Ennio is a captivating album by Gregoire and Collin Maret, released by Act. This collaboration showcases the unique blend of Gregoire's piano skills and Maret's harmonica expertise, resulting in a mesmerizing collection of tracks that effortlessly fuse jazz, classical, and cinematic influences.The album takes listeners on a musical journey filled with intricate melodies, emotive performances, and rich textures.

Bloom, the ACT debut of pianist and composer Bill Laurance as leader, marks the transition from the smallest possible form of musical interaction to a large-scale, broadband format: Following the internationally acclaimed ACT release Where You Wish You Were in duo with multi-instrumentalist and Snarky Puppy bandmate Michael League, Laurance now teams up with Manchester-based 18-piece string orchestra The Untold Orchestra and creates a work of convincingly epic pro-portions. Combining Bill Laurance’s classical sensibilities with jazz, pop grooves, and powerful orchestral synchronicity, Bloom runs the gamut of emotions and moods.

In March of 2023 composer, arranger & alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi premiered a commissioned suite of music in front of a sold out crowd at London’s Southbank Centre. She wrote the piece – gratitude – for her flagship large ensemble seed., in a special augmented formation that also featured turntablist NikNak and the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO).

I Wish You Love is a English album released on 19 Apr 2024. I Wish You Love Album has 11 songs sung by Greg Chako Trio, Al West Jr..

The Casimir Connection’s new album ‘Reflection’ is out now via Caliban Sounds, in association with One Little Independent Records. Composer and saxophonist Diane McLoughlin’s ensemble explores the boundaries between classical and contemporary jazz. The group features internationally renowned pianist Alcyona Mick, award winning violinist Kit Massey, and acclaimed bassist Tim Fairhall.

With Frames, Antoine Karacostas delivers an album of seven compositions and an arrangement of rebetiko, the band's signature sound. In this opus, he drew his inspiration from painting and pictorial as well as musical impressionism, from French composers such as Emmanuel Chabrier. This album is also a reflection on the notion of framework, both the one we find ourselves in and the one we wish to go beyond, in our personal quest for freedom.

Jordan Hamilton Releases “Union Station” Written on a train going from Chicago to Kalamazoo, the Michigan based cellist and vocalist explores love’s crucial element - timing. Listen to the new song out today.

Having taken Benson along with him when he founded CTI, Creed Taylor merely leaves the guitarist alone with a small group on his first release. The payoff is a superb jazz session where Benson rises to the challenge of the turbulent rhythm section of Jack DeJohnette and Ron Carter, with Clarence Palmer ably manning the organ. Benson is clearly as much at home with DeJohnette's advanced playing as he was in soul/jazz (after all, he did play on some Miles Davis sessions a few years before), and his tone is edgier, with more bite, than it had been for awhile. The lyrical Benson is also on eloquent display in "Ode to a Kudu" (heard twice on the CD, as is "All Clear"), and there is even a somewhat experimental tilt toward Afro-Cuban-Indian rhythms in "Somewhere to the East." A must-hear for all aficionados of Benson's guitar.

Third album by the Eibarrés pianist Mikel Gaztelurrutia, released under the Errebal Jazz label. The title aims to reflect the relationship between black African-American music and the music of European culture. An eclectic album of own compositions and open to improvisation that covers different styles such as swing, pop, reggae, Afro-Cuban and contemporary among others.

Several years of travel and musical research led double bassist Gabriel PIERRE to create this quintet, of which here is the first album. From jazz to hip-hop, drum'n'bass, soul or classical music, Gabriel's group will draw its influences from many diverse musics. But it is in the ever freer interpretation of each musician that the sound of Gabriel’s group is made. In addition to the instrumental quintet, there is the saxophone of Irving Acao, the voice of Katrin, and the flow of Emcee Agora as well as a string quartet on certain pieces. Whether instrumental or vocal, each song has its own story and its own sound.

On L’Affaire Dominici (1973), Alain Goraguer creates a theme of great melodic clarity from a palette of breathy flutes, clavinet D6 baroque textures, wah-wah guitars and slow-paced drums that clearly reminds La Planete Sauvage’s atmosphere.

French composer Alain Goraguer who first made a name for himself as a sideman and arranger for Serge Gainsbourg wrote very few soundtracks, but amongst them, the legendary La Planète Sauvage (1973) is an absolute staple of France’s essential music.

Currently residing in Zurich, Switzerland, guitarist Travis Reuter spent many fruitful years as a leader and top-tier sideman in New York, playing with the Arturo O’Farrill Sextet, David Weiss & Point of Departure, Rajna Swaminathan, Jeremy Viner, Anna Webber, Rudy Royston, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and a host of others.

Second in a series of reissues from Pierre Jaubert’s Parisound studio archive on Strut Record IS Lafayette Afro Rock Band's elusive funk/Afro original album, 'Soul Makossa' originally released in 1973. Transparent blue colored LP.

First in a series of reissues from Pierre Jaubert’s Parisound studio archive on Strut Record IS Lafayette Afro Rock Band's elusive funk/Afro original album, 'Malik,' originally released in 1974. Transparent blue colored LP.