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Album Previews- April 2026
SydeBoob Duo: Au Naturel FCR481
Brooklyn based SydeBoob Duo (soprano Anna Elder and flutist Sarah Steranka) is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of contemporary performance in repertoire for soprano and flute, bringing their virtuosity to ambitious works that highlight their commitment to broad representation alongside the highest aesthetic standards. On this debut full length release Au Naturel, they perform works by Rebecca Saunders, Eric Moe, Anthony Braxton, Ramin Akhavijou, Max Johnson, and Beat Furrer that are both landmark works for the instrumentation and core works that have shaped SydeBoob as an ensemble.
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/sydeboob-duo-au-naturel/
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/au-naturel
Michael Jones: The Promise of Escape FCR486
Michael Jones releases The Promise of Escape on 4/17, featuring three works that resulted from close collaborations he has had with composers Pluto Bell, Nicholas Deyoe, and Scott Wollschleger. These works are part of a growing portion of the solo percussion repertoire that celebrates sensitivity, timbre, and painting of expressive worlds not as a counter to traditional virtuosity, but an expansion of it.
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/michael-jones-the-promise-of-escape/
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-promise-of-escape
a·pe·ri·od·ic: aus der nacht FCR491
a·pe·ri·od·ic is a Chicago-based experimental music ensemble founded in 2010 and directed by Nomi Epstein featuring post-Cagean notated, experimental music. Their third release on New Focus features an album length work by Magnus Granburg written for the ensemble, Aus der Nacht, von den Wehen, a forty five minute episodic work comprised of 71 distinct sections that explore subtle changes in attack, decay, resonance, and pitch, using an indeterminate notation to inject variability into its performance.
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/aperiodic-aus-der-nacht/
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/aus-der-nacht
Noah Meites: Counting FCR475
Los Angeles based composer Noah Meites releases COUNTING, a collection of his chamber music that chronicles his vibrant artistic voice and his role as an active member of that city's fertile contemporary music community. Featuring performances by Brightwork New Music, HOCKET, violist Linnea Powell, pianist richi valitutto, New Thread Quartet, and Meites' own ensemble LA Signal Lab, COUNTING is a vital snapshot of a prolific artist in one of the United States' most vital new music scenes.
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/noah-meites-counting/
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/counting
The Voices of Dave Brubeck - Volume 2
Navona Records
"Hot on the heels of its first installment, Navona Records presents THE VOICE OF BRUBECK VOL. 2, continuing its celebration of Dave Brubeck’s genre-crossing legacy. Produced by Arthur Gottschalk with Chris Brubeck and Paul English, the album spans orchestral and jazz-rooted works—from the world premiere recording of Theme and Explorations for Orchestra to beloved Brubeck standards—honoring Brubeck’s innovation, lyricism, and social conscience.
To learn more please visit -
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6800/?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=cadence&utm_campaign=brubeck+vol+two+cadence"
Trio CBD - Painless Airwaves
WP 073 Painless Airwaves
by Trio CBD
Rémi Charmasson - electric guitar
Michael Baird - drumset, percussion
Philippe Deschepper - electric guitar
The history of this album:
In November 24 Michael Baird moved to the south of France. He had played several concerts with the André Jaume/Rémi Charmasson Quintet over forty years ago and the friendship with Rémi had continued. Upon hearing that Philippe Deschepper lived in Marseille - and that Rémi and Philippe were also good friends - Michael created Trio CBD in February '25. The vibe between the three musicians was immediately so good that Michael took the step to record an album at Studio La Buissonne on March 31st
& April 1st. All three musicians were very pleased with the results, as was sound engineer Gérard de Haro. However, Rémi had been experiencing back pains since a couple of weeks beforehand - and he died of cancer of the liver 4 weeks and 3 days after the studio date. These are his final recordings, his last notes. 1961-2025 RIP.
Trio CBD never got to perform in front of an audience.
Michael Baird - No Dogmas Allowed;
SWP Records is proud to announce the cd and digital release of
SWP 072 ' No Dogmas Allowed;
by Michael Baird & friends
Michael Moore - alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Jon Birdsong - cornet, cornetto
Hans Hasebos - vibraphone, percussion, soprano sax
Henk Raven - tuba, euphonium, tenor sax
Michael Baird - drumset, percussion
Recorded in Amsterdam in September 2024 in Mikel Le Roy's new studio. Michael B invited some
longtime musical friends all living in Holland - and Jon who lives closeby in Belgium - to record some
ideas on space, rhythm, and timbre during two consecutive days in an open studio setting with natural
acoustics. No headphones, no monitors, no chase-up, just breathing together.
When asked a little later what 'genre' the recorded music was, Michael answered: "Modern music." When
then asked what he meant by that, he replied: "No dogmas allowed..."
Todd Mosby - Palomino
Hold on for a blazing samba ride through open plains of rhythmic verve and unguarded emotion on "Palomino"
Perfect for upbeat playlists and fans of Jazz, CI and Samba
The first single off Todd Mosby's upcoming album is “Palomino,” a wild yet captivating piece that blends high emotion and refined musicianship into a track that lingers long after the first listen. Mosby, an indie composer & multi-Instrumentalist, tapped producer Jeffrey Weber and a select group of top jazz, rock, and instrumental artists to gather at The Village Studios last August to record his new album, American Heartland. The stars aligned to get these music giants together in person! As a result, the warm vibe resonates throughout the album, which is inspired by the rich music history and land of Mosby's home state, Missouri.
Whether you’re a longtime fan or discovering Todd Mosby for the first time, “Palomino” is the perfect introduction to the forthcoming album, a 100% human-created, cinematic soundscapethat shares Mosby's vision in 12 emotionally-resonant tracks with a healthy dose of variety. The title track, “American Heartland,” is a contemporary jazz piece steeped in the rustic warmth of Missouri.
Wilfrido Terrazas: Wilfrido Terrazas: Trilogía del Dolor
Flutist and composer Wilfrido Terrazas presents Trilogía del Dolor (Trilogy of Pain), a collection of works blending music and poetry to explore the complexities of the human experience of pain. Going beyond common idealizations, the trilogy seeks to spark conversations and challenge taboos around pain, featuring poignant texts by Mexican authors Nuria Manzur–Wirth, Ricardo Cázares, Tania Favela, Mónica Morales Rocha, Nadia Mondragón, and the composer, in conversation with the unique visual imagination of artist Esther Gámez Rubio. The album features the vocal artistry of soprano Mariana Flores Bucio and tenor Miguel Zazueta, and the fiery talents of clarinetist Madison Greenstone, cellist rocío sánchez, percussionist Camilo Zamudio, and Terrazas on flutes and narration.
Portland Percussion Group: Patterns & Form
Portland Percussion Group’s newest release features three works that the ensemble brought into being: Alejandro Viñao’s title work, Mendel Lee’s The Spaces Between, and Daniel Webbon’s Whatever was lost never thenceforth mattered. The collection demonstrates the ensembles’ versatility, from metrically intricate, virtuosic interlocking lines, to spacious, delicate textures, to cathartic, vigorous drumming. But it also highlights the wonderful diversity in percussion ensemble repertoire being written today. What was once a landscape of a few high profile pioneering groups has blossomed into one of the most prolific sub-communities in concert music, stretching and challenging the creative frames of composers, performers, and listeners alike. The Portland Percussion Group reinforces their role in this fertile scene with this release, performed with verve and interpretive understanding.
Multi-instrumentalist Paul McCandless has been thrilling audiences for decades. He first became a member of saxophonist and world music pioneer Paul Winter's innovative New Age band “The Winter Consort” in the late 1960s. This was followed in the early 1970s by the groundbreaking chamber jazz quartet “Oregon,” and in the early 1980s he was a member of the big band “Jaco Pastorius Word of Mouth.” After his debut as a bandleader with All the Mornings Bring (1979) on the Elektra label, McCandless teamed up with pianist Art Lande and vibraphonist Dave Samuels in 1981 for the impressive album Skylight (ECM). In the same year, he released his second solo album, Navigator, on the Landslide label. This was followed by two spectacular band projects at Windham Hill: “Hearsay” (1988) and “Premonition” (1992), the latter produced by bassist Steve Rodby and featuring Lyle Mays on piano, Fred Simon on keyboards, and Mark Walker on drums. With the same outstanding lineup, he gave nine concerts in the summer of 1992, beginning with a performance on July 4 at the Montreal Jazz Festival, followed by three evenings (August 21 to 23) at Kimball's East in the Bay Area. A DAT cassette of this performance was stored in McCandless' private archive for decades before being discovered a year ago. Co-producer Jon Krosnick, whose San Francisco-based band Charged Particles toured extensively with Paul McCandless from 2015 to 2019, said: “One day I was at Paul's house sorting through material for his website. When he climbed a ladder to get into a small storage room in the garage, he found a poorly labeled tape. I took it home, played it, and immediately thought, ‘We have to release this.’”
A transatlantic meeting shaped by Scandinavian jazz
The collaboration between Malene Mortensen and Christian Sands dates back to 2014, when they first met through Copenhagen’s legendary Jazzhus Montmartre. Ten years later, they reunite on MALENE & CHRISTIAN, recorded in Copenhagen with Sands serving as pianist, arranger, and producer.
While Sands has since become an internationally acclaimed composer and bandleader, shaped by close collaborations with artists such as Christian McBride, Mortensen has long been a defining voice on the Danish jazz scene. Her career bridges jazz, soul, and songwriting and includes collaborations with Alex Riel, NHØP, and Mike Stern. On MALENE & CHRISTIAN, the two artists meet as equal creative partners, blending original compositions with fresh interpretations of standards through an open, collaborative process.
The album centres on personal breakups and broader life crises, drawing on experiences both artists carried into the sessions. Recorded with a Scandinavian core ensemble and expanded by international guest musicians including Benny Benack III, Mathias Heise, and Gabor Bolla, the result is an intimate yet expansive jazz album marked by warmth, lyricism, and emotional clarity.
Sands highlights the distinctive Scandinavian jazz tradition, particularly the “big, warm sound” of Danish bassists, praising Thomas Ovesen’s grounding presence and harmonic imagination.
Swedish drummer Rasmus Kihlberg, known for his melodic sensibility and collaborations with Viktoria Tolstoy and Sylvia Vrethammar, brings both structure and lyricism to the music.
Wow Records is proud to announce the release of Serenity – Laura J Marras plays Joe
Henderson, the debut album as a leader by saxophonist Laura J Marras, available on CD and in digital download/streaming formats from January 16, 2026.
LAURA J MARRAS - ALTO & SOPRANO SAX
FRANCESCA CORRIAS - VOICE, FLUTE, LYRICS
ALESSANDRO DI LIBERTO - PIANO, ARRANGEMENTS
GABRIELE LODDO - ELECTRIC BASS
ALESSIO COGOTTI - DRUMS & PERCUSSIONS
“Serenity” is not just a title: it is the subtle thread running through every note.
A creative space where different musical sensibilities meet,
a color that emerges in the sound,
a shared breath that shapes the melodies
and allows the music the time it needs to reveal itself”
https://www.laurajmarras.it/
New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born guitarist, composer, and visual artist Gabriel Vicéns releases his fifth studio album, Niebla, a boundary-defying work that merges the vibrant rhythms of Afro-Puerto Rican folklore with the harmonic richness of modern jazz and the fearless spirit of avant-garde experimentation.
Niebla (which translates to “fog”) is a sonic journey through the cultural and emotional depths of identity, tradition, and innovation. Rooted in the rhythms of bomba and plena, the album pulses with ancestral energy while venturing into new territory through complex jazz harmonies, spontaneous improvisation, and experimental textures. The result is a sound world at once grounded and exploratory, reverent and radical.
“This album is a conversation across time,” says Vicéns. “It’s my way of honoring the rhythms of Puerto Rico while opening them to contemporary expression and sonic experimentation, a space where ancestral memory, diasporic identity, and creative freedom intersect.”
High-quality 4-panel digipak with a smooth matte finish, accompanied by a 24-page booklet featuring stunning photography by Adrien H. Tillmann and insightful liner notes by acclaimed music journalist and author Bill Milkowski.
Includes digital pre-order of Niebla. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
https://gabrielvicens.bandcamp.com/album/niebla
Composer and pianist Richard Carrick's recent work fuses his penchant for long form composition, fluency in extended techniques, versatile performance practice, and interest in structured improvisation. This newest album-length work, l’Algérie is the second part of a trilogy of large-scale works inspired in part by the music of the Maghreb region of North Africa, drawing on Carrick's own family background and a fresh approach to the region's diverse musical heritage.
Composer and pianist Richard Carrick conjures an evocative travelogue for an imagined journey through Algeria on his compelling new album-length work, l’Algérie. The second part of a trilogy of large-scale works inspired in part by the music of the Maghreb region of North Africa, l’Algérie is the most introspective and autobiographical piece of the project, drawing on the composer’s own family heritage and deeply personal exploration of the area’s richly varied musical traditions.
L’Algérie is scored for extended piano, oud, violin, cello and percussion, and performed by the acclaimed experimental chamber ensemble Either/Or: Carrick on piano, Bahar Badieitabar on oud, Jennifer Choi on violin, Justin Jay Hines on percussion and John Popham on cello. The concert-length composition is atypical in the contemporary and avant-garde chamber music world, where shorter, self-contained pieces are the norm — evidencing, as does much of his genre-blurring music, the influence of jazz, world music, and other forms on Carrick’s wide-ranging worldview.
Rodrigo Correia “Promessa” is the title track of Rodrigo Correia’s debut album. Initially composed on the guitar (like most of his tunes), it was then arranged for a rock-solid Lisbon-based quintet, featuring some of the most prominent musicians on the scene: alto saxophonist Ricardo Toscano, pianist João Paulo Esteves da Silva, guitarist André Fernandes and drummer João Lencastre. At once song-like and improvisatory, the piece echoes both Portuguese and contemporary NYC jazz, resulting in an unusual (and yet accessible) blend: a catchy tune that develops into a freer saxophone and piano dialogue, followed by a masterful guitar solo. In a way, “Promessa” can be seen as an extremely concise synthesis of Correia’s musical universe as it currently stands.
Videoclip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjxwr30-XB0&list=RDPjxwr30-XB0&start_radio=1
https://rodrigocorreia.bandcamp.com/album/promessa
Dave Douglas Four Freedoms On Four Freedoms, acclaimed trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas convenes a remarkable new quartet featuring Marta Warelis (piano), Nick Dunston (bass) and Joey Baron (drums). Releasing January 30th, 2026, on Greenleaf Music. With over 60 albums as a leader, Dave Douglas continues to expand the language of creative music. Here, he channels President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - into a compelling new musical project. The ensemble is an analogy for a functioning society, with four distinct voices coexisting, conversing, and creating through improvisation. “I wrote this music for my dear friends Marta, Nick, and Joey. The compositions are personalized to them, how they play, and how they approach freedom in improvisation. We open up these tunes in new and unimagined ways on every gig.” – Dave Douglas
https://davedouglas.bandcamp.com/album/four-freedoms
Paul Richards Crossing Brooklyn Ferry All of the chamber works presented on this recording are connected through an engagement with cyclic patterns in time, engaging our senses of memory and expectation, generating fresh contexts for the presentation of similar materials. The eponymous work which lays at the heart of this album, a setting of Walt Whitman’s Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, ponders an ethical decision-making process considering of persons yet to be born. Our actions impact those around us now, but they also impact the future, potentially the far-distant future, and current technological developments may well mean that we are at a critical juncture in human history that can have profound implications for the living conditions, or even existence, of countless future persons. Whitman describes his experiences on the Brooklyn ferry and imagines future people having similar experiences to his own, and through this process he recognizes the common humanity, and value, in the people he is currently surrounded by, and in those who will someday “cross from shore to shore.” The poem moves seamlessly through various tenses and temporal orientations, reflecting its themes through a structure that is self-referential and repetitive in intriguing ways. Richards was inspired by both the structure and content of the poem, aiming to refract these ideas through a musical prism in an exploration of cycles of time and harmony.
https://paulrichardscomposer.bandcamp.com/album/crossing-brooklyn-ferry
Klaus Wienerroither - Trumpet Tales In an orchestra, the trumpet, at least until the beginning of the 20th century, is mainly used to play some kind of fanfare, announcing glory, war or victory. It is safe to say that only in jazz has this instrument has shown its full sonic and emotional potential. The muted trumpet of Miles Davis has nothing to do with triumph. But of course, jazz trumpet players can just as well use the techniques and styles of classically trained musicians. First trumpet and drummer always take the lead in a decent jazz orchestra. The second jazz concert I saw when I was a kid was a quintet led by the legendary Woody Shaw. This experience made a very deep impression on me. So, trumpet sounds played a big part in my jazz education from the very beginning. I chose the guitar as my main instrument. When I got into straight ahead jazz, I always wanted to take the part of the tenor sax (same range and notation as the guitar) within a jazz quintet. Naturally, my first jazz album was a quintet with trumpet, guitar and a piano trio. From the very start I also wrote tunes dedicated to trumpet players. Three compositions were especially written for the collaboration with the Barbara Bruckmüller Big Band. Barbara arranged two tunes for her band, sax player Tobias Hoffmann did three arrangements, and I arranged four. I am very happy with the result and want to thank the musicians and engineers involved, making this dream project of mine possible.
https://quintonrecords.com
Benjamin Cousins What We Dream It To Be Jazz clarinetist/composer Benjamin Cousins' debut album, What We Dream it to Be (WWDITB), is a forward-looking, reflective debut showcasing the New Orleans musician's skills as a musician and composer. With a growing career as a performer, Cousins displays his storytelling skills with WWDITB, an album of original works. Reconnecting with the optimistic sensibilities of childhood, the creatively conceptualized album explores the impact of honoring our dreams and realizing their full potential. Together with his band, The Sonic Architects - guitarist Matt Sewell, percussionist Brian Richburg Jr., pianist Wilfie Williams, bass player Dan Winshall, and guest vocalist Robbie Pate, Cousins presents fresh works that navigate the emotional terrain of emerging adulthood — from internal conflict to moral crossroads —proving that home is what we dream it to be.
https://www.benjamincousins.com
Lunch Break Tom Weasley Lunch Break thrives on morphing textures and surprising hybridizations … Ballou dances frenetically over Teasley’s inventive percussion...packs a strong punch and underscore Teasley’s and his collaborators’ musical fearlessness.” Alexa Peters - Downbeat “Ballou’s trumpet skirts and dashes around Teasley’s crafty rhythm beds with the deftness of a dancer prowling the stage.” - All About Jazz - Geno Thackara
https://tomteasleymusic.bandcamp.com
Antonio Adolfo Carnaval Carnaval (Carnival) is also an old tradition in Brazil, where the festivities are very popular and become more “spectacular” each year. Despite the evolution of this jubilee, the songs created for the event have lost their beauty each passing year, or even disappeared. The “golden age” of Carnaval songs corresponds to the period between the beginning of the last century, mainly between the 1920s and 1950s, with its beautiful songs, many of which were exposed through musical competitions, where the most beautiful songs were chosen. As such, some of them have become great classics of Brazilian music.
https://antonioadolfomusic.com/new-album/
Irving Flores Armando Mi Conga Irving Flores’ newest work, Armando Mi Conga, is a celebration of Afro-Cuban jazz recorded live in New York with some of the world’s most celebrated musicians. The album features Giovanni Hidalgo (congas), Brian Lynch (trumpet), Horacio “El Negro” Hernández (drums), John Benitez (upright & electric bass), and Norbert Stachel (tenor/baritone sax, clarinet, flute). Together with Irving’s compositions, the result is a powerful, vibrant, and soulful addition to the global jazz landscape.
https://irvingflores.com
Louis Rosen American Sunset "American Sunset" is a personal response to the political chaos that America finds itself in, a work very much from, about and for this moment in time, and a work that, judging from the initial response, seems to be striking a significant chord with people. Streaming Links https://music.apple.com/us/album/american-sunset/1846186165 https://music.amazon.in/albums/B0FW5DSV79 https://open.spotify.com/album/3cuVXUQcNIBG3GTWawBGpk?si=LuCKMwa3Q-S5Zer25KFvQA https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=louis+rosen+american+sunset
Bruce Gertz
Octopus Dreams
https://www.brucegertz.com
Yunmi Kang & John Stowell A Timeless Place Recorded in Seoul, A Timeless Place brings together Korean vocalist Yunmi Kang and American guitarist John Stowell in an intimate duo setting. Through seven reimagined jazz standards and Norma Winstone’s “A Timeless Place,” the album explores sound as conversation — open, spacious, and deeply human. As Cadence Magazine (USA) wrote, “Yunmi and John’s performance takes us into an entirely different realm of expression—bending time, breaking away from it, painting sound in color and texture. With his unconventional chord voicings and rhythmic freedom, John shapes the flow, while Yunmi colors each note with stunning phrasing and sensitivity.” Kang, known for her clear tone and instinctive phrasing, moves freely between melody and silence, while Stowell’s harmonic colors and rhythmic awareness create a landscape that feels both grounded and free. Their collaboration is quiet yet full of energy, expressing the essence of jazz as listening, trust, and presence in the moment. Available on all major digital platforms.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4OFMQmRimIcdxLINnr7KcA?si=-KdMo73NTZu92CTD0g_KBg
ALISTER SPENCE TRIO Gather ‘This is a great pianist at the peak of his powers – an amazing album that richly repays repeated listening.’ Andy Hamilton, Jazz Journal It’s been seven years since our last Alister Spence Trio release Not Everything but Enough. There is something very special about the connection and interplay Lloyd, Toby, and I enjoy as a trio. This has built up gradually over our almost-thirty-year history of performing together. We are delighted with this album and hope you enjoy Gather! Alister Spence - piano, samples Lloyd Swanton - double bass Toby Hall - drums, glockenspiel
https://alisterspence.bandcamp.com/album/gather