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Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2019

by John Kelman
July 5, 2019

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27 -July 1, 2019 Forty years. Not a lifetime, perhaps, but a remarkably long time for any festival to not only continue to exist but, despite increasing challenges, to thrive. An even greater achievement when it's the Festival International de ...

Article: Album Review

Avishai Cohen: Arvoles

by Roger Farbey
June 8, 2019

In the late 1990s, bassist Avishai Cohen was living and working in New York, having arrived a few years earlier from Israel. Out of the blue he received a phone call from Chick Corea which effectively changed his life. Not only did Corea offer Cohen a recording contract on the pianist's Stretch label, he also invited ...

Article: Album Review

Jason Palmer: Fair Weather

Read "Fair Weather" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
January 11, 2019

Newvelle Records co-founder, the pianist Elan Mehler is familiar with one of Boston's few long-time, dedicated jazz clubs, Wally's. As he explains in the liner notes for Fair Weather, the club is where trumpeter and North Carolina native Jason Palmer was leading a band for nearly two decades. Palmer has played with leading talents such as ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ornette@50, Bird vs. Hays & more

by Marc Cohn
October 19, 2018

We have a lot of ground to cover this week. After our starting half-hour of 21st century music, we have a compare/contrast of Charlie Parker versus a Kevin Hays deconstruction of “Scrapple from the Apple." The day of broadcast on WHYR was Art Tatum's birthday; so we have a rare recording of an airshot ...

Article: Album Review

Lionel Loueke: Close Your Eyes

Read "Close Your Eyes" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
August 1, 2018

Three short seasons and fifteen releases into Newvelle Records' vinyl subscription service, guitarist Lionel Loueke is the first artist to be featured a second time as a leader/co-leader. The Benin-born Loueke holds a Jazz Performance degree from Berklee and has played with many top artists including his mentor Herbie Hancock, George Garzone, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Haden ...

Article: Catching Up With

Gideon King: Street Jazz

by Paul Naser
July 11, 2018

New York based guitarist/composer/ songwriter Gideon King is no stranger to the city. Growing up there, he is well positioned to tell a story or two about the place. This is just what he sets out to do with his forthcoming release with his band City Blog, entitled Upscale Madhouse. Far from a condemnation, the title ...

Article: Album Review

Andy Zimmerman: Half Light

Read "Half Light" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
May 24, 2018

Saxophonist Andy Zimmerman is not a household name. The native Chicagoan has been composing, performing, and teaching music for more than two decades. In part, he comes to the subscription-based vinyl label Newvelle by virtue of a long association with the label's co-founder Elan Mehler, himself an accomplished jazz pianist. Mehler and Zimmerman played together at ...

Article: In Pictures

Steve Gadd Band At Lavanderia A Vapore In Collegno

by Carlo Mogavero
April 22, 2018

The performance by the Steve Gadd Band at Lavanderia a Vapore in Collegno (Turin), was one of the most remarkable concerts organized in Piedmont during these first three and a half months of 2018. The band included Steve Gadd, Kevin Hays, Jimmy Johnson, Michael Landau and Walt Fowler and the sold out show featured mostly original ...

Album

Hope

By Kevin Hays

Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Side A: Violeta; Hope; Aziza Dance; Feuilles-O. Side B: Milton; Twins; Veuve Mallienne; All I Have.

Album

Triangular Prism

By Jun Xiao

Label: Sony Music Entertainment China
Released: 2017
Track listing: Gravitational Field; I love Mathematics#1 intro; I Love Mathematics#1; Segment#1; When I Practice With A Bee; 616; Glowing Yellow And Blue Intro; Glowing Yellow And Blue; Inner Maze; Segment#2; I Love Mathematics#2.