"Love And Rhythm is about my musical journey and my love for all types of rhythm and music. I've spent my life exploring the beauty of every genre of music there is.

If the name of this composer and keyboardist rings a bell, you’re on the right track; he will release his album under his own name “I Was Here” towards the end of this month.

"Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper" is the second studio album by the trio of Japanese noise musician Merzbow, Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi, and Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. It features guest musician Thurston Moore, guitarist in Sonic Youth. The album was chosen as number 20 of 20 Best Avant Albums of 2015 by Rolling Stone.

The re-release of Hans Koller's 1966 Relax With My Horns (MPS, Germany) shows a master at the top of his game. For the listeners, the disc is composed, arranged and produced with a sense of cheekiness… Trio of jazz musicians, with overdubbing of up to four saxophones on the session. The sum is a tidy little package of swing, blues and multi-tracked sax that echoes the iconic group Supersax.

Extraordinary musician Mose Allison leads the charge on this exhilarating live set that features bassist Clyde Flowers and drummer Eddie Charlton. The trio’s lush and magical performances are packed with fearless improvisations, blistering melodies and inspired playing. The album presents some of Allison’s most beloved compositions including “I Don’t Worry About A Thing”, “I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But The Blues”, “The Seventh Son”, “Fool’s Paradise”, and plenty more. The authentic crooner is simply dazzling.

Mose Allison’s explosive live set captured as a stunning hi-res recording combines his sublime vocal range with his immaculate piano playing. Heralded as one of the most influential voices in jazz music, Allison’s gritty New Orleans’ tone has resonated with fans for decades. The album features memorable performances of hits like “Parchman Farm”, “Fool’s Paradise”, “Baby, Please Don’t Go” and “The Chaser”.

Wisecrack is the sophomore album from Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Haley Blais. Conceived as a conceptual record about the formation of new families amidst the dissolution of her parents’ relationship, Wisecrack is textured and wryly poetic, oscillating somewhere between cherished childhood memories and the creation of a new self. The existential, everyday worries we all contain but rarely share are laid bare across eleven songs exquisitely performed with profundity, grace, and humour.

SUWI, with its strong live reputation, renowned for skillfully engaging and connecting with its audience, unveils its third studio album in mid-April.

Swedish jazz phenomon Nils Berg Cinemasocpe is back with their sixth album - The music on this album is based on field recordings of musicians, singers and sounds from the streets and countryside of Punjab, India - Nils Berg Cinemacope is a group of highly acclaimed Swedish jazz musicians that has toured all continents and collaborated with musicians and dancers in Italy, Cuba, Japan and more.

Andrew Appel, Artistic Director of the Four Nations Ensemble, performs throughout Europe and the United States as soloist in many festivals including Italy’s Spoleto Festival, New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Redwoods Festival. In 2023 Appel was invited to join the performers at Music from Marlboro. As recitalist, Mr. Appel has performed at Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls in New York, as well as halls from the Music Academy of the West to the Smithsonian in Washington DC.

"Fractured" contains six tracks that tell of different feelings and very personal experiences. They are about love, an almost missed opportunity or the feeling of sheer endless freedom. The pieces, which were all written by Jan Schrüllkamp, the band's guitarist, are refreshing due to their lightness and the interesting arrangement with vibraphone, saxophone, double bass and drums. Each track creates its own little cosmos.

SUNFACE from Oslo, Norway released their debut album Observatory in December 2016, which became monumental within the genre, and the title track was played several hundred thousand times all over the globe. Finally, after 8 years they are back and the journey continues in 2024, with the band's new album Cloud Castles - where tribe percussion and stoner/psych meet in a unique sound that has never before been heard. With a wall of speaker cabinets, fuzz, and a wide spectrum of djembe, congas, tabla etc, atmospheric melodies and heavy riffs float hand in hand in a new type of tribe ritual.

Brazilian singer and composer Arthur Melo turns to the ‘70s & ‘80s, to the musical greats like Caetano Veloso and Milton Nascimento, channelling his love of director Brian de Palma and old detective films, and positioning himself amongst a new generation of contemporary musicians.

"All I wanted to do was to get to Sacramento to play the topless bars," recalls tower of power founder and tenor saxophonist Emilio Castillo about his band's early days in the late '60s. Clearly, the funk horn ensemble has accomplished much more than that. A major influence on fusion and smooth jazz, the 10-piece band has recorded albums for Epic, Columbia, and Warner Bros. and continues to tour the summer jazz-festival circuit. Soul Vaccination: Tower of Power Live, features 15 of the band's most popular songs as recorded during a 1998 world tour. Half of the tunes were recorded at the Fillmore in San Francisco, where the band performed frequently back in the day.

Miyuji Kaneko was born in 1989 to a Japanese father and a Hungarian mother. At the age of six, he moved to Hungary alone to study under Zsuzsa Cs. Nagy at the Bartok Elementary School of Music. In 2001 at the age of eleven, he was accepted into the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, skipping grades and studying with professors Gabor Eckhardt, Gyongyi Kevehazi, and Rita Wagner. He has won first prizes in many international music competitions, including the 2008 Bartok International Piano Competition.