The new Esperanza Spalding feels like Robert Wyatt in bed with Judy Garland. It has that organic intellectualism that implies ‘I put twelve spells on you because you’re mind’

Esperanza Spalding's '12 Little Spells' is her seventh album released on October 19, 2018 by Concord. Visual artist Ethan Samuel Young has directed the video version of the album.

Esperanza Spalding

Rolling Stone



...that will make your head spin with its exquisite intergenre oddity, like the prog-meets-pop-meets-spoken-word mini opus

WBGO



..a word that connotes both the benefactions of the Muse and the more routine business of breathing.

Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells

AMAZON . ITUNES .

"Junjo" by Esperanza Spalding is her debut album released on April 18, 2006. >>

Esperanza Spalding's "Emily's D+Evolution" is here fifth album released on March 4, 2016 by Concord. >>

Released on August 17, 2010, "Chamber Music Society" is the third studio

Playing Coltrane

Dave Liebman, Wayne Shorter, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman, McCoy Tyner, Ravi Coltrane, Christian McBride, Roy Haynes, Bobby Hutcherson, Marcus Miller, Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Branford Marsalis, Raul de Souza, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Wes Montgomery, Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, etc

FRE:SH STRAIGHT UP JAZZ 02 Episode 8/10

EIGHT hours of newly released straight up jazz albums. Shuffle it! : Brian Bromberg . Jim Rotondi . Kenny Barron Trio . Ken Peplowski . Herlin Riley . Dr. Lonnie Smith . Three’s Company . Willie Jones III . . .

Brian Bromberg - Full Circle

From New Orleans to Michael Jackson’s music. With Arturo Sandoval, Bob Sheppard, Kirk Whalum, Doug Webb, Randy Waldman, Mitch Forman, Otmaro Ruiz and Alex Acuña. On Mack Avenue

Jim Rotondi - Dark Blue

The veteran NY trumpeter teams up with David Hazeltine (p), Joe Locke (vb), David Wong (b) and Carl Allen (d). On Smoke Sessions Records

Kenny Barron Trio - Book Of Intuition

The ever young 72 years legend teams up with his regular associates : Kiyoshi Kitagawa on double-bass and Johnathan Blake on drums. On Impulse!

Ken Peplowski - Enrapture

In the Moods

From 'In The Mood' to 'I'm In A Dancing Mood' , we have mixed 14 'Simply Jazz' tunes around the theme of 'Moods, Good or Bad'. It has Alfonzo Blackwell, The Mar-Keys, Les Baxter & His Orchestra, Joe Lovano and many more.

Fire Departments

From 'Burnin' Coal' to 'Fuegos artificiales' , we have mixed 18 'Jazz & Latin' tunes around the theme of 'Four Elements (Fire)'. It has Jazz Crusaders, Sonora Ponceña, Eddie Harris, Celia Cruz and many more.

Sound Prints – Live At Monterey Jazz Festival

Released on April 7, 2015, "Live At Monterey Jazz Festival" is the debut album by Sound Prints, a quintet co-led by Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas and featuring pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Linda Oh and drummer Joey Baron.

Sound Prints – Live At Monterey Jazz Festival

The Art of Cool Project



It’s only appropriate that Sound Prints would put together this Shorter-influenced set, as the band’s name is a nod to Shorter’s classic tune “Footprints”.

allmusic



Inspired to continue the creative spark they ignited at that event, saxophonist Lovano and trumpeter Douglas conceived of a group that would play original compositions, as well as new material from Shorter. The Financial Times

The band switches tack, changes mood and explores the byways of each theme with wit,…

Dave Douglas – High Risk

Released in June 2015, "High Risk" is album by trumpeter Dave Douglas with Shigeto (DJ), Jonathan Maron and Mark Guiliana

Dave Douglas - High Risk

Pitchfork



High Risk is not so much an album of jazz augmented by electronic instrumentation, but an album performed by players that are very conscious of and interested in electronic music. It's not just Saginaw dithering with a laptop, but also Guiliana mimicking delay trails on his kit or emulating the oddball swing of chopped and spliced rhythms

allmusic



The entirely improvised tracks on High Risk are gorgeously loose and in the moment, a mélange of what the album dubs "electro-acoustic" jams with Douglas' lithe trumpet framed by Shigeto's atmospheric, layered electronics. All About Jazz

Douglas brings his own thoughts and processes to…