Donita Sparks found the song in the archive: they cut it with Janis Tanaka, who has returned on bass after Jennifer Finch’s death. Free download for the first week.
The singer who spent twenty years in Foreigner replaces John Corabi, who had two stints in the band. Jimi Crutchley comes in on bass and the album is being recorded.
Six songs and sixteen minutes of cello and voice, the second half of a diptych that started in March. Real minimalism: every instrument with its own space around it.
Piano and voice and nothing else: ten pieces and thirty-four minutes taped near Udine by an Italian pianist and an Israeli singer who until recently had never met.
Sixteen Danish and Norwegian musicians, six pieces of eight to twelve minutes and an hour and five of music written entirely by Maria Dybbroe. Taped at Oslo’s national jazz stage.
The Polish trio put the mazurka inside contemporary jazz: five “Mazurek” out of eight tracks and fifty-five minutes. Their fifth studio album, and their first for Dot Time.
Twelve tracks dedicated to his father, opening with his son’s voice saying he does not want to go to school. The Chicago drummer gathers Jeff Parker and Makaya McCraven and barely solos.
The New York guitarist returns with a trio, a banjo and two tracks whose titles are the same words in a different order. Eight pieces of jazz that is not asking you to come along.
The Bordeaux band leave technical death metal half behind and cross over into progressive rock across eight tracks and forty-three minutes. Their eighth album.
The expanded edition arrives on 11 November through Topshelf and is the first on vinyl. Joe Stevens shelved the song in 2024 and came back to it.
It is the heaviest track on “XIII: Sárga erdő”, out on 20 November through Season of Mist. Gábor Veres sings on it and Dario Cei plays flute.
Christos Antoniou fell the day before the tour with Arch Enemy and The Black Dahlia Murder began. There is no stand-in and no return date.
Bowie80 started on Monday and runs through 2027: exhibitions in Manchester, Brighton and Hamburg, and a symphonic piece with Philip Glass.
The digital deluxe edition came out on 2 October through InsideOut and adds the ten songs without vocals. The original album is from 12 June.
“Holding My Breath” comes out on Permuted Press, written with Dave Erickson. The first half is Bay Area thrash; the second, the cancer he got at 38.
Alexander Dreymon plays Rudolf Schenker and Dominic West plays Doc McGhee. So far there is only a German date: no international release is announced.
3 to 5 June at the Parc del Fòrum. Massive Attack make their festival debut after rain washed out their 2026 show, and tickets go on sale on the 9th.
Nine years after his first album, guitarist Jay Matharu returns with a guitar-and-tenor quartet recorded between Sweden and France, Indian music surfacing here and there.
Czech guitarist Kamila Csenge’s debut: seven tunes, a quartet with two electric guitars, and a mix that doesn’t always make clear which of the two is soloing.
The Icelandic bassist’s second meeting with Bill Frisell, eight years after “Strata”: ten pieces, thirty-seven minutes and a single dynamic register held from end to end.
Eighteen and a half minutes of “Plowman of the Sky” carry the album on which Rafael Pacha trades Celtic folk for fusion. He plays zither, viola da gamba, electric violin and whistles on it.
Twenty-eight and a half minutes of Atlanta shoegaze with the vocal pushed to the front of the mix and hip-hop drum machines underneath. Siichaq’s third album in three years.
Thirty-seven minutes shared two ways: four tracks from Ogives Big Band and a single seventeen-minute stoner epic from POHL, with a sax solo in the middle of it.
Eleven tracks of Birmingham glam with organ, flute and enough seventies references to fill three albums. Bobbie Dazzle’s second for Rise Above, two years almost to the day after the first.
The duo of Jordi Prats and Monique van der Kolk, formed after Harvest, is recording a six-song EP sung entirely in Dutch, still untitled.
It is the ninth of the ten tracks on “The Trouble With Love”, out on 23 October through Journeyman and produced by Kevin Shirley.
“Too” runs to nine songs and is sold from the band’s own site. It is out on FireRock Music Group and the advance track is “I’m A Mover”.
“Totally Twisted” is out on BMG and Rhino as a five-colour-vinyl box and a five-CD box. It runs from “Under The Blade” (1982) to “Love Is For Suckers” (1987).
It happened on 3 October at Merriweather Post Pavilion. The song is Audioslave’s and the pro-shot video has been released in full.
Autumn Tomb are Moore with Bryan Richie and Jimmy Vela III. Five tracks on Spaceflight Records, cut in Albany and Texas, and the “Crumbling Thrones” visualiser is already out.
Greenleaf Music has put the New Sanctuary Trio CD on general sale after years as a subscriber-only release. Twelve pieces named after the months of 2016.
Gong’s guitarist and singer put it out on 2 October through Believers Roast and Bad Omen. Thirty-three minutes, six tracks, and the bass always recorded last.
“Zebra V” is out on Flatiron Recordings with eleven songs, five of them produced by Jack Douglas. The New Orleans trio had not made a studio record since 2003.
The second night of the residency came with an entirely different setlist from the first. “The Outlaw Torn” had not been played since 2019 either.
A double album from the Orchestre National de Jazz on Carla Bley, the first programme of Sylvaine Hélary’s tenure. Eighty-five minutes, a third of which isn’t hers.
A piano and guitar duo with Bill Evans in the background: only three of the eleven tunes come from that repertoire and the rest are their own. Fifty-one minutes in a single register.
An organ trio recorded in a pub on the Devon coast: Starace on tenor, Jenkins on organ and Harbon on drums, stretching seven standards out to fifty-seven minutes.
Fourteen miniatures from Romanian Emil Gherasim’s electronics with Nils Petter Molvær’s trumpet on six of them. Forty minutes you’ll only find on Bandcamp.
The Brighton trumpeter’s quartet and Imogen Ryall’s voice work through twelve songs from “Porgy And Bess” with bop phrasing. The closing “Summertime” lasts one minute forty-four.
Eleven players from Brighton, four tracks and thirty-seven minutes of spiritual jazz with Sun Ra in the background. Their first album for a label, and the one that runs short of pieces.
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