Jazz

ARBRE is a collective consisting of three focused musicians: Mélusine Chappuis sings and plays keyboards, Paul Butscher sings, plays flugelhorn and keys, and Xavier Almeida plays drums. The three are constantly evolving, both individually and as a band, as their album... 

When an artist follows trends, “electric” can sound like a gimmick. But with Donald Byrd, it’s a natural evolution. On “Electric Byrd”, electronic textures become an organic extension of his unmistakable lyricism, never artificial, always personal. With Duke Pearson on... 

Award-winning vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa makes her artistic arrival with her Blue Note debut, Diavola, an album that unveils her range as a band leader, a songwriter, and a fearless song interpreter who treats each gesture with subtlety and reverence. Co-produced by Joshua Redman... 

'Leftovers' is a deeply personal meditation on memory; the moments, emotions, and experiences that linger long after they've passed. Conceived as a collection of life's emotional fragments, the album connects past and present through raw, unfiltered performance. The album's title... 

After decades as an in-demand composer/arranger, and a co-leader of Denver’s acclaimed H2 Big Band, pianist Dave Hanson took his 2024 week-long Artist in Residence at Denver’s Dazzle Jazz club to put focus on his piano playing and his small group arranging, resulting in this... 

Lars Jansson: piano Erik Söderlind: electric and acoustic guitars Niklas Fernqvist: acoustic bass Paul Svanberg: drums Almost two years after the group’s first album, What The Moment Brings, the follow-up is here. A few minutes into the first song, it... 

Wellspring presents a powerful new voice in creative music, unrelenting in passion and invention; always transmitting a deeply empathic grace. Masterful composer-improviser DoYeon Kim is an unparalleled practitioner of the Korean gayageum (silk-string zither) and possesses a... 

Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren invites listeners into the
quiet, reflective world of Along the... 

Mood Ellington is a lavishly ambitious collection from acclaimed vocalist Paul Marinaro, presenting twenty-five of Duke Ellington’s finest vocal compositions, vividly reimagined by thirteen of the world’s most celebrated arrangers—including Alan Broadbent, John Clayton, Bill... 

Shards is a oneness of performance and transformation, transformation as performance. As Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore play,
BlankFor.ms records micro fragments of time and sends them back to his collaborators sped up, slowed down, reversed, broken... 

Surrounded by the brilliant musical family who have centered his band for years—bassist Rodney Whitaker, pianist Rick Roe and drummer Quincy Davis—guitarist Randy Napoleon calls back four of his fleet-fingered, virtuoso former guitar students to share the stage and build... 

New York vibraphonist Ted Piltzecker returns to Denver for a follow-up of his 2023 release, Vibes on a Breath, this time though in an open quartet setting with his vibes brought to the front, adding inspired interplay with virtuoso trumpeter Brad Goode while also supplying the... 

A virtuoso of Indian and Brazilian-Portuguese descent, New York City guitarist Bobby Rozario is a third-generation musician, mentored by his parents in Hindustani Classical music while thoroughly pursuing the sounds of jazz and blues. His blazing, idiosyncratic style interprets melodic... 

Picking up where 2024’s Stanco's Time left off, trumpeter Anthony Stanco’s 3rd album resides in the gritty, soulful world of hard bop. Captured live at Traverse City’s The Alluvion—a space brimming with energy & history—the album channels the... 

Art Tatum, one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, showcases the full range of his virtuoso piano playing here. “Complete Masterpieces Part 2” offers a collection of outstanding recordings that combine technical brilliance with emotional depth. 

With this debut recording, Belgian pianist Milan Verbist takes another leap in a career that’s felt destined to thrive since he was a young boy. The music and activities that filled the days of his father, esteemed bassist Piet Verbist, supplied Milan with a deep well of... 

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Recently honored with induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences through his decades-long status as a prolific bassist and preeminent jazz educator, Rodney Whitaker also continues his role as a consummate interpreter of original music, notably... 

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