A mixed set of new releases with a broad selections of styles in play including a preview of the type of material likely to land on Record Store Day in April 2026 i.e. the ubiquitous “previously unreleased material”. Early indications are that there will be a flurry of material from archives. Pending that here is a bakers dozen plus one of artists striving to extend existing jazz boundaries to exciting new places.
PLAYLIST
- Andrew MacKelvie “Realities Blossom” from Many Worlds (Watch That Ends The Night) 00:00
- Dave Douglas “Ruminants” from Four Freedoms (Greenleaf) 07:31
- Björn Meyer “Motion” from Convergence (ECM Records) 16:08
- Connor Bernhard “Jackalope” from Pathways (BACE Records) 21:13
- Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra & Sean Irvine “Movement II - Texas” from Forgotten Stories Suite (Chronograph Records) 28:03
- Eva Novoa “Stilte Cabine” from Solo (I) (577 Records) 41:20
- Gregory Hutchinson “Fall” from Kind Of Now - The Pulse Of Miles Davis (Warner Music) 47:49
- Kenny Wheeler Sextet “Blue Nile” from What Was (False Walls) 54:46
- Roy Hargrove “Circus” from BERN (Time Traveler Recordings) 1:05:39
- Karen Stachel, Norbert Stachel & LehCats with Giovanni Hidalgo “Power Tap” from LIVE @ The BreakRoom (Purple Room Productions) 1:14:38
- Jimmy Farace “Chelsea Bridge” from Big Shoulders, Big Sounds (Shifting Paradigm Records) 1:26:53
- Maria Schneider “American Crow” from American Crow (ArtistShare®) 1:36:11
- Devin Gray “Doom Loops/Hz of Gold” from Hz of Gold (Rataplan Records) 1:46:28
- Mark Turner Quartet “Patternmaster” from Patternmaster (ECM Records) 1:54:54
