To celebrate (or mourn?) the beginning of Fall, I present you with the bounty of new music now playing on the many channels of AccuJazz. In case you want to catch up, here's the last Now Playing post, from July. This edition features some really great music, including Miguel Zenon's 2nd post-genius-grant album, a fascinating piano duo album by Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays that straddles the worlds of jazz and classical, and my new favorite Brooklyn indie [jazz] band, The Four Bags. But those are just the beginning. Check 'em all out below!
Most all releases are playing on the main channel and new releases channel on AccuJazz.com; I've also listed the other AccuJazz channels on which you're most likely to hear each CD. Album titles are links to purchase on Amazon.
Roy Haynes - Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)Straight Ahead, Modern Mainstream, Drummers
Miguel Zenon - Alma Adentro (Marsalis Music)
Saxophone, Latin Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York
Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton - Play the Blues Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center (Warner Bros)
Guitar, Trumpet, Old School, Live Jazz, Nothin' But the Blues
Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays - Modern Music (Nonesuch)
Piano, New School, Third Stream
Kyle Eastwood - Songs From the Chateau (Mack Avenue)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Bassists, Fusion, Groove Jazz
Deep Blue Organ Trio - Wonderful! (Origin)
Straight Ahead, Guitar, New School, Modern Mainstream, Chicago, Organ, Pop Composers
Steve Coleman - The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings)New School, Cutting Edge, New York
Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day II (Songlines)
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, New York, Good Vibes, Drummers
Phil Woods and Bill Mays - Phil and Bill (Palmetto)
Saxophone, Modern Mainstream, Mellow
Giacomo Gates - The Revolution Will Be Jazz (Savant)Vocal Jazz
Claudio Roditi - Bons Amigos (Resonance)
Latin, Brazilian Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Trumpet
Tierney Sutton - American Road (BFM Jazz)
Vocal Jazz, Modern West Coast, Women of Jazz
Terri Lynne Carrington - The Mosaic Project (Concord Jazz)Vocal Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Drummers, Women of Jazz
Dominick Farinacci - Dawn of Goodbye (E1)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, Trumpet
Al Di Meola - Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody (Telarc)
Guitar, New School, World Fusion, Fusion
Warren Wolf - Warren Wolf (Mack Avenue)Straight Ahead, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, Good Vibes
The Four Bags - Forth (NCM East)
New School, Cutting Edge, New York
Wadada Leo Smith - Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform)
New School, Cutting Edge, Modern West Coast, Avant-Garde, Trumpet, Fusion
Starlicker - Double Demon (Delmark)New School, Cutting Edge, Chicago, Avant-Garde, Trumpet, Good Vibes
Tim Mayer - Resilience (Jazz Legacy Productions)
Straight Ahead, Saxophone, Modern Mainstream
Brad Shepik - Across the Way (Songlines)
Guitar, New School, Cutting Edge, New York
Gerald Clayton - Bond: the Paris Sessions (Emarcy)
Piano, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York
Orrin Evans - Freedom (Posi-Tone)
Straight Ahead, Piano, New School, Modern Mainstream
David Gibson - End of the Tunnel (Posi-Tone)
Straight Ahead, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York, Organ, Trombone, Groove Jazz
H2 Big Band - You're It! (Jazzed Media)Big Band, Trumpet
Art Hirahara - Noble Path (Posi-Tone)
Piano, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York
Jim Snidero - Interface (Savant)
Saxophone, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York
Amina Alaoui - Arco Iris (ECM)
Vocal Jazz, European Jazz, World Fusion, Women of Jazz
Dave Valentin - Pure Imagination (HighNote)
Latin Jazz, Modern Mainstream, Fusion
Charlie Apicella - The Business (CArlo Music)
Guitar, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Groove Jazz
Travis Sullivan - New Directions (Posi-Tone)Saxophone, New School, Modern Mainstream, New York
Marc Pompe - Everyone But Me (Self-Released)
Vocal Jazz, Chicago
Shawn Maxwell - Urban Vigilante (Chicago Sessions)
Saxophone, New School, Modern Mainstream, Chicago
David S. Ware, Cooper-Moore, William Parker and Muhammad Ali - Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)New School, Avant-Garde
Snehashish Mozumder - Jazz and North Indian Styles (Random Chance Records)
World Fusion, Fusion
Tim Collins - Castles and Hilltops (Self-Released)
New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Good Vibes
Chris Dingman - Waking Dreams (Self-Released)New School, Cutting Edge, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices, New York, Good Vibes
The Great Barrier Reefs - Finding Time (Self-Released)
Modern Mainstream, World Fusion, Fusion
Jeff McLaughlin - Blocks (Owl Studios)
Guitar, New School, Modern Mainstream, Emerging Voices
Garage a Trois - Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil (Royal Potato Family)
New School, Cutting Edge, Emerging Voices, Fusion, Groove Jazz
Meretrio - Meretrio (Self-Released)
Brazilian Jazz, New School, Modern Mainstream, Fusion
Richard Underhill - Kensington Suite (Self-Released)
Straight Ahead, Saxophone, Modern Mainstream
Skip Wilkins - After (Dreambox Media)
Piano, New School, Modern Mainstream
Katrina Wreede - Add Viola and Stir (Self-Released)
Modern West Coast, Third Stream, Women of Jazz
