Debut album by LA saxophonist / flautist co-produced by Carlos Niño documents a transformative recovery from major illness. By no means a secret, but certainly in the category of IYKYK, saxophonist/flautist Aaron Shaw is one of Los Angeles's brightest young jazz musicians. A player's player, and frequent fixture at The World Stage in Leimert Park, Shaw has collaborated with the likes of Anderson Paak, Dave Chapelle, Herbie Hancock, Mary J. Blige, and Shawn Mendes.
Tracklist:
Soul Journey
Heart of a Phoenix
Windows to the Soul
The Path to Clarity
Echoes of the Heart
Jubilant Voyage
Inner Compass
Never Catch Me Out of Alignment
UPC: 198704743085Label: Leaving RecordsRelease Date: 3.20.26Format: Vinyl
"RBGxDD", the inaugural release on Uno Loop Records, marks the debut collaboration between producer Abderraouf B. Grissa (Pink Siifu, DJ Abstract Abder on Radio alHara) and drummer/producer Dan Drohan (Nick Hakim, Olden Yolk, CARRTOONS, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT). Blending experimental hip hop, jazz, and psych-leaning groove music, the album has received wide early support with airplay on BBC Radio, Worldwide FM, KCRW, WFMU, and Bandcamp Weekly, alongside coverage from Bandcamp Album of the Day, Stereofox, Frequency State, and others. For fans of CAN, The Heliocentrics, Tommy Guerrero, and Makaya McCraven, "RBGxDD" sits comfortably between beat culture and live improvisation, appealing across multiple bins.Featuring contributions from Ahmad Kafari (Sudan Archives, Pink Siifu), Jarrett Gilgore (Jamie Branch, Heart of the Ghost), and Bobbie Johnston, and mastered by Kelly Hibbert (Madlib, Knxwledge, Flying Lotus), "RBGxDD" is both musically adventurous and immediately accessible. The LP is packaged with artwork licensed directly from the family of celebrated American printmaker Carol Summers, designed by Daniel Rocha, giving the release strong visual and collectible appeal. As the first title in the Uno Loop catalog, "RBGxDD" establishes the label's curatorial identity. UPC: 5050580868809Label: Uno LoopRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: Vinyl
Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Water From An Ancient Well features the pianist/composer with a very strong septet. Such superior musicians as tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford, altoist Carlos Ward, baritonist Charles Davis, and trombonist Dick Griffin are heard at their most creative and emotional on these eight Ibrahim originals. Many of the melodies (particularly "Mandela," "Song for Sathima," "Water From an Ancient Well," and the beautiful "The Wedding") are among Ibrahim's finest compositions.
Tracklist:
Mandela
Song for Sathima
Maneberg [Revisited]
Tuang Guru
Water from An Ancient Well
Wedding
Mountain
Sameeda
UPC: 767522922219Label: Enja RecordsRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: Vinyl
Electric is the seventh studio album from 2025 Billboard Artist of the Year and 19-time Billboard #1 guitarist / producer Adam Hawley-a forward-thinking collection that pushes contemporary jazz deeper into the streaming era while staying rooted in melody, groove, and emotional connection.
Tracklist:
Electric (feat Everette Harp)
Power Move (feat Jeff Ryan)
New Jack (feat Marion Meadows)
Roller Sk8
Water (feat Kat Hawley)
Automatic (feat Dave Koz)
One Moment
Don't Stop Runnin'
Right on Time
Call Me
UPC: 615678910577Label: A-train/mbfRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: Vinyl
Limited Edition 180 Gram Vinyl. Captured at Brooklyn's Roulette Intermedium in February 2023, Archaisms II focuses on the unique approach to conducted improvisation that each has devised, with a trio of collaborators from the new music relm: Sae Hashimoto and Russell Greenberg of Yarn/Wire and Levy Lorenzo of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).
Tracklist:
Part 1 21:55
Part 2 25:23
UPC: 5214002111359Label: DefkazRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: Vinyl
Sunrise is Rudolph's 63rd release as a leader/co-leader and the result is music that exists on it's own terms, reflecting the wonderful alchemy of the artists as they spontaneously create dialogues, unique orchestrations, and sonic moods in an organic way. This bold, experimental approach is an undercurrent that runs throughout Rudolph's diverse career. As Rudolph explains: "With every record I make, I try to do something have I not done before." Sunrise arrives on the heels of the percussionist's 2025 trio release Beingness with NEA Jazz masters Dave Liebman and Billy Hart. "Creating and spending time with Billy and Dave added to what I learned from so many great elder musicians. I am so fortunate to have been mentored by artists like Yusef Lateef and Don Cherry. What they shared is much more than information; it is a deep kind of transmission of creative attitude and spirit," says Rudolph. "What I gleaned from all my mentors is how important it is to infuse each note of the music with one's spirit, soul and sincere feeling."
Tracklist:
Clouds of Joy 3:16
Stumbled Upon 4:45
Tide Activity 5:28
Nebula 5:25
Lunar Mind 3:22
Sidereal 8:59
Inception 4:41
A Glimmer Glimpsed 3:04
UPC: 638977103211Label: MetaRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: Vinyl
"When we were approached by Adebowale Osunnibu with what would become Kilofese, we knew he had something special. Aside from Fela Kuti's own band, Egypt 80 (lead now by his son, Seun Kuti), it is astoundingly rare to find Afrobeat music being made in it's home of Lagos, Nigeria. In fact, Adebowale performed with Egypt 80 for many years on Baritone Saxophone, deepening his understanding of the music he grew up listening to. This is why when he told us that he was crafting his own music, bringing his voice to the forefront, and working with the next generation of students in Lagos, we couldn't wait to hear it. Given his training in the most long-standing Afrobeat band of all time, we shouldn't have been surprised with what he sent us: an album packed with powerful vocals, cascading horn lines, and relentlessly driving grooves. From the slow-burn of "AJO" to the uptempo frenzy of "Kilofese", each song is carried by a cannon of rhythm to deliver messages of freedom, culture, and joy."Kilofese", translating to "do what you want to do" in Yoruba, is meant in direct opposition to government control. The cornerstone of Afrobeat, distinguishing itself from it's Highlife and Funk predecessors, is the disdain for colonial rule, government corruption and oppression to the common people. With the backbone of James Brown-infused funk, Yoruban sensibilities, and Tony Allen's ingenious drumming, these sentiments were imbued by Fela Kuti to Nigeria and the rest of the world, resounding through decades up to this very moment. Kilofese is an album that reverberates this sound into future generations with originality while maintaining the strength in the classic sound of Afrobeat.
Tracklist:
African Culture
Kilofese
Unnecessary Visitor
AJO
Afro Groove
Kilofese (Bamia Remix)
UPC: 648564357484Label: All-town SoundRelease Date: 10.23.26Format: Vinyl
Afro-Disco Makossa is the first Linear Labs album built for the dance floor, and Adrian Younge is uniquely qualified to make it. Having already recorded modern Afrobeat classics with Tony Allen and Ebo Taylor through Jazz Is Dead, Younge asks a new question: what would a Ghanaian producer in '76 have made if he set out to create an American disco record for his hometown? The result is a relentless, hypnotic patchwork of Afrobeat, funk, and disco recorded to tape, built for the DJ of any era.
Tracklist:
Feel the High Life
Shake Down
Number One
Every Body
Fire in the Disco
Afro-Disco Makossa
UPC: 617308054620Label: Linear LabsRelease Date: 9.11.26Format: Vinyl
If the name The Midnight Hour isn't immediately familiar, the music almost certainly is. Ali Shaheed Muhammad is a founding member of A Tribe Called Quest, one of the most beloved groups in hip hop history. Adrian Younge is the Los Angeles-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who has shaped the sound of some of the most critically admired records of the past two decades. Together, they have been architects of the sound that serious listeners point to when they try to describe what great music feels like.The music they had been making together had a life of it's own. By 2018, it had become The Midnight Hour: their self-titled debut album, recorded to tape with a live rhythm section and a full orchestra, and released to widespread acclaim. In 2020, the duo were deep into sessions for a second album. But then the world shut down, the recordings were shelved. The album never came and remained unfinished and unheard. But now, via their Jazz Is Dead label, The Lost Tapes have been unearthed.
Tracklist:
Harmony
The Midnight Stroll
Constellation
Til It All Falls Down Sam Dew
Water’s Edge
Through My Soul Loren Oden
Mahogany
Donato’s Run
Moreno
UPC: 617308054668Label: Jazz Is DeadRelease Date: 10.23.26Format: Vinyl
If the name The Midnight Hour isn't immediately familiar, the music almost certainly is. Ali Shaheed Muhammad is a founding member of A Tribe Called Quest, one of the most beloved groups in hip hop history. Adrian Younge is the Los Angeles-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who has shaped the sound of some of the most critically admired records of the past two decades. Together, they have been architects of the sound that serious listeners point to when they try to describe what great music feels like.The music they had been making together had a life of it's own. By 2018, it had become The Midnight Hour: their self-titled debut album, recorded to tape with a live rhythm section and a full orchestra, and released to widespread acclaim. In 2020, the duo were deep into sessions for a second album. But then the world shut down, the recordings were shelved. The album never came and remained unfinished and unheard. But now, via their Jazz Is Dead label, The Lost Tapes have been unearthed.
Tracklist:
Harmony
The Midnight Stroll
Constellation
Til It All Falls Down Sam Dew
Water’s Edge
Through My Soul Loren Oden
Mahogany
Donato’s Run
Moreno
UPC: 617308054699Label: Jazz Is DeadRelease Date: 10.23.26Format: Vinyl
Younge is Adrian Younge's magnum opus: an orchestral album written from the perspective of a hip hop producer, and a hip hop record composed with the discipline of classical and cinematic music. It reframes orchestral composition not as nostalgia, but as a living language built for reinterpretation.Inspired by composers like Lalo Schifrin, David Axelrod, Ennio Morricone, Galt MacDermot, Bo Hansson, and later visionaries such as Portishead's Geoff Barrow, the album draws from a lineage of emotionally charged, forward-thinking music that quietly shaped hip hop decades later through sampling. These were records defined by tension, restraint, and atmosphere-qualities Younge places at the center of this work.Recorded entirely to tape at Linear Labs, Younge unfolds like a lost soundtrack from an alternate history: modular compositions, dramatic movements, and themes that feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. The music anticipates reuse-it invites sampling, deconstruction, and dialogue-without ever feeling unfinished.Adrian Younge has spent years testing orchestral music in front of live audiences, refining how large ensembles communicate energy, space, and narrative. That experience is embedded in the record. Every arrangement breathes. Every silence matters.This is not orchestral music collaborating with hip hop. It is orchestral music as hip hop-spoken fluently across time.
Tracklist:
Portschute
Human Absence
Galt
Moon Traveling
Different Directions
Visual Assault
Respond to Sound
Clockwise
Il Mattino
UPC: 617308035766Label: Linear LabsRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: Vinyl
An adventurous jazz recording from the celebrated pianist, blending groove-oriented arrangements with inventive improvisation.
Tracklist:
World Is A Ghetto
Children of the Night
Superstition
Trilby
Sustah Sustah
Soul Girl
Peace at Last
UPC: 199957337489Label: VerveRelease Date: 10.9.26Format: Vinyl
Few pianists in jazz have wielded space and silence as deliberately - or as devastatingly - as Ahmad Jamal. By 1971, his reputation was already formidable: Miles Davis had stated in his autobiography that "all my inspiration comes from Jamal, " his 1958 recordings at the Pershing Lounge had become some of the best-selling jazz albums of the era, and his command of the trio format was without peer. First Impressions captures him on June 25, 1971, at Studio 104 at the Maison de la Radio in Paris - home of the Orchestre Nationale de France - in a performance recorded for the ORTF and preserved in the INA archive for over five decades before finally seeing official release
Tracklist:
Bogotá
Effendi
Extensions
Manhattan Reflections
Poinciana (Encore)
UPC: 8435395505489Label: Elemental Music Rec.Release Date: 10.30.26Format: Vinyl
aja monet is a Surrealist Blues Poet, recording artist, and bandleader whose work moves fluidly between poetry, music, and political expression. Emerging from New York City’s Lower East Side spoken word scene, she became the youngest recipient of the Nuyorican Grand Slam Poetry title before expanding her practice into genre-defying musical performance rooted in jazz, blues, and experimental sound.
Her debut poetry album, when the poems do what they do, earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album in 2024, positioning monetas a singular voice in contemporary Black music and performance. The project blends poetry with live instrumentation and improvisation, exploring themes of resistance, love, and joy through a collaborative, ensemble-driven approach. As a touring bandleader, she has performed at major festivals and venues worldwide, including Newport Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, the Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, the Barbican Centre, and Fremantle Biennale.
In addition to her recorded work, monet is an acclaimed poet and author. Her first full poetry collection, my mother was a freedom fighter (2017), earned a NAACP Image Award nomination for Poetry. Her most recent book, florida water, published by Haymarket Books, draws from several years living and organizing in South Florida and continues her exploration of place, movement, and collective memory.
Her honors include the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry, the Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award, the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award, the EBONY 100 Artist in Residence Award, and the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Vanguard Award. She also serves as Artistic Creative Director for V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, and is the creator of VOICES, a 2022 audio play amplifying the stories of Black women across the diaspora and the African continent.aja monet’s sophomore studio album, the color of rain, will be released in May 2026 on drink sum wtr.
Tracklist:
say it with your chest
elsewhere (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello & Georgia Anne Muldrow)
withness
hollyweird
skinfolk
for the Congo
i came to the poem
to sister (feat. Ganavya & Brandee Younger)
i know that i don’t know
working class musicians
love is a choosing (feat. Mereba)
song of myself
melting clocks (feat. Mick Jenkins & Vic Mensa)
every media minute
indigo
UPC: 617308007343Label: Drink Sum WtrRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: Vinyl
Master of the strings, Al di Meola, turned his back on over-ambitious manual dexterity as he did on ""Elegant Gypsy"" to concentrate more on musical substance, demonstrates his intensive work with the material in the follow-up album ""Casino"".
Tracklist:
Egyptian Danza
Chasin' the Voodoo
Dark Eye Tango
Se¤Or Mouse
Fantasia Suite for Two Guitars
Viva la Danzatina
Guitars of the Exotic Isle
Rhapsody Itaia
Bravoto Fantasi
Casino
UPC: 4260019715654Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
Despite its confrontative title, “Kiss My Axe” is a sombre album, reflective of the mature artist Al Di Meola had become at the time. First released in February 1992, the album is a brilliant showcase of his impeccable technique yet doesn’t overwhelm listeners with it. Di Meola uses his guitar skills rather subtly, enchanting the listeners and inviting them into this album filled to the brim with Latin influences and World Music elements, ranging from Middle Eastern harmonies to African grooves. The result is an immaculately arranged and passionately performed album that is widely regarded as one of the highlights in Al Di Meola’s decades-spanning year career.
UPC: 4029759161455Label: EarmusicRelease Date: 11.25.22Format: Vinyl
“Orange And Blue” was first released in 1994 and is a remarkable testament of Al Di Meola’s unique sense of swing. The legendary guitarist recorded the album on the “Al Di Meola Jazz Guitar”, a custom hollow-body guitar designed in collaboration with Gibson, which allowed him a warmer tone to add to his established signature sound. The album itself is a tasteful collection of explorative compositions, with standout songs such as ‘Chilean Pipe Song’ further cementing Al Di Meola’s growth as a versatile writer and gifted guitarist. UPC: 4029759168584Label: EarmusicRelease Date: 11.25.22Format: Vinyl
Alto saxophonist and flutist Alan Braufman first emerged as a singular voice in New York's 1970s loft-jazz scene with his 1975 debut Valley of Search, a record that would later be recognized as a landmark of spiritual and free jazz. After decades outside the spotlight, Braufman returned with a new wave of acclaim, releasing two highly regarded albums in 2020 and 2024 that reestablished him as both an essential elder and a vital contemporary presence-long described as "a legend in free music" (Gilles Peterson / BBC).Recorded in a single day in the fall of 2025, Anthem for Peace is a fully new studio album that captures Braufman in the present tense. Leading a quartet with vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, bassist Luke Stewart, and drummer Chad Taylor, he delivers concise, hook-forward compositions that move fluidly between gospel-tinged anthems, buoyant post-bop, and hypnotic, eastern-influenced themes. Brennan's vibraphone-shimmering acoustically and occasionally treated electronically-adds depth and color, while Stewart and Taylor form a deeply locked, responsive rhythm section. The result is music that is "playful and light, yet texturally dense" (NPR): optimistic, focused, and driven by a clear sense of forward motion.
Tracklist:
Angels
The Journey
Anthem for Peace
Snow in Central Park
UPC: 650384039310Label: Valley Of SearchRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: Vinyl
Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Jazz enthusiasts rejoice: the legendary Never Let It End by Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet, a seminal 1970 album hailed as one of the most important in the European jazz canon, receives a fresh vinyl pressing from MPS Records. Originally recorded on March 23, 1970, at Walldorf Studio in Frankfurt under producer Joachim Ernst Berendt, this free jazz masterpiece captures Mangelsdorff's innovative trombone mastery alongside Heinz Sauer on saxophones, Günter Lenz on bass, and Ralf Hübner on drums. The album unfolds across dynamic tracks like the opener ""Wide Open"" (3:45), the epic title cut ""Never Let It End"" (9:48) - a Spanish waltz infused with improvisational fire - ""Certain Beauty"" (9:14), ""13th Color"" (6:54), ""Open Mind"" (4:17), ""Roitz And Spring"" (7:14), and the poignant closer ""Nachwort"" (1:50). Mangelsdorff's quartet delivers pared-down power, blending avant-garde exploration with emotional depth, as featured in the expansive Originals retrospective. UPC: 4029759213444Label: MpsRelease Date: 7.17.26Format: Vinyl
Tracklist:
I'm Just a Lucky So and So
Little Girl Blue
East of the Sun
There's a Small Hotel
Stars Fell on Alabama
Thou Swell
My Foolish Heart
You Stepped Out of a Dream
If I Had You
Three Little Words
When Sunny Gets Blue
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home
Blue Room
UPC: 628308831869Label: Cellar LiveRelease Date: 8.28.26Format: Vinyl
Private Mexican lounge that still burns long after the cruise ship disembarks. Armed with a single nylon string guitar, a toy chest of rudimentary percussion, and the emotional microtones of the Spanish tongue, Alejandro Bravo's lone LP blends bossanova, samba, and the Brill Building into a horny margarita for the tourist class. Recorded at home in Acapulco in 1971, Bravo's self-released LP slaps and thrills with it's taps and trills. Pair with a pregnancy test for best results. UPC: 825764165815Label: NumeroRelease Date: 11.6.26Format: Vinyl
Modern jazz guitarist Alex Wintz returns with Collage-a soul-stirring, groove-laden exploration of growth, memory, and life's unpredictable rhythms. Featuring acclaimed players Victor Gould (piano), Matt Penman (bass), and Jimmy Macbride (drums), this vibrant collection of originals and select covers reflects Wintz's journey through marriage, fatherhood, and the road-tested life of a touring musician. From the joyful propulsion of "Pondhop" to the reflective warmth of "Better Half," Collage offers a rich sonic palette that bridges modern jazz, blues, and world influences. A must-have for fans of Pat Metheny, Julian Lage, and Lionel Loueke, this album highlights Wintz's deep compositional voice and masterful guitar tone. Recommended If You Like: Joshua Redman, Etienne Charles, Gilad Hekselman. For Fans Of: Modern jazz, lyrical guitar, small group interplay, NYC jazz scene
Tracklist:
Pondhop
Apt 3C
Innings Eater
Better Half
The Shadow Of Your Smile
The Wheels Of Justice
Isn't It A Pity
It's Been A Minute
UPC: 199891009077Label: Outside In MusicRelease Date: 4.10.26Format: Vinyl
Vinyl LP pressing. NYC bass wizard Alexander Claffy brings his favorite musicians back to hallowed Philly ground on this live album recorded at Chris' Jazz where he has played since he was 14. A full circle moment captured on tape, across two nights. This is the first of two volumes of live experimentation featuring the stellar lineup of Seamus Blake, Kevin Hays, Bill Stewart, Jaleel Shaw and Sean Jones.
Tracklist:
She
Bass Introduction
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Piano Introduction / Be My Love
Oriental Folk Song
Without a Song
Just for the Love
UPC: 628308831555Label: Cellar LiveRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: Vinyl
Habibi Funk's new sister label Audible Beauty Records releases A landmark collection retelling the untold story of Malaysian jazz featuring 11 songs from the legendary composer, arranger and pianist Alfonso Soliano, originally recorded for Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) and only released in a run of a few dozen copies for radio broadcast. Widely regarded as one of the foundational figures of Malaysian music, Soliano blended jazz, Latin influences and traditional Malay musical forms into a uniquely local sound of all original compositions. The recordings also feature contributions from some of Malaysia's most important musicians and composers of the era, including Johari Salleh and Ahmad Nawab. The release includes extensive liner notes and previously unpublished archival photographs documenting Soliano's life and legacy. Includes a special gatefold LP with a 12-page booklet attached to the sleeve and featuring in-depth essays, archival photography and historical material. This release is fully licensed from the Soliano family. For fans of Salah Ragab, Ahmed Malek, Mulatu Astatke, and Dollar Brand.
Tracklist:
Masth Chantani
Ida
Surya Pagi
Salah Langkah
Rohana
Bukan Lalang Di Tiup Angin
Petaling Jaya
Rimba
Ku Kan Kembali
Kenangan Abadi
Kejujuran
UPC: 4262568670019Label: Audible Beauty Rec.Release Date: 8.7.26Format: Vinyl
Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios). Recorded at the Coltrane Studio, Dix Hills, New York on November 8, 1970 and live at the Village Gate, New York, New York on July 4, 1970. Originally released on Impulse (9203). Includes liner notes by Alice Coltrane. The death of John Coltrane left not only a musical, but a spiritual void among his many followers and admirers. By aligning himself with the searchers among the new generation, John Coltrane legitimized their quest and set a daunting standard of excellence for those who experiment outside the mainstream of modern jazz. Among those searchers was young Alice McLeod of Detroit, a virtuoso on the vibraphone, piano, organ and harp. John Coltrane had always expressed a fondness for the harp, and while young McLeod never did bring that instrument into the context of Trane's working groups, she did bring her rolling, ecstatic style of piano to bear in the saxophonist's last quartets and quintets as Mrs. Alice Coltrane. JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA, recorded in the fall of 1970, is a serene, composed meditation on the lessons of the 1960's, a mystical work of enduring sweetness and spiritual longing. The concluding cut "Isis And Osiris" (recorded earlier that summer at the Village Gate), is a global village of texture and song, animated by Pharaoh Sanders' gently wafting soprano and Rashied Ali's quicksilver brushwork, as Vishnu Wood's feathery oud, Charlie Haden's woody bass and Coltrane's sweeping harp combine to create a dreamy vortex of sound. The title cut and "Shiva-Loka"-centered around Cecil McBee's sonorous, lyric bass vamps and Tulsi's droning tambourine-are gorgeous evocations of modal jazz and Indian ragas, again exploiting the contrast between Sanders' reedy chants and Coltrane's blissful arpeggios. And then there's "Stopover Bombay" and "Something About John Coltrane, " which reveal the melodious symmetry of Alice Coltrane's piano playing, a singular style deeply imbued in the old time testimonies of the spirituals and the blues.
Tracklist:
Journey in Satchidananda
Shiva-Loka
Stopover Bombay
Something About John Coltrane
Isis and Osiris
UPC: 011105022811Label: Impulse RecordsRelease Date: 6.17.97Format: Vinyl
Nonesuch Records releases Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings by trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson on June 12, 2026. The album features four new compositions by each musician as well as one collaboration. The duo, long admirers of each other’s musicianship, met at Halvorson’s Brooklyn apartment and began playing together periodically as far back as 2015. They rehearsed the music on Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings in January 2025, just before performing it at the New York City club The Stone; they recorded this album the next day at Sear Sound.Halvorson says of the duo’s rapport, “I think it’s partly a shared aesthetic and an ease of communication. I feel comfortable to try whatever.†Akinmusire concurs, “It’s rare to feel like you don’t have to do anything and you can do anything. And that’s what love about playing with Mary.â€During his career, Ambrose Akinmusire has paradoxically situated himself in both the center and the periphery of jazz, most recently emerging in classical and hip-hop circles. He is on a perpetual quest for new paradigms, masterfully weaving inspiration from other genres, arts, and life in general into compositions that are as poetic and graceful as they are bold and unflinching. His unorthodox approach to sound and composition makes him a regular on critics’ polls and has earned him grants and commissions from the Doris Duke Foundation, the MAP Fund, the Kennedy Center, and the Berlin and Monterey Jazz Festivals. While Akinmusire continues to garner accolades, including the DownBeat Critics Poll Trumpeter of the Year for 2025, his reach is always beyond—himself, his instrument, genre, form, preconceived notions, and anything else imposing limitations. Mary Halvorson’s first three Nonesuch records were named Jazz Album of the Year in DownBeat’s annual Critics Poll, where she was also named Guitarist of the Year for the last three years in a row. PopMatters noted in its review of her most recent record, 2025’s About Ghosts, “The latest from guitarist Mary Halvorson is another master class in jazz performance and composition. If she is the future of jazz, we are in tremendously gifted hands ... she’s currently in the midst of what may be her most acclaimed and creatively fruitful period.†And Spin said, “You hear Mary Halvorson play a guitar once—it sticks with you. Her tone, both liquid and spiky, burrows into your nervous system on contact. Using a delay pedal and digital effects, she flattens, smears, and discombobulates single notes, which creates an eerie, addictive effect. Her darting, slippery approach makes her songs simultaneously vaporous, brittle, and kinetic ... Instead of dominating with virtuosity, however, Halvorson prefers to insinuate, often submerging her balletic verve beneath contrasting textures and busy, interlocking rhythms.â€
Tracklist:
Prelude in the Ash (06:04)
This Vivid (04:47)
Nice to meet you again for the first time (05:50)
Soundcheck (03:32)
Watersmoke (03:19)
Tangled Pretty (04:25)
Ofo (04:13)
Blood & Sand (06:18)
Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (07:48)
UPC: 075597892826Label: NonesuchRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: Vinyl
Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire makes his Nonesuch Records debut with Owl Song on December 15, 2023. The album features a trio with two musicians Akinmusire has long admired, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Herlin Riley.“This is my reaction to being assaulted by information,” Akinmusire says of Owl Song. “This record is me wanting to create a safe space. Part of the challenge was: Can I create something that’s oriented around open space, the way some of the records I love the most do?”He says of his collaborators, “I had a feeling of wanting to record with Bill from the first time we played—it was a duo performance, very little rehearsal. We just played through some of my songs, and it worked. One of Bill’s special gifts is the ability to shape a piece he’s just heard for the first time. He seems to know what the music wants before the first note.“With Herlin, his commitment to beauty you can find in the groove. I never like to tell musicians too much about what I’m going for, because it should be about what these particular people bring … I said, ‘I know you’re the right person for this because of the way you approach the groove.’ And, of course, what he did is just beautiful.” He continues, “Also, I wanted to put people together who didn’t seem like they would go together ... and it turns out they haven’t played a lot. So, it was cross generational, cross subgenre, cross whatever.”
Tracklist:
Owl Song 1
Weighted Corners
Flux Fuelings
Owl Song 2
Grace
Mr. Frisell
Mr. Riley
Henya
UPC: 075597905977Label: NonesuchRelease Date: 12.15.23Format: Vinyl
Ancient Infinity Orchestra return with their third album, It's Always About Liberation,a new record that deepens the vision of their acclaimed recent work while moving intodarker, more searching emotional territory.
Tracklist:
Nafas
Akshay
Triton
Illuminations
Celebrating the Beautiful Lineage of Sound ;
Hypnotic States B
Old Friends
Mountain
UPC: 4062548117073Label: Gondwana RecordsRelease Date: 8.21.26Format: Vinyl
André 3000's 7 piano sketches is a collection of instrumental music recorded solo on the piano, marking the first release of new material since his globally lauded 2023 instrumental album, New Blue Sun, earned three GRAMMY nominations, including Album of the Year. Partially composed and recorded prior to New Blue Sun, the beginnings of 7 piano sketches came about almost a decade ago, while staying in a house in Texas with his son that had only a piano, their beds and TV screens. Having lived with the recordings for a time, André was drawn to the idea of creating more and sharing them in the Spring, a time of year that promises that life, creativity, and possibility are ever-renewing. This 10” 45 RPM vinyl is pressed on 120 gram black vinyl.
Tracklist:
bluffing in the snow
and then one day you’ll …
when you’re a ant and you wake up in an awesome mood, about to drive your son to school, only to discover that you left the lig
hotel lobby pianos
blueberry mansions
off rhythm laughter
i spend all day waiting for the night
UPC: 198029419870Label: EpicRelease Date: 1.23.26Format: Vinyl
Acoustic Sounds celebrates Contemporary Records with this new reissue of the West Side Story album by pianist André Previn, bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Shelly Manne. Originally released in 1960, the album contains 8 cuts from the musical soundtrack reinterpreted in a jazz style. Recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann this edition is pressed on 180-gram vinyl pressed at QRP with (AAA) lacquers cut from the original tapes by Bernie Grundman and is presented in a tip-on jacket.
Tracklist:
Something's Coming
Jet Song
Tonight
I Feel Pretty
Gee, Officer Krupke
Cool
Maria
America
UPC: 888072453685Label: Craft RecordingsRelease Date: 5.19.23Format: Vinyl
Inspired by a lifetime of listening to jazz + woodshedding, Andrew Bird on his new album Sunday Morning Put-On presents his take on the Great American Songbook. Andrew Bird Trio features Ted Poor (drums) & Alan Hampton (bass), and transcends nostalgia, pushing his limits as an improviser. Replacing saxophones with violin solos, and showcasing Andrew's signature vocal prowess, the Trio reimagines jazz standards completely live in southern California’s legendary Valentine Studios.
Tracklist:
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
Caravan
I Fall in Love Too Easily
You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
My Ideal
Django
I Cover the Waterfront
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your Face
Ballon de Peut-Etre
*** Indie Exclusive ***UPC: 888072593022Label: Loma VistaRelease Date: 5.24.24Format: Vinyl
After more than two decades as a sought-after sideman and collaborator, pianist and composer Andrew Toombs releases his long-awaited debut as a leader with Alloy. Blending jazz, soul, and hip-hop influences, the album features Makaya McCraven on drums, Junius Paul on bass, guest trumpeters Marquis Hill and Maurice Brown, and spoken word by J. Ivy. What emerges on Alloy is not a debut so much as a declaration: the sound of an artist stepping fully into himself.
Tracklist:
The Slot
Past Souls
Marlou Lane
Subconscious
Off to the Races
Unexpected Party
Beyond
Moodism
Untangling
UPC: 824296418024Label: Shifting ParadigmRelease Date: 10.16.26Format: Vinyl
Andy Bey was one of the most sought-after vocalists in the era of jazz fusion. Between 1968 and 1973 he was first choice as a studio singer for Max Roach, Duke Pearson, Horace Silver, Gary Bartz and Stanley Clarke, to mention but a few. His warm and engaging baritone voice easily crossed the bridge from conventional blues and gospel to a pugnacious, politicising style of soul - Andy Bey was 'spiritual' in every sense of the word. ""Experience And Judgment"", his debut album under his own name, was recorded in New York in 1973 and quickly became a cult album. Bey delivers twelve songs in single length, which are full of relaxed, funky grooves, soulful and electrifying, and quite lacking in gimmickry - in many of them a blues number is lurking in the background as a basic idea. His most important colleagues are Wilbur Bascomb, who let's his electric slap bass really thump out, and Bill Fischer who joins in on an electric piano, synthesizer and various other keyboards and really sets off a little fusion firework display. The most powerful numbers come from Andy Bey himself, such as ""Experience"", ""Judgment"", ""Celestial Blues"", ""Tune Up"" and ""Being Uptight"" - often powering forwards with a vengeance. Bill Fischer - at that time Artistic Director at Atlantic Records - added a few soul ballads to balance out the LP. This album inspired numerous jazz singers, including Gregory Porter. Jamie Cullum says: ""What I love about Andy Bey is that he creates an atmosphere. As soon as he opens his mouth, you're transported to another place. ""This Speakers Corner reissue LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under http://www. Pure-analogue. #com. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid. Recording: July and September 1973 at Regent Sound Studios, New York, by Bob LiftinProduction: William S. FischerRelease date: 12/10/2021Original label: Atlantic
Tracklist:
Celestial Blues
Experience
Judgment
I Know This Love Can't Be Wrong
Hibiscus
You Should've Seen the Way
Tune Up
Rosemary Blue
Being Uptight
A Place Where Love Is
Trust Us to Find the Way
The Power of My Mind
UPC: 4260019716125Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
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