I wanted to make these songs different. I wanted them to sound very new and fresh," says Victoria, who is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. "The idea was to make them as much fun to listen to now as they were in their day, when they were big hits. For the people that really know these songs, they'll get a kick out of the differences."

Songs of the Decades

Some of These Days - Rebekah Victoria

After a long hiatus, my alter ego Noble Barrister has re-emerged - jolted into action by the intensity of 2020 and the urgency of the election - to write and record the rock song “Enough!”  May the song, and the cathartic scream of five simultaneous electric guitar solos towards the end of the track, be of benefit to all!
Many thanks to Noah Cole (drums and mixing) and Liz Muther (chorus backing vocals).
(In the late 1970s, early ‘80s, Noble Barrister and the Absolutes gigged regularly in the Bay Area punk/new wave scene at venues such as the Mabuhay Gardens and Berkeley Square, among others.)

Some of These Days - Rebekah Victoria

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