Europe Jazz Media Chart July 2018

A selection of the hot new music surfacing across the continent this month by the top European jazz magazines and websites.
 
Cim Meyer, Jazz Special (Denmark):

Max Andrzejewski’s Hütte «And The Homegrown Organic Gospel Choir» (WhyPlayJazz)

album in iTunes | trailer on YouTube | album trailer on BandCamp | listen on SoundCloud | listen on Yandex Music | album on label's website

With the bonmots ”Cherish the butter! Praise the vegan hype! Worship the cracking of bones and all our society’s eating disorders!” this German release explore the unlikely combination of gospel and ”free” jazz. Even if you’re not in total sync with Dorrey Lin Lyles solo vocal on a couple of tunes the choir and the band are absolutely excellent. Joyful music and track 9 and 11, with the metaphors Full and Sugar, are breathtaking adventures.

 

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Lars Mossefinn, Dag & Tid (Norway):

John Coltrane «Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album» (Impulse)

album in iTunes | trailer on YouTube | album in GooglePlay | listen on Yandex Music | listen on Spotify (registration required)

 

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Axel Stinshoff, Jazz thing (Germany):

Max Clouth Clan «Kamaloka» (L+R Records)

album in iTunes | one track on YouTube | buy on Amazon | listen on Spotify (registration required) | listen on Deezer (registration required)

 

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Luca Vitali, Giornale della Musica (Italy):

Tania Giannouli / Rob Thorne / Steve Garden «Rewa» (Rattle Records)

album in iTunes | trailer on YouTube | album trailer on GooglePlay | buy digital on Amazon

 

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Madli-Liis Parts, Muusika (Estonia):

Tanel Ruben, Kirke Karja, Martin Kuusk «Polaaruni» (Tanel Ruben 2018)

listen on SoundCloud

 

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Mike Flynn , Jazzwise (U.K.):

Alina Bzhezhinska «Inspiration» (Ubuntu Music)

album in iTunes | trailer on YouTube | album on GooglePlay | buy on Amazon | listen on Yandex Music

 

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Anna Filipieva, Jazz.Ru (Russia):

Sergey Hutas «Time» (Hutas Music)

album in iTunes | one track on SoundCloud | listen on Yandex Music | listen on Spotify (registration required)

 

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Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts (Norway/Denmark):

Brötzmann / Aaltonen / Kowald / Vesala «Hot Lotta» (Svart Records)

trailer on YouTube | album on label's website

 

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Christine Stephan, JAZZTHETIK (Germany):

Kathrin Pechlof «Toward The Unknow » (Pirouet Records)

album in iTunes | trailer on YouTube | album on GooglePlay | buy digital on Amazon | album on label's website

 

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Henning Bolte, Jazzism (Netherlands):

Tania Giannouli / Rob Thorne / Steve Garden «Rewa» (Rattle Records)

album in iTunes | trailer on YouTube | album trailer on GooglePlayalbum on Amazon

“Rewa” is a genreless album but far from lost in the ocean. The music of “Rewa” goes beyond the known in terms of perception and imagination of time and space: murmur of sea animals, echoes of hidden forest glades, subterranean crackling, Erdgeister (Earth Spirits), secrets of an old olive tree… fables from the slumbering unconscious. It is fabrics of prepared piano, ancient Maori instruments and subtle electronics assembled/blended from improvising sessions in Athens: an antipodal collaboration of Greek jazz pianist Tania Giannouli, New Zealand musician Rob Thorne with Maori roots and New Zealand sound designer Steve Garden.

 

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Patrik Sandberg, Orkester Journalen (Sweden):

Marcus Miller «Laid Black» (Blue Note)

album in iTunes | album on Deezer (registration required)| album on GooglePlay | buy on Amazon | listen on Yandex Music | listen on Spotify (registration required) | listen on Tidal (registration required) | album on label's website

 

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