This triple album was recorded in July 2022 in a Festival celebrating the 45th anniversary of ICTUS Records. The top US and Eu 18 improvisers were on fire for 4 days in several combinations. Elliott Sharp, Steve Piccolo, Steve Swell, Ellen Burr, Andrea Centazzo, Steve hubback, Carlo Actis Dato, Sergio Armaroli, Elio Barilari, Julia Miller, Franco Feruglio, Francesca Gemmo, Elisabeth Harnik, Harri Sjostrom, Jeff Schwartz, Vasco Trilla, Roberto Ottaviano, Guido Mazzon

DANCE SKIP HOP

Raw and unpolished in the DIY spirit of it's time, Norm Norman channels new wave swagger and catchy hooks into this compact, restless document of a lone creative voice cutting through the noise of his time.

Channelling the restless energy and angular hooks of early '80s post-punk and indie rock, Great Tradition is Din's singular full-length snapshot - a sharp, urgent statement, brimming with the restless creative spark that became their calling card.

Sonny Stitt's 1974 Cadet burner finds the bebop veteran tearing through a heavy electric rhythm section, locking his trademark bite into a deep soul-jazz groove. With Roland Hanna, Ron Carter, and a killer New York lineup behind him, 'Satan' stands as one of Stitt's fiercest and funkiest studio snapshots of the 1970s.

TEXAS-SIZED BAND

REEL

STANDARD QUESTIONS

Founded in 2006 by broadcaster, DJ, and cultural tastemaker Gilles Peterson, Brownswood has spent the last 20 years championing forward-thinking artists who sit just left of centre: rooted in Afro-diasporic music but never confined by genre. Twenty Years Deep is a snapshot of that journey: a carefully curated collection spanning the label's early breakthroughs, cult classics, and defining moments. Twenty Years Deep brings together tracks that reflect Brownswood's long-standing commitment to artistic freedom, musical lineage, and future-facing sounds. From deep jazz explorations and dancefloor mutations to global collaborations and genre-defying hybrids, the compilation captures the connective thread that has defined the label since day one: trust in artists and belief in music that lasts. Rather than a greatest-hits exercise, Twenty Years Deep functions as an archive and a statement documenting how Brownswood has maintained it's own point of view. By following a highly instinctive approach to A&R the label has shaped music culture, introduced new voices, and built a catalogue that continues to resonate well beyond release cycles.

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.

Chet Baker At George Jazzcaf� was recorded live in 1983 at George Jazzcaf� in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and at New Morning, Paris France. Dutch Jazz pioneers Wim and Ria Wigt had the privilege of supporting Chet's lifestyle by offering him a steady series of concerts that suited his way of living and traveling. The line-up often changed, depending on the tour. These four live recordings were made during a memorable run with two outstanding musicians from Copenhagen: veteran pianist Duke Jordan and bassist Jesper Lundgaard. The album offers a first selection from the tapes of a tour which took place at George Jazzcaf� in Arnhem and New Morning in Paris. Chet Baker performs "Walkin'," "Solar" (written by Miles Davis) and "Star Eyes" all three recorded at George Jazzcaf� as well as "September Song" recorded at New Morning. All tracks are available on CD for the first time. Booklet includes liner-notes by Wim and Ria Wigt, an original review published in the Dutch newspaper de Gelderlander in 1983 and an excerpt from the book George Jazzcaf�: An Arnhem Legend 1974-1996 released in 2024.

With her riveting Blue Note debut Diavola, vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa makes her artistic arrival with 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 & Don Was, Diavola is a collection of original songs and luminous arrangements that features an extraordinary cast of collaborators with Jeff Parker on guitar, Paul Cornish on piano, Larry Grenadier on bass, Brian Blade on drums, and Redman on tenor saxophone.

CLASSIC 1960S ALBUMS

TEMPUS

FOR BARITONE SAX DOUBLE BASS AND DRUMSET

NOW IN TIME

2025 was a year of milestones for me: I had a big birthday and I was about to record my 20th album as a leader. The 20th album felt really important; I wanted to celebrate my time in New York City and musical achievements. I imagined a party and jam session where all of my loved ones were present, a time where we would play music and laugh and eat good food and have a real party. "House Party" is that dream come true. On this record you will hear my long-time rhythm section (more than 20 years of music!!) Hide Tanaka on bass and Fukushi Tainaka on drums. Sitting in with us is Cory Weeds, my long time touring partner, musical collaborator, and founder of Cellar Live Records on tenor sax. Also sitting in with us is Klas Lindquist, my newest collaborator, on alto sax. In the audience we have my friends and business associates spanning many years. We played, we talked, we laughed, we partied. This album represents all that is good and beloved in my life, I hope you feel the same spirit when you listen!

The Cecil Taylor Unit's performance at Salle Pleyel in Paris on November 3, 1969, was a notable moment in avant-garde jazz. Featuring Cecil Taylor on piano, Jimmy Lyons on alto saxophone, Sam Rivers on tenor/soprano saxophone and flute, and Andrew Cyrille on drums, the concert showcased the group's intense, free jazz style. The recording was transferred from the original tape reels at INA and restored and mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. Includes an extensive booklet with rare photographs from the show and liner notes by acclaimed jazz critic and author Phil Freeman.

Members... Don't!, the tour-de-force new release by acclaimed drummer and composer Tyshawn Sorey, offers a bold reinterpretation of Max Roach's landmark album Members, Don't Git Weary, connecting it's message of resilience in the face of struggle to the present day. Recorded during the turbulent year of 1968 - after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy and amid widespread social unrest - Roach's album served as a call for perseverance in the fight for justice. Sorey approaches this music not as repertory, but as living material: something to reshape and reimagine for our own turbulent time. He expands and reframes the material through a contemporary lens, expanding the music into a sweeping suite that draws inspiration from symphonic works and the extended works of Charles Mingus. Recorded live at the end of a four-night engagement at New York's Jazz Gallery, the group - Adam O'Farrill on trumpet, Mark Shim on tenor saxophone, Lex Korten on piano, and Tyrone Allen on bass - maneuvers through the music's precarious turbulence with virtuosity and inspiration. Over more than ninety minutes, Sorey's ensemble gradually accumulates intensity before arriving at the album's shattering climax, delivered in an ecstatic performance by vocalist Fay Victor; an exhortation that in times of crisis and turmoil, we all must remain resolute and persist "until the work is done."

5 MILES TO JEROME

2026 release. Most recently seen as John Adams on HBO's smash-hit "The Gilded Age," Claybourne Elder's debut album uses his favorite music from the Great American Songbook, Sondheim, Whitney Houston, and beyond. "If The Stars Were Mine" explores sex, fatherhood, religion and love. Clay recently starred on Broadway as Andy in the Tony Award-winning revival of Company with Patti LuPone. Elder is a SAG Award, Grammy, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominee who's brought laughter and heart to audiences nationwide with roles in Sunday in the Park with George, Bonnie and Clyde, and Torch Song. His TV and film credits include "The Carrie Diaries," "FBI," and "Bad Cupid."

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IMPRIMIENDO

Elemental Music proudly presents Michel Petrucciani - "Kuumbwa", an extraordinary never-before-released recording captured live at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California, on May 11, 1987. - This breathtaking performance documents the only known tour of a short-lived trio featuring Michel Petrucciani (piano), Dave Holland (bass), and Eliot Zigmund (drums), three giants of modern jazz in peak creative form. - Restored from the original analog tapes and mastered by Matthew Lutthans. Limited Edition 2-CD Digipak

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 into ever tinier grains of data and smeared into a sparkling blur. Moran and Gilmore receive glimpses into their immediate past, or even further back in time, like they're playing into a broken mirror - not just cracked in it's visual plane, but in the sense of it's shards shattering time and light, showing them past and future.