2024

GRAMMY winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Norah Jones' ninth solo studio album Visions is a collaboration with producer and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels that is introduced today with the official video for the album's lead single "Running." The song was co-written by Jones and Michels and features Norah on vocals, piano, guitar, and bass with Leon on drums and baritone saxophone.<br/> <br/>Visions is a vibrant and joyous 12-song set that finds Jones singing about feeling free, wanting to dance, making it right, and acceptance of what life brings. It's the yang to the yin that was Pick Me Up Off The Floor, Jones' last album of new original songs which was released early in the pandemic lockdown of 2020 and foreshadowed many of the dark emotions of that period.

MONICA Z AT ATLANTIS AND POLAR STUDIOS<br/><br/>In our Swedish catalogue, we have a couple of albums with highly acclaimed Swedish jazz singer/actress Monica Zetterlund.<br/><br/>Monica started her career 1958 och worked during the year with jazz giants like Bill Evans, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Toots Thielemans and others. Miles Davis was very fond of her. She had an amazing career, not only as a singer but also as an actress. One of Sweden's most beloved artists ever. She was signed to BMG in 1989 and during the years we released 6 albums. The first three albums were a huge success and it was an fantastic comeback for her. Monica also had many fans outside Sweden but tragically passed away 2005.<br/><br/>In the early 90's, BMG recorded some of her "Swedish" songs in English and the plan was to release an album internationally. Songs that did appear with Swedish lyrics on three of her bestselling albums from the 90's.The release didn't happened and the tapes were put away and forgotten. I've tried to find out why the release didn't happen but haven't got any good answer. <br/>A couple a years ago the tapes were found and Swedish media got notice about these recordings and fans have reached out to us to have them released.<br/><br/>So, we have together with the producer put together an album of these 9 recordings. And it sounds really great.

Basisten, cellisten och kompositören Lars Danielsson tillsammans med två andra jazzstjärnor: finska trumpetaren Verneri Pohjola och brittiska gitarristen John Parricelli. Musiken fångar den unika atmosfären från inspelningsmiljöns lugn, skönhet och intimitet på slottet Château Palmer i Bordeaux, Frankrike.

Nu, 30 år senare (!), släpper ECM åtta tidigare outgivna låtar från den legendariska livekonserten "At the Deer Head Inn" (1994). Keith Jarretts trio med Gary Peacock och Paul Motian bjuder på mer godis från en förtrollande kväll fylld av spelglädje och spontana infall.

Pianisten Jan Lundgren mötte den brasilianske gitarristen Yamandu Costa på en middag i Malmö 2019. Det sade "klick" direkt och de började prata om att göra något tillsammans. Deras första konsert som duo ägde rum i Stockholm på våren 2023. Ett år senare var de mogna att spela in detta album. En piano-gitarr-duo det slår gnistor om!<br/><br/> LIRA GILLAR! Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa "Inner Spirits"

Bach Jazz: Bach Jazz 2024 [Digipack / CD]

Legendariske gitarristen Mike Stern har hyllats för sin unika spelstil sedan han först slog igenom på 1970-talet. Han har spelat med storheter som Blood, Sweat & Tears, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, The Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Yellowjackets med flera. Nu har Stern samlat en stjärnspäckad grupp musiker (inklusive Chris Potter, Jim Beard, Christian McBride, Antonio Sanchez, Richard Bona och Dennis Chambers) och spelat in elva helt nya originalkompositioner. Mumma för alla gitarr- och jazzfans!