Convergence: Live in China is the new album from William Hooker, featuring world-renowned musician and composer John King. It was captured from the duo's 2024 performance at the B10 Festival in Shenzhen. In tune with the open-hearted engagement and palpable respect of the audience, they deliver an exhilarating hour of improvisation. Hooker's thunderous drumming is blanketed by sheets of distorted guitar from King, both playing with formidable intensity. Recorded direct from the soundboard on 10/25/2024, the concert is available in vinyl, CD, and digital formats, with the latter two including three bonus pieces from the performance. Convergence: Live in China is the new album from William Hooker, featuring world-renowned musician and composer John King. It was captured from the duo's 2024 performance at the B10 Festival in Shenzhen. In tune with the open-hearted engagement and palpable respect of the audience, they deliver an exhilarating hour of improvisation. Hooker's thunderous drumming is blanketed by sheets of distorted guitar from King, both playing with formidable intensity. Recorded direct from the soundboard on 10/25/2024, the concert is available in vinyl, CD, and digital formats, with the latter two including three bonus pieces from the performance. Convergence: Live in China is the new album from William Hooker, featuring world-renowned musician and composer John King. It was captured from the duo's 2024 performance at the B10 Festival in Shenzhen. In tune with the open-hearted engagement and palpable respect of the audience, they deliver an exhilarating hour of improvisation. Hooker's thunderous drumming is blanketed by sheets of distorted guitar from King, both playing with formidable intensity. Recorded direct from the soundboard on 10/25/2024, the concert is available in vinyl, CD, and digital formats, with the latter two including three bonus pieces from the performance. Convergence: Live in China is the new album from William Hooker, featuring world-renowned musician and composer John King. It was captured from the duo's 2024 performance at the B10 Festival in Shenzhen. In tune with the open-hearted engagement and palpable respect of the audience, they deliver an exhilarating hour of improvisation. Hooker's thunderous drumming is blanketed by sheets of distorted guitar from King, both playing with formidable intensity. Recorded direct from the soundboard on 10/25/2024, the concert is available in vinyl, CD, and digital formats, with the latter two including three bonus pieces from the performance.

Painting In Sound, Hayes Greenfield's third Sunnyside release, expands the perception of what jazz-and binaural, spatial, immersive music-can be. An acclaimed jazz musician, composer, and electroacoustic artist, Greenfield draws from decades of traditional and improvisational mastery and sonic exploration to create a recording that is resonant and substantial. Captured with Max/MSP and SPAT spatial and binaural software, the album positions the listener inside a fully three-dimensional sound field. Greenfield treats space as an equal voice, shaping air, distance, proximity, and motion with the same care he brings to melody, harmony, and rhythm. Using spatial placement and movement through the immersive field, lines arc and spiral, instruments and textures shimmer, orbit, recede, and tones approach, and dissolve. Rooted in jazz's spontaneity and reaching beyond traditional form, the record extends the line between performance and environment. It is an expansive statement from an artist pushing jazz into new perceptual dimensions.

Happy Today, the third album from guitarist/bandleader Jeff Parker's long-running ETA IVtet, was recorded live at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on August 20, 2025. This fresh entry into the IVtet's catalog captures Parker and the band - including drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson - on record outside of the now-shuttered Highland Park micro-club ETA for the first time.

With every record I make, I try to do something that I haven't done before." states Rudolph. "And with this record I wanted to further explore a kind of trance groove / concept I have been developing that I call 'Sonic Mandala'. Vibe Ride is the fullest expression of that concept because we had been on tour before the recording which allowed us to develop our ideas and tune in to the chemistry between us. It felt so natural, perhaps in part because these musicians have all been performing with me in my Go: Organic Orchestra and Moving Pictures ensembles for so many years and so are very familiar with my music concepts.

From renowned bassist and composer Ben Wolfe comes Any Time After Now, a deeply expressive new album that brings together some of the most exciting voices in modern jazz. Featuring Joel Ross (vibraphone), Sullivan Fortner (piano), Chris Lewis (tenor saxophone), and Aaron Kimmel (drums), the album explores original compositions with elegance, swing, and a cinematic sense of storytelling. Wolfe's signature sound - lyrical, grounded, and harmonically rich - anchors a set of ten tracks that range from uptempo swingers and bluesy grooves to lyrical waltzes and a closing bossa nova. Any Time After Now is a journey through mood and melody, featuring standout soloing and deeply intuitive ensemble interplay. Perfect for fans of acoustic jazz, post-bop, and artists like Ron Carter, Christian McBride, and Bobby Hutcherson, this album blends tradition with a contemporary touch that feels timeless.

Limited Edition 180 Gram White Cream Color Vinyl. Beingness brings together three masters of creative music: award-winning percussionist Adam Rudolph, soprano sax player and NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman, and drummer and NEA Jazz Master Billy Hart.

Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet Happy Today - Led by guitarist Jeff Parker, featuring saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, anddrummer Jay Bellerose, the ETA IVtet is a band that grew out of a weekly residency started byParker in 2016 at Northeast Los Angeles venue ETA. Over seven years of holding down that residency, Parker's ETA ensemble evolved from a bandthat played mostly standards into a group known for it's transcendent, long-form (sometimesstretching out for 45 minutes or more) journeys into innovative, often uncharted territories ofgroove-oriented, painterly, polyrhythmic, minimalist and mantric improvised music.

From award-winning pianist and educator Jeremy Siskind comes Seeking Balance, a deeply felt acoustic jazz album recorded with a stellar trio featuring bassist Darek Oles and drummer Joe LaBarbera, with special guest vocalist Claire Martin. The album moves fluidly between moody originals-including the title track, a modern meditation on contemporary anxiety, and the pointed "Greedy Capitalism"-and luminous interpretations of songs by Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Bud Powell, Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein, and Ezra Furman. Martin's rich, searching voice anchors four vocal tracks, including the deeply personal original "A Photograph" and a haunting take on Cohen's "Everybody Knows." Produced by Siskind and engineered by Talley Sherwood, with mixing and mastering by James McMillan and Michael Scherchen, Seeking Balance is both intimate and expansive-a record that finds beauty and resilience in the act of holding opposites together. Perfect for fans of Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, and Diana Krall, this album blends lyrical depth, harmonic sophistication, and the warmth of acoustic trio jazz with a contemporary sensibility.

It is often the case that the creation successful art comes down to basic factors. For jazz music, talent and creativity are obvious essentials. But what usually drives music further is trust between performers and a sense of spontaneity in performance. Keyboard master Gary Versace aimed to harness all these elements on his new recording, Three Track Mind, a vibrant collection of fresh arrangements of standards and favorites by a fledging trio, featuring bassist Francois Moutin and drummer Rudy Royston. Versace has long been admired for his incredible touch on piano, organ, and accordion, appearing alongside a tremendous and eclectic of collaborators. His playing has adorned the work of artists as diverse as John Scofield, Maria Schneider, John Hollenbeck, and Madeleine Peyroux. Versace is also an accomplished composer and educator. In his catholic approach to musical collaboration, Versace has been fortunate to perform with some incredible musicians, including Francois Moutin and Rudy Royston. Though, opportunities came often to appear on stage with both, the trio had never played all together. Versace first met Royston in performance with the dearly departed trumpeter Ron Miles in Colorado. Once Royston relocated to New York City, the two began performing more and more, including Versace as accordionist in Royston's Flatbed Buggy. Versace and Moutin regularly found themselves on the bandstand, especially behind vocalists. Versace knew that the two would be ideal in trio, as their musicality and energy were ideal for his style of playing. It was with this in mind that Versace invited Moutin and Royston to a two-day session at Chris Sulit's Trading 8s Studio in July of 2024. Versace wanted to create an environment that replicated the feeling of a live set, just interpreting standards and tunes in an open way to provide fresh takes and opportunity for improvisation, delivering a true sense of the music being able to go anywhere. The pieces the trio played were not planned. Versace would introduce the piece and Moutin and Royston would join in as they recognized it. As fantastic individual orchestrators, Moutin and Royston were able to help Versace make incredible, instantaneous arrangements. With all the takes being so different, Versace provided two takes of Joseph Kosma's standard, "Autumn Leaves," to show just how vastly different the trio could play them. Finding just the perfect balance of elements, Gary Versace brings to fore an openminded and expressive trio with Francois Moutin and Rudy Royston. Together they present, Three Track Mind, an intimate and explorative recording of a trio that should not be missed.

From renowned bassist and composer Ben Wolfe comes Any Time After Now, a deeply expressive new album that brings together some of the most exciting voices in modern jazz. Featuring Joel Ross (vibraphone), Sullivan Fortner (piano), Chris Lewis (tenor saxophone), and Aaron Kimmel (drums), the album explores original compositions with elegance, swing, and a cinematic sense of storytelling. Wolfe's signature sound - lyrical, grounded, and harmonically rich - anchors a set of ten tracks that range from uptempo swingers and bluesy grooves to lyrical waltzes and a closing bossa nova. Any Time After Now is a journey through mood and melody, featuring standout soloing and deeply intuitive ensemble interplay. Perfect for fans of acoustic jazz, post-bop, and artists like Ron Carter, Christian McBride, and Bobby Hutcherson, this album blends tradition with a contemporary touch that feels timeless.

Grammy Award-winning bassist Christian Dillingham presents 'As It Relates To Now, ' out May 15, 2026 on CD and vinyl. With Greg Ward on alto saxophone and Jeremy Cunningham on drums, the trio delivers a groove-driven, emotionally charged modern jazz record shaped by the tensions of our time-powerful, searching and deeply human.

'Black Butterfly' is Brooklyn Funk Essentials eighth studio album and includes the bands recent hits 'Never Give Up', 'Bust The Bus Stop' and 'Life During Wartime'. Playlisted on BBC Radio 2 and Jazz FM and supported by Craig Charles and Cerys Matthews at 6 Music as well as many stations across Europe and the Americas. The album was produced and co-written by bassist Lati Kronlund and features Alison Limerick, Ebba Asman and Desmond Foster on vocals. Kronlund and Limerick have been enjoying the recent renewed interest in 'Where Love Lives'. Kronlund wrote and produced it for Limerick in 1990, it was remixed by Frankie Knuckles and David Morales and became a club classic and was featured in this year's John Lewis Christmas TV Ad. Arthur Baker heard the original in a club in 1991 that he contacted Kronlund about working together and they then formed Brooklyn Funk Essentials. Since then, Brooklyn Funk Essentials have built a devoted international following and notched up over 100 million streams. Fusing Soul, Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Jazz, Latin, and, of course, Funk, the band's journey began experimenting with drum machines and loops in Baker's Shakedown Sound Studio in Jersey City-hunting for that perfect beat. The early recordings featured greats such as Maceo Parker, Lenny Pickett, Tower of Power Horns, Michigan & Smiley, and Dizzy Gillespie, leading to the acclaimed debut 'Cool & Steady & Easy' (1994). Fast-forward to April 2024, when Kronlund reunited with Baker in Miami, rediscovering recordings featuring percussion prodigy Bashiri Johnson, which inspired new creative sparks for the next chapter of Brooklyn Funk Essentials. The band's acclaimed catalogue also includes 'In The Buzzbag' (1998), 'Make Them Like It' (2000), 'Watcha Playin' (2008), 'Funk Ain't Ova' (2015), 'Stay Good' (2019) and 'Intuition' (2023).