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Album

Close Your Eyes

Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Side A: Footprints; It Might As Well Be Spring; Moon River; Solar. Side B: Blue Monk; Body and Soul; Close Your Eyes; Naima.

Album

Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Side A: Sweet Earth; Instants; Vanishing Point; Ancient Affection; Came to Light; Side B: Cave of the Swimmers; Amedeo; Afternoon Variant; Segment; Her Room.

Album

Fair Weather

By Jason Palmer

Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Side A: Nameless; Fair Weather; Easy Living; Moonlight Becomes You; Side B: Miracles; You Know I Care; Nefertiti; Raise the Love Ceiling; Old Folks.

Album

Charlie & Paul

By Steve Cardenas

Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: (Side A) Kalypso; Tangram; Asia; La Pasionaria; In the Moment. (Side B) Prairie Avenue Cowboy; Riff Raff; Pocket Full of Cherry; For Turiya.

Album

Half Light

By Andy Zimmerman

Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Side A: Half Light; Clearing; Orr Springs Road; Montreux; The Bay Area; Two Sapphires. Side B: Crossing Iowa; Bess You Is My Woman Now; Lena’s Dance; Sunset and the Mockingbird; Golden Hours.

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Francisco Mela: Ancestros

Read "Ancestros" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
November 18, 2018

One of the many fine musicians coming out of Cuba, Francisco Mela is an accomplished drummer/percussionist and composer. On Ancestros, his debut on the vinyl-only subscription label Newvelle, he has contributed seven original compositions to a collection that includes covers from Andrew Hill and Paul Motian. The album name--and its title track--are appropriated from Mela's prior ...

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Skuli Sverrisson with Bill Frisell: Strata

Read "Strata" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
September 5, 2018

On their two previous third-season releases, Andy Zimmerman's Half Light and Lionel Loueke's Close Your Eyes (both 2018), Newvelle Records pushed the envelope just a bit away from the deeply melodic formula that they have favored across seventeen albums to date. While those vinyl releases incorporated more elements of improvisational complexity, they were hardly foraying into ...

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Skuli Sverrisson: Strata

Read "Strata" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner
September 5, 2018

A contemplative affair, Skuli Sverisson and Bill Frisell's Strata unfolds like a slow burning fire. The hovering notes and somber guitar lines evolve gradually, emerging like wind carved monuments visible through a hovering mist to reveal a stark, melancholic, and aridly beautiful landscape. The album demonstrates a fluid, masterful interaction between the two artists ...

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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 ...

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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 ...