From New Amsterdam Records: New Releases

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In all of our presenting and recording activities, NewAm holds firmly to its mission to support artists whose work lies outside of traditional music industry infrastructure – whether that be classical, pop/rock/indie, jazz, world, or experimental. In pursuit of this calling, NewAm often collaborates with like-minded organizations. Our past and ongoing partnerships with the River to River Festival, Ecstatic Music Festival, Art of Elan, the Indianapolis Symphony (multi-year residency), MoMA PS 1, Liquid Music, Galapagos Artspace and National Sawdust have yielded high-profile opportunities for our artists to present their work. On the records side, we often partner with other labels in order to offer our artists the best possible representation for their projects. Partner labels have included Bedroom Community (Iceland), Nonclassical (UK), One Little Indian (UK), Sono Luminus (USA), Cantaloupe (USA) and NNA Tapes (USA).

NOW AVAILABLE:

William Brittelle’s
Without Chasms

Jordan Munson’s
Until My Last

out on
New Amsterdam Bandcamp Subscription
+ all digital platforms

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John Schaefer

For new music by living composers

newsounds.org from New York Public Radio

https://www.wnyc.org/
93.9FM
https://www.wqxr.org/
105.9FM
http://www.thegreenespace.org/

For great Jazz

88.3FM http://wbgo.org/

WPRB 103.3FM

Dan Buskirk Spinning Jazz Mondays 11:00AM-1:00PM
Will Constantine Jr, Blues Bop and Beyond Thursdays 11:00-2:00 featuring Latin Jazz
Jerry Gordon Serenade to a Cookoo Frdays 11:00AM-2:00PM with Jerry’s Room at 1:00Pm
Jeannie Becker Sunday Jazz 10:00AM-1:00Pm

Please visit The Jazz Loft Project based on the work of Sam Stephenson
Please visit The Jazz Loft Radio project from New York Public Radio

From Blue Note: New releases

From Blue Note

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label, owned by Universal Music Group and currently operated in conjunction with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the characteristic “blue notes” of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. While the original company did not itself record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

KANDACE SPRINGS RETURNS WITH INDIGO OUT SEPT. 7
Singer & pianist Kandace Springs returns with the Sept. 7 release of Indigo, a set of originals & choice covers produced by Karriem Riggins that showcases the full breadth of Kandace’s artistry from smoldering R&B to gorgeous jazz ballads to the pop songcraft of the album’s lead single Don’t Need The Real Thing. Indigo is available to pre-order now on vinyl, CD or download. Kandace will kick off a headline tour Sept. 28 in the U.S. followed by shows across Europe & Asia. Visit http://www.kandacesprings.com for a list of her upcoming concerts and ticket info.

CHARLES LLOYD & THE MARVELS + LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams Vanished Gardens is a fascinating collaboration between the NEA Jazz Master saxophonist & acclaimed GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter that bridges different musical worlds from Jazz & Blues to Americana, Country & Rock creating a thrilling and uplifting new sound that Rolling Stone says “shows how the many currents of American music all flow into a single stream.” Watch an interview with Charles & Lucinda HERE , and catch them on tour including appearances at Newport Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Norah Jones has been back in the studio following her muse down creative pathways without any expectations or boundaries. Her new song It Was You is an organ-and-horn-drenched soul number that is the 2nd in a series of singles following the riveting My Heart Is Full.”Norah also released the DVD/Blu-ray concert film Live at Ronnie Scott’s , which features an intimate trio performance with Brian Blade & Christopher Thomas at the famed London jazz club. Norah will play a run of shows in California this Fall including her debut appearance at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Visit http://www.norahjones.com for ticket info.

five-ways-keep-your-child-safe-school-shootings
Please help promote STEM in your local schools.

Stem Education Coalition

John Schaefer

For new music by living composers

newsounds.org from New York Public Radio

https://www.wnyc.org/
93.9FM
https://www.wqxr.org/
105.9FM
http://www.thegreenespace.org/

For great Jazz

88.3FM http://wbgo.org/

WPRB 103.3FM

Dan Buskirk Spinning Jazz Mondays 11:00AM-1:00PM
Will Constantine Jr, Blues Bop and Beyond Thursdays 11:00-2:00 featuring Latin Jazz
Jerry Gordon Serenade to a Cookoo Frdays 11:00AM-2:00PM with Jerry’s Room at 1:00Pm
Jeannie Becker Sunday Jazz 10:00AM-1:00Pm

Please visit The Jazz Loft Project based on the work of Sam Stephenson
Please visit The Jazz Loft Radio project from New York Public Radio

From Cuneiform Records: “Cuneiform Records Newsletter: JUNE 2018”

From Cuneiform Records

Jump to Upcoming Concerts

New Releases

Thumbscrew [Michael Formanek / Tomas Fujiwara / Mary Halvorson]:

Ours and Theirs

As you know, Cuneiform Records ceased releasing new material and laid off its staff on December 31, 2017. The Thumbscrew trio subsequently encouraged label owner Steven Feigenbaum to resume operation; see Steve’s Message to Friends of Cuneiform Records: Two Toes Back in the Water

Steve agreed to release two new recordings by Thumbscrew: Ours, an album of original Thumbscrew compositions, and Theirs, featuring Thumbscrew performing works by others. Released and distributed worldwide by Cuneiform June ?? 2018, Ours and Theirs are available in CD and digital (standard & HD) formats. They are the first releases of newly recorded material to come out on Cuneiform in physical and digital formats since the label’s re-emergence.

Spring 2018 Releases:

Steve Tibbetts Steve Tibbetts

HD digital format reissue of guitarist Steve Tibbetts’ first, self-titled album from 1977. Available only in digital format and only from Bandcamp. Release date: May 4, 2018. (No promotional copies).

Digital-only reissues of five albums

Alec K. Redfearn and The Seizures
Exterminating Angel

Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores
May You Dine On Weeds Made Bitter By The Piss Of Drunkards
Every Man For Himself & God Against All

Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores
The Smother Party and Bent At The Waist

See the full article here .

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Please help promote STEM in your local schools.

Stem Education Coalition

John Schaefer

For new music by living composers

newsounds.org from New York Public Radio

https://www.wnyc.org/
93.9FM
https://www.wqxr.org/
105.9FM
http://www.thegreenespace.org/

For great Jazz

88.3FM http://wbgo.org/

WPRB 103.3FM

Dan Buskirk Spinning Jazz Mondays 11:00AM-1:00PM
Will Constantine Jr, Blues Bop and Beyond Thursdays 11:00-2:00 featuring Latin Jazz
Jerry Gordon Serenade to a Cookoo Frdays 11:00AM-2:00PM with Jerry’s Room at 1:00Pm
Jeannie Becker Sunday Jazz 10:00AM-1:00Pm

Please visit The Jazz Loft Project based on the work of Sam Stephenson
Please visit The Jazz Loft Radio project from New York Public Radio

From Naxos: Three Naxos albums in the Best Classical Album cateogry for the 2018 Libera Awards

Naxos

Best of luck to:
Boris Giltburg for his recording of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s Vítězslav Novák’s ‘In the Tatra Mountains’
Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s album featuring Aaron Copland’s Symphony No. 3.
Thank you, A2IM!

Press release

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Naxos Records is the world’s leading classical music label as measured by the number of new recordings it releases and the depth and breadth of its catalogue. Naxos was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born entrepreneur based in Hong Kong. Under his continuing stewardship, Naxos has developed from being known primarily as a budget label focusing on standard repertoire into a global music group comprising a raft of downloading and streaming platforms, a significant catalogue of multimedia products, a vast international logistics network, a recording engineering arm, a publications division, and a licensing department.

Naxos, the record label, has transformed into a virtual encyclopaedia of classical music with a catalogue of unparalleled depth and breadth. Innovative strategies for recording exciting new repertoire with exceptional talent have enabled Naxos Records to develop one of the largest and fastest-growing catalogues of unduplicated repertoire. Some 9,000 titles are currently available at affordable prices, recorded in state-of- the-art sound, both in hard format and on digital platforms. Naxos works with artists of the highest calibre and its recordings have been recognised with numerous Grammy® awards, Penguin Guide 3-star recommendations, Gramophone Editor’s Choice Awards and many other international honours.

Naxos still stays true to its original promise of offering great value. Costs are kept to a minimum by focusing on the music rather than the artist; money is not wasted on expensive artist promotions, and profits are invested into recordings of new music rather than multiple versions of standard repertoire already in the catalogue. Naxos recordings include complete cycles or cycles-in- progress of basic repertoire, such as the complete piano works of Liszt or the complete string quartets of Haydn, but the label has also introduced music lovers to many neglected composers, such as Joachim Raff, Ferdinand Ries and Simon Mayr. It has also helped to put contemporary composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, John Corigliano and William Bolcom in reach of a much wider audience. Additionally the label continues to add to the numerous world première recordings it already has to its credit.

Naxos Records also has gained stature by pioneering groundbreaking projects like the American Classics series. Currently numbering about 200 titles, the series is set to be the most comprehensive recording project of American concert music ever attempted. Naxos is also leading the field with the landmark Naxos Historical Series. The releases in this massive restoration project are engineered by leading restoration engineers/artists. The series covers all genres of classical music as well as legends of jazz and pop music from the first half of the 20th century. Other notable Naxos series include Japanese Classics, Spanish Classics, Early Music, Organ Encyclopaedia, the Guitar Collection, and Opera Classics. The catalogue of Naxos World, a pioneering world music label, includes international music of many different cultures and genres, folk, pop and classical alike.

All this, together with the development of a range of apps and ebooks, demonstrates the Naxos commitment to providing the best possible access to recorded classical music in the world.

Naxos Records is part of the Naxos Music Group. For a comprehensive presentation of the group’s services and products, please visit http://www.naxosmusicgroup.com.

For new music by living composers
newsounds.org from New York Public Radio

For great Jazz
WPRB

Dan Buskirk Spinning Jazz Mondays 11:00AM-1:00PM
Will Constantine Jr, Blues Bop and Beyond Thursdays 11:00-2:00 featuring Latin Jazz
Jerry Gordon Serenade to a Cookoo Frdays 11:00AM-2:00PM with Jerry’s Room at 1:00Pm
Jeannie Becker Sunday Jazz 10:00AM-1:00Pm

Please help promote STEM in your local schools.

Stem Education Coalition

The Rebirth of Musicsprings: Record Releases, Living Composers and Musicians, New Sounds, Great Jazz

musicsprings will be revived if I can get news like this of new releases.

From Innova

If There Were Water
Displacement in our time
Composers:
Stratis Minakakais
Gregory W. Brown
Performers:
The Crossing
Donald Nally

Duo Damiana
Castillos De Viento
Description:
Castles in the wind
Composers:
Hebert Vázquez
Michael Fiday
Shafer Mahoney
Chen Yi
Jesse Jones
Performers:
Duo Damiana
Molly Barth
Dieter Hennings

Dolce Suono Trio
American Canvas
Description:
A thrilling trialogue
Composers:
Jennifer Higdon
Andrea Clearfield
Zhou Tian
Shulamit Ran
Performers:
Dolce Suono Trio
Mimi Stillman
Nathan Vickery
Charles Abramovic
Lucy Shelton
Gabriel Cabezas
Alexis Pia Gerlach

From Cuneiform

In the mansion that is Raoul Björkenheim’s music there are many rooms, and the Finnish-American guitar explorer opens up a particularly vivid and volatile new portal with Doors of Perception, his third Cuneiform release with his quartet Ecstasy. The album captures an extraordinary working ensemble stretching into transfixing new spaces, settings defined as much by texture, vibe and sinuous melodic lines as by rhythmic and harmonic structures.

Featuring the innovative drummer Markku Ounaskari, Björkenheim’s longtime partner in sonic exploration, the young and dauntingly prolific bassist Jori Huhtala and saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen, Ecstasy continues to expand its sonic palette. Over the course of seven years the musicians have forged a riveting communion. Capaciously inventive, rigorously gutsy and unapologetically Nordic, the music flows from the forbidding Finnish landscape and the hothouse Helsinki scene that gave birth to the band.

One sure sign of the quartet’s deep connection is the way they distill ideas. Sequenced as a stream of consciousness train of impressions, Doors of Perception features 10 tracks that all clock in under five minutes. Rather than exploring extended forms or expansive soundscapes the music is marked by pithy statements and compressed drama. Which isn’t to say Doors of Perception lacks grandeur.

While Björkenheim is no stranger to long musical structures, he was after a different kind of narrative arc on Doors of Perception. Much like each piece is a finely calibrated aural microcosmos, the album proceeds from track to track with its own internal logic. “In a way it is countercultural,” Björkenheim says. “It’s an invitation to a listener to enter in the world that might be disorienting. I don’t hear a walking bass, is this jazz? It might be a little bit of a challenge, but it’s also an invitation.”

With Doors of Perception, Björkenheim and Ecstasy offer something all too rare these days, a musical journey in which the destination is unknown and unpredictable.

Trying to make France’s Art Zoyd fit into a single neat description is an exercise in futility. Sometimes they’re fiendish sonic saboteurs bent on destroying listener’s preconceptions about the way music works. Sometimes they’re musical sorcerers conjuring strange but bewitching moments of lyrical beauty.

You could call them the original post-rock band, moving on from the dark, stormy sounds of prog legends like Magma and King Crimson to something that makes even those fearless explorers sound conventional by comparison. You’d be equally accurate in dubbing them avant-classical composers, whose experimental visions are influenced by Stravinsky and Schoenberg.

They were members of the notorious Rock In Opposition (RIO) movement alongside the likes of Henry Cow and Univers Zero. They’re impressionistic soundtrack composers. They’re a band. They’re a multimedia collective. Ultimately they’re simply Art Zoyd. And it takes a document as massive and monumental as the 12-CD/2-DVD/2-Book set 44 1/2 to even come close to offering a comprehensive picture of what they’re all about.

Containing hours of live and unreleased material from the vast Art Zoyd archives, 44 1/2 delves into the dense jungle of wildly diverse periods in a story that goes all the way back to the ’70s. But it also provides many of the missing links in their long, knotty discography, filling in the gaps between their official releases and weaving together all of Art Zoyd’s disparate stylistic strands into a majestic, multicolored, even imposing tapestry.

From New Amsterdam

Dissections
Invisible Anatomy

Without Chasms
William Brittelle

A Dance That Empties
Subtle Degrees

All Can Work
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble

Rounder Songs
Emily Pinkerton, Patrick Burke, and NOW Ensemble

Orpheus Unsung
Steven Mackey and Jason Treuting

For the best in streaming new music of living composers, visit https://www.newsounds.org/ from New York Public Radio

John Schaefer

For the very best in Jazz, WPRB 103.3 FM or wprb.com
Monday 11AM-1PM Dan Buskirk Spinning Jazz
Thursday 11AM-2PM Will Constantine Jr. Blues, Bop and Beyond featuring in the last hour great Latin Jazz
Friday 11AM-2PM Serenade to a Cookoo with Jerry Gordon, and the last hour Jerry’s Room
Sunday 10AM-1PM Jeannie Becker Jazz Music