Results for "We Jazz Records"

You're Never Really Alone

By Jonah Parzen-Johnson

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: When I Feel Like Myself; There Is So Much I'm Afraid Of; Not Writing About This; Everyone Is Somewhere; The Courage Song; There Is So Much I Regret; What They Love; Named For You.

Jonah Parzen-Johnson: You're Never Really Alone

by Karl Ackermann
April 3, 2024

You're Never Really Alone is the seventh solo album from baritone saxophonist Jonah Parzen-Johnson. “Solo" is misleading as Parzen-Johnson's nuanced use of electronics has consistently added the kind of multiple dimensions that belie the work of a single player. This album, in contrast, is wholly acoustic but showcases Parzen-Johnson's remarkable ability to create enigmatic, deeply moving ...

Family

By Gard Nilssen

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Space Dance Experiment; Spending Time With Ludde; Letter to Alfred; Boogie Stop Tøffel; The Healing Force Of the Trojan Horse; Supersonic; Dolphin Disco; SP68.

Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: Family

by Mark Corroto
September 30, 2023

Why can't all music be supersonic? That does not mean supersonic as in a speed exceeding that of sound, but sound that is sonically superlative. Drummer, composer, and bandleader Gard Nilssen's music is seemingly always sonically superb. His 17-piece Supersonic Orchestra was captured in 2022 at the Mondriaan Jazz Festival in Den Haag, Netherlands, for Family, ...

Flow Festival 2023

by Rob Garratt
August 25, 2023

Flow Festival Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland August 11-13, 2023 The stark quantity and sheer quality of improvised and instrumental music on offer at Finland's Flow Festival only starts to make sense when you dig into its roots. Once loudly crowned by Vogue as “the Nordics countries' coolest festival"--a fact the event's ...

Music For Ukraine

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Sea Change; Sight and Science; Brother II; Song in Minor; Maedels; Myztong; Untitled; Better Together; For Robert Lockwood Jr.; Forest Hut; It’s Better If You Don’t; Live at Bubblan; Sista Sommardagen; About Bowman’s Sista Sommardagen; Kerzen; Low; A Rummed Chop; Untitled; Of Course My Incredulous Recoiling Was My Problem; Of Profession (Early Sketch); Equation; This Room; Serriterri; Unite Us All; Kerran Varhainen Pyhäaamu; Chin Go Gae.

Joulu Joulu Jul

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lahjattoman joulu; Gläns över sjö och strand; Jouluaamu; Natten före aftonen; När det lider mot jul/ Det strålar en stjärna; En etsi valtaa loistoa; Varpunen jouluaamuna; Jouluyö, juhlayö; Pieni rumpalipoika; Hymni: Nyt tahdon käydä vastaan.

Ilmiliekki Quartet

Label: We Jazz Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Three Questions; Sgr A*; Aila; Follow the Damn Breadcrumbs; Night Song; Kaleidoscopesque.

Emma Salokoski with Ilmiliekki: Joulu Joulu Jul

by Anthony Shaw
December 15, 2022

If you are looking for a novel way of approaching the December 2022 festive season, musically speaking, and are not deterred by a mixture of Nordic languages, then this album may appeal. The songs are sung in Swedish and Finnish, and without any accompanying lyric sheet an English speaker might do well to search for lyrics ...

April 2022

by Pat Youngspiel
April 13, 2022

Remboato Remboato Nagalu 2022 After pianist Koichi Sato's Embryo—praised in a recent Six Picks issue not only for its musical excellence but also for the elaborate packaging and presentation that Shinya Fukumori's Nagalu label offers— Remboato is the Japanese label's second outing of the year and features a remarkable acoustic ...