Challenge Records

  • She’s the Poem
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    She’s the Poem

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    She's the Poem is a series of ten poetic portraits varying from someone you could run into on the streets to an icon like Frida Kahlo. It's an ode to realness: the beautiful and the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 26, 2025

  • Yuri Honing's Peace Orchestra
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    Yuri Honing's Peace Orchestra

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    With Peace Orchestra, saxophonist Yuri Honing presents a new musical chapter where boundaries blur and sounds connect. This unique ensemble brings together a rich palette of influences, rooted in the spiritual jazz of the 1960s...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 26, 2025

  • Behind the Mask
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    Behind the Mask

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    Out of a mutual love of spontaneousness and raw emotions, Belgian guitarist Julien Tassin and Finnish guitarist Heikki Ruokangas decided to start creating music together. As two guitars aiming to sound like one.�In their music,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 12, 2025

  • It's All About Love
    It's All About Love

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    With It's All About Love, seasoned jazz vocalist Donna Byrne makes a radiant return to Challenge Records, delivering her ninth studio album and reaffirming her place among the great interpreters of song. Spanning a rich...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 05, 2025

  • Live at Brussels Jazz Festival (Edition X Flagey 2025)
    Live at Brussels Jazz Festival (Edition X Flagey 2025)

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    Embarking on an exhilarating journey into uncharted musical territories, pianist Bram de Looze assembles a quartet of extraordinary talent, featuring Joey Baron on drums, Thomas Morgan on double bass, and Hank Roberts on cello. This...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 18, 2025

  • Trees on Wheels
    Trees on Wheels

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    Tony Malaby,�Jozef Dumoulin�and�Samuel Ber�explore music made of flow, pulses, textures, angles, memory, rotations, distances, intentions, proliferations, territories, speeds, changes of scale, intervals. Their taste for playfulness pushes them to redefine the music at every moment.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 11, 2025

  • The Magic of Consistency
    The Magic of Consistency

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    The magic of art needs a frame, a somewhat solid container to hold the freedom that can only be found once we integrate some form of structure. And that also holds in every other area...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 13, 2025

  • Dream sequence
    Dream sequence

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    If you make a new album you should call it: DREAM SEQUENCE!� I hope 'Dream Sequence' brings you into a personal space of sound, groove and beauty.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 13, 2025

  • Blues, Reds & Other Songs for Madonna (Vinyl)
    Blues, Reds & Other Songs for Madonna (Vinyl)

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    With sounds that whistle deep blue and remind you of the blues - the origins of jazz? - in his new composition Robin Verheyen takes colors from Jean Fouquet's 'Madonna' and assigns them to his...


    Format: Vinyl

    Release Date: June 06, 2025

  • Blues, Reds & Other Songs for Madonna
    Blues, Reds & Other Songs for Madonna

    $16.99

    With sounds that whistle deep blue and remind you of the blues - the origins of jazz? - in his new composition Robin Verheyen takes colors from Jean Fouquet's 'Madonna' and assigns them to his...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 06, 2025

  • Accidental Tourists - Songs inspired by people & places
    Accidental Tourists - Songs inspired by people & places

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    Markus Burger: It has been a joy to work with such an extraordinary ensemble-my long-time duo partner, Jan von Klewitz, and the legendary rhythm section of Peter Erskine and Bob Magnusson. Together, we've created music...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 13, 2025

  • Primal Colors
    Primal Colors

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    Primal Colors brings together the best of two worlds-the improvisational energy of jazz performed by the Frankfurt Radio Big Band and the majestic grandeur of classical music from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. This synergy is...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 13, 2025

  • Standard - No Standard
    Standard - No Standard

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    In a time when musical genres are constantly in dialogue with one another, Standard - No Standard proves that the jazz tradition is not only alive but also constantly evolving. This album, the result of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 25, 2025

  • Morayo
    Morayo

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    It's a chance encounter between three personalities and their distinct universes that sparked the origin of this magical music. A meeting between jazz, world music and fusion. The prospect of the perfect world where listening...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 11, 2025

  • Gijsman: Recollection
    Gijsman: Recollection

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    I share my personal experiences with the ensemble using materials ranging from graphic scores and written melodies, to photos and stories.�These materials function as unfinished compositions and as such challenge us to creatively connect our...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 07, 2025