New Releases – Jazz in Europe

New Releases

New Release Friday: This Week’s Playlist Updates

This week’s selection runs from a saxophonist’s second single through a nonet album rescued from label limbo, a horn-driven record built around displacement and migration, and...

Hristijan Risteski releases 2nd Single “Summer,”

Hristijan Risteski releases “Summer,” the second single from his debut album Waters Dance, tomorrow — a change of pace from “Coming Home” that gives a...

Kilian Sladek releases “All Yours” featuring Joo Kraus

Munich vocalist and composer Kilian Sladek releases “All Yours”, the second featured-guest single from his forthcoming album Colorblind, today. The track features trumpeter,...

Belgian Jazz, Lefto’s Ear: Jazz Cats Vol 4 Arrives

I’ve been keeping half an eye on the Jazz Cats series since its first volume, mostly because Lefto Early Bird has never been a curator who waits for consensus to catch up...

Karel Eriksson and the Sound Pollution Eclectic

Karel Eriksson has spent the better part of a decade building Sound Pollution Eclectic into one of Vienna’s more stylistically restless bands. With The Path North, released...

Tobias Hoffmann’s Debut Album Gets a Second Life

Tobias Hoffmann’s debut as a bandleader is back where anyone can hear it. Six years after it first appeared on the Austrian label Alessa Records, Retrospective has found a...

New Release Friday, This weeks playlist updates.

Four records this week span cosmic jazz, jazz-funk homage, and two albums I flagged last time round that are still very much worth your attention. Here’s what’s...

Meshell Ndegeocello Announces New Album Synonym

Meshell Ndegeocello has never been an artist who stays still, and her new album Synonym confirms it once again. Due October 2 on Blue Note, it may be the most audacious record of...

Completing the Archive: Marty Ehrlich’s Open Air

On August 28, Out Of Your Head Records releases Open Air: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill, a two-disc set led by Marty Ehrlich that brings together...

New Release Friday playlist updates

Friday again, and the new releases have dropped. Our New Jazz Releases Spotify playlist is updated each week with the tracks that have genuinely caught our attention — the ones...

Carlo Muscat: That’s About It, and That’s the Point

In a Kyiv studio kept alive by a generator through the worst blackouts of the war, Carlo Muscat and a Ukrainian ensemble recorded an album of ballads. It isn’t a protest...