Album Preview

The Trio Hear In Now has a new album on the horizon.  Not Living In Fear is getting released June 2, 2017 on International Anthem.

Here’s a preview of what’s to come…

Your album personnel:  Mazz Swift (violin, voice), Tomeka Reid (cello) and Silvia Bolognesi (double bass).

You can learn more about the album and pre-order it on the artist’s Bandcamp page.

Bassist Bryan Copeland and his ensemble Bryan & the Aardvarks have a new album on the horizon.  Sounds From The Deep Field is getting released April 29, 2017 on Biophilia Recordings.

Here’s a preview of what’s to come…

Your album personnel:  Bryan Copeland (bass), Fabian Almazan (piano), Chris Dingman (vibraphone), Dayna Stephens (EWI), Jesse Lewis (guitar), Camila Meza (vocals) and Joe Nero (drums).

You can learn more about the album and pre-order it on the label’s Bandcamp page.

And you should probably also check out their 2011 release Heroes of Make Believe.  It was one of the very best things to come out that year.  I wrote something about it (go read it).

Clarinetist Anat Cohen has two new albums coming out.  On April 28, 2017, Anzic Records will release Outra Coisa, a duo collaboration with guitarist Marcello Gonçalves, and also on that day, Rosa Dos Ventos with Trio Brasileiro.

Here’s a preview track from each of those albums, followed by an EPK…

Your album personnel:  Anat Cohen (clarinet) and Marcello Gonçalves (7-string guitar).

Your album personnel:  Douglas Lora (guitar), Dudu Maia (mandolin), Alexandre Lora (drums, percussion).

And here’s an EPK for Outra Coisa…

You can learn more about Outra Coisa, and pre-order it, on the Anzic Records Bandcamp page.

You can learn more about Rosa Dos Ventos, and pre-order it, on the Anzic Records Bandcamp page.

Flautist Nicole Mitchell and her Black Earth Ensemble have a new album on the horizon.  Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds is getting released May 5, 2017 on FPE Records.

Here’s a preview of what’s to come…

Your album personnel:  Nicole Mitchell (flute, electronics), Avery R Young (vocals), Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi), Renée Baker (violin), Tomeka Reid (cello, banjo), Alex Wing (electric guitar, oud), Tatsu Aoki (bass, shamisen, taiko) and Jovia Armstrong (percussion).

You can learn more about the album and pre-order it on the label’s Bandcamp page.

It’s also available at Amazon.

UPDATE:  I have included this album as one of my Best of Bandcamp Jazz recommendations for The Bandcamp Daily.