Sunnyside Records

19/07/2024

New Release: Bandleaders frequently have different ensembles that represent particular aspects of their musical personalities. Bassist/composer Matt Pavolka maintains a handful of groups, some focusing on his writing in more traditional jazz formats and others that provide more open, raucous fare. The Matt Pavolka Band represents the latter, their freewheeling style on full display on their new recording, Disciplinary Architecture. Ft. Ben Monder, Santiago Leibson & Allan Mednard!

An Aged Flamingo In A Dried-Up Pool - 12:35 And Then We Towed New Zealand Out to Sea - 6:52 Lighter-Complected Invaders From the North - 7:07 Ricin Beans - 9:47 Nuts and Bulbs (for Drenka) - 5:46 Defeating the Porpoise - 6:27 The Word for Moonlight Is Moonlight - 7:53 Disciplinary Architecture - 9:1...

12/07/2024

New Release: Things of beauty can come from the release of one’s traumas. Harry Skoler experienced the loss of a friend as a teenager, a passing that deeply impacted the clarinetist/composer and left an indelible mark on his person. On his new recording, Red Brick Hill, Skoler revisits the past and delivers the story instrumentally with an incredible array of musicians in an effort to cleanse his soul, keep his friend’s legacy alive, and to, hopefully, help others with such burdens through the gift of music. Ft. Joel Ross, Dezron Douglas, Johnathan Blake, Christian Sands, Marquis Hill & Grégoire Maret! https://buff.ly/3Y5Uktb

05/07/2024

New Release: On Where We Begin, On Where We Begin, Alex Kautz's debut recording as a bandleader, the drummer has assembled a band that includes saxophonist John Ellis, pianist Helio Alves, bassist Joe Martin, and his frequent collaborator Chico Pinheiro on guitar. Vocalist Magos Herrera—with whom Kautz has worked extensively—serves as co-producer and contributes vocals on two tracks. Together, the ensemble explores the musical common ground between New York’s jazz and Brazilian musical communities. “Sometimes it goes more jazz and sometimes more Brazilian,” he says of the record. “Without changing anyone’s sound, we found a way to play within the different influences of different cultures.” He attributes this to each of these veteran musicians’ “openness” and adds, “Within the jazz language, everything can come together.” https://buff.ly/3XQ06Pc

17/06/2024

New Release: The past few decades have seen legendary pianist and composer Denny Zeitlin focus on a few vehicles for his adventurous journeys in music making. Playing solo, with his trio, or in the acoustic-electronic duo with George Marsh have provided ample avenues for exploration, which Zeitlin hopes to provide a wide scope of on his new, varied collection, Panoply. Ft. Zeitlin’s trio w/ Buster Williams and Matt Wilson. https://buff.ly/3KNqUbh

07/06/2024

New Release: The jazz canon is full of outstanding material for musicians to use as vehicles for improvisation. The music of Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Jobim and his peers has been especially ripe for interpretation since the 1960s. Chromatic harmonica specialist Yvonnick Prené looked to the Brazilian jazz school for inspiration for his new duo recording with piano virtuoso Geoff Keezer, entitled Jobim’s World.

Triste - 4:52 Proezas De Solon - 3:29 Dans Mon Île - 5:09 Vagues à Lames - 4:11 The Girl from Ipanema - 2:59 Too Many Notes - 5:27 Tide - 3:37 Desafinado - 3:56 Double Rainbow - 4:07

05/06/2024

https://somethingelsereviews.com/2024/06/03/jamie-baum-septet-what-times-are-these-2024/

The Jamie Baum Septet + has achieved something very hard on 'What Times Are These,' speaking from the soul of both composer and listener.

05/06/2024

https://www.popmatters.com/jamie-baum-what-times-are-these

Jamie Baum merges powerful poetry, sophisticated arrangement and composition, and a range of historical influences not restricted to one tradition or tonality.

24/05/2024

New Release Out Today (5/24):Tony Moreno Trio - Ballads Volume 1 featuring Gary Versace & François Moutin.
There is something timeless in the performance of a jazz ballad. By nature, they are very open to unique interpretation. Drummer Tony Moreno inherited an appreciation for ballads from his mother, a professional harpist, which eventually led to Moreno regularly performing them with his Trio. After twenty years of leading the group, Moreno has compiled some of his mother’s favorites to record with the trio on their debut album, Ballads Volume 1.

24/05/2024

New Release: There is something timeless in the performance of a jazz ballad. By nature, they are very open to unique interpretation. Drummer Tony Moreno inherited an appreciation for ballads from his mother, a professional harpist, which eventually led to Moreno regularly performing them with his Trio. After twenty years of leading the group, Moreno has compiled some of his mother’s favorites to record with the trio on their debut album, Ballads Volume 1. Ft. Gary Versace & François Moutin! https://buff.ly/4bRtU1A

17/05/2024

New Release: The relationship between Alex Harding and Lucian Ban has been long and fruitful. Their combination of elements of improvisational music have helped the pair develop a unique musical language that transcends the expectations of the jazz genre. Their new recording, Blutopia, highlights their attuned rapport while allowing their music to unfold with their own singular ensemble, propelled by the tuba stylings of the great Bob Stewart. Ft. Mat Maneri & Brandon Lewis.

17/05/2024

New release today 5/17/24 of BLUTOPIA an album by Alex Harding & Lucian Ban, with Mat Maneri, Brandon Lewis and special guest appearance by Bob Stewart.
Catch Harding and Ban on Tour!

5/23 @ City of Asylum - Pittsburgh, PA
5/24 @ Barbès - Brooklyn, NY
5/25 @ Puffin Cultural Forum - Teaneck, NJ
5/27 @ Bar LunÀtico - Brooklyn, NY
5/29 @ Jazz Gallery, NYC

04/05/2024

Catch Mike McGinnis +9 celebrate their new release, Outing, at DROM NYC on May 7th! https://buff.ly/4dqOs2U

03/05/2024

Catch Jamie Baum's Septet+ celebrate their new release, What Times Are These, at DROM NYC on May 7! https://buff.ly/3Uttac2

03/05/2024

New Release: In contemporary music, the divide between composition and improvisation has become blurry over the generations. Twentieth and twenty-first century composers have stretched the boundaries of melodic and harmonic structure, leading to pieces that challenge listeners and performers alike. Hoping to work along these lines, pianist and composer Jake Hart immersed himself in the worlds of jazz and contemporary music. For his debut recording, Collage, Hart has woven together musical ideas from contemporary classical music into a through-composed piece that sounds like an improvised piece of music. Out today (5/3).

26/04/2024

New Release: Pianist and composer, Andy Milne is thrilled to present Time Will Tell, a new album recorded with his trio Unison dropping April 26, 2024, on Sunnyside Records. Milne’s latest collaboration with bassist John Hébert and drummer Clarence Penn is a sparkling exploration of identity and destiny, showcasing Milne’s ever-evolving craft. As with its predecessor, Time Will Tell is Milne’s artistic response to life-changing circumstances. Time Will Tell chronicles his lifelong efforts to uncover his birth family history. Adopted as an infant, his efforts to connect with his birth family proved fruitless – until 2018, when the gift of an Ancestry.com DNA test from his wife, singer La Tanya Hall, changed everything. Ft. Ingrid Laubrock & Yoko Reikano Kimura. Available to purchase/stream today (4/26). Links in the comments.

25/04/2024

https://dromnyc.com/event/vinicius-cantuaria-record-release/

TODAY at 7:30pm
DON'T MISS IT😃

Join us for this record release concert featuring Vinicius Cantuaria at DROM on April 25th!

24/04/2024

https://downbeat.com/news/detail/luciana-souza-trio-corrente-bring-cometa-to-vivid-life

Luciana Souza is the most justly renowned Brazilian jazz singer working in the United States. Trio Corrente is Brazil’s most accomplished small jazz group. The long-hoped-for collaboration of the two produced a delightful and…

19/04/2024

New Release: So much in the creative arts is determined by the choices of collaborators, environment, and performance goals. Guitarist, composer, and conceptualist Brandon Ross regularly creates situations with other musicians and artists to push their collective creativity to new destinations. The Phantom Station ensemble is a vehicle that Ross returns to with soundesign artist, Hardedge, to embark upon adventurous, uncharted musical journeys. Ft. Graham Haynes, David Virelles & JT Lewis. Out today (4/19).

19/04/2024

New Release: So much in the creative arts is determined by the choices of collaborators, environment, and performance goals. Guitarist, composer, and conceptualist Brandon Ross regularly creates situations with other musicians and artists to push their collective creativity to new destinations. The Phantom Station ensemble is a vehicle that Ross returns to with soundesign artist, Hardedge, to embark upon adventurous, uncharted musical journeys. Ft. Graham Haynes, David Virelles & JT Lewis. Out today (4/19). Links to purchase/stream below.

05/04/2024

On What Times Are These (Sunnyside), Jamie Baum’s fifth recording with The Jamie Baum Septet+, her flagship ensemble, the acclaimed New York-based flutist-composer presents her first exploration of spoken word and art song. To be specific, seven of Baum’s ten compositions respond to works by a cohort of eminent 20th and 21st century female poets (Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Tracy K. Smith, Lucille Clifton, and Naomi Shihab Nye), interpreted by renowned guest vocalists Theo Bleckmann, Sara Serpa, Aubrey Johnson and KOKAYI. Available to purchase/stream today (4/5)!

Get 20% off purchase on Bandcamp with code bcapr2024

01/04/2024

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/the-jamie-baum-septet-release-what-times-are-these-on-sunnyside-records

Jazz news: The Jamie Baum Septet+ Release 'What Times Are These' on Sunnyside Records. Posted in “Recording” column. Published: April 1, 2024 @ All About Jazz

22/03/2024

New Release: There seems to be a patented Brazilian musical sound, whether it be the cool strains of bossa nova or the rhythmic pull of samba. Vinicius Cantuaria is a master of Brazilian music in its many forms, but on his new recording, Psychedelic Rio, he decided to turn the music on its head. Recruiting the Italian duo of Paolo Andriolo and Roberto Rossi to form a power trio, Cantuaria and the music demand to be played loud! Out today (3/22)! Links to stream/purchase in the comments.

11/03/2024

AVAILABLE NOW ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS
Judy Niemack
Night and the Music
SSC4995

Musicians

Judy Niemack - vocals
Kenny Werner - piano
Ray Drummond - bass
Billy Hart - drums
Jean-Francois Prins - guitar
Eric Friedlander - cello

"Ordinarily, I’d hate to go so far as to say an album is worth getting based on one song alone. However, Judy Niemack’s rendering of Jacques Brel’s “La Chanson Des Vieux Amants” is just that... Niemack performs like the songbird she is throughout. Her voice evokes a blend of innocence and worldliness...” -Deni Krasel / Jazztimes
http://www.sunnysiderecords.com/site/release_detail?id=1194

11/03/2024

AVAILABLE NOW ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS
Judy Niemack, Mal Waldron
Mingus, Monk & Mal
SSC4994

Musicians

Judy Niemack - vocals
Kenny Werner - piano

1995
Recorded in France, a tribute to three great jazz composers by Niemack and Waldron including three of Waldron’s originals, “Soul Eyes”, “A Time for Duke” and “The Seagulls of Kristiansund”.

"Judy Niemack digs deeply into the innards
of the compositional body eclectic andmakes no detectable missteps. She crosses her Rubicon with the grace and confidence of those who know just where the shallows are and, therefore, appear to walk on water. Her voice remains a vehicle of startling clarity with all the range and rubato she might need for either a s**t or improvisatory horn mode, as well as the filligreed touch of texture with which she breathes into life an intelligent lyric."
- Alan Bargebuhr / Cadence
http://www.sunnysiderecords.com/site/release_detail?id=1188

11/03/2024

AVAILABLE NOW ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS
Judy Niemack
Long As You're Living
SSC4992

Musicians

Judy Niemack - vocals
Fred Hersch - piano
Scott Colley - bass
Billy Hart - drums
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone

"Judy has an inner sweetness to her voice....and a jazz edge. The combination is effective. She's musically sophisticated. She befriends the pulse and interacts with jazz musicians well. She draws from feelings and experiences, using melodies by jazz composers- some of them quite challenging- as her basis for creativity..." Burt Korall, International Musician"She puts over a tune with passion and singular phrasing. She slaloms with streamlined precision through tricky be-bop lines and changes. She twists, turns, s**ts, leaps and bounds with Olympian grace...displaying admirable control, balance and understatement...Classy."
-Gene Kalbacher / Hot House
http://www.sunnysiderecords.com/site/release_detail?id=1186

11/03/2024

AVAILABLE NOW ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS
Judy Niemack
Blue Bop
SSC4991

Musicians

Judy Niemack - vocals
Cedar Walton - piano
Ray Drummond - bass
Joey Barron - drums
Curtis Fuller - trombone

Album · 1989
Judy’s first recording after moving to NYC in 1977.
“Seldom are we rewarded with a singer whose emotional warmth matches her technical fire, whose eloquence is as galvanizing as her grasp of melody and rhythm...Niemack delivers on all counts because she digs in where most merely dabble.”
-Stuart Trou / New York Newsday
http://www.sunnysiderecords.com/site/release_detail?id=1185

11/03/2024

AVAILABLE NOW ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS
Straight Up
SSC4993
Musicians

Judy Niemack - vocals
Scott Colley - bass
Kenny Werner - piano
Adam Nussbaum - drums
T***s Thielemans - harmonica
Mark Feldman - violin
Cafe - percussion
Theo Bleckmann - vocals
Peter Eldridge - vocals
Jean-Francois Prins - guitar

1992
“A musician’s musician...Her creative odyssey provides a fascinating illustration of the high road to mastery that transcends the limitation so genre...Not only does she sing but she write lyrics...Her ability to
stretch the air vocally is about evenly matched with an astonishingly easy way with the painted word.”
K. Leander Williams, DownBeat Magazine
http://www.sunnysiderecords.com/site/release_detail?id=1187

08/03/2024

New Release: Frank Carlberg has explored the music of Thelonious Sphere Monk in many contexts: as a seasoned and highly acclaimed pianist, noted for his work in duo, trio and other small groups, but also as leader and orchestrator of an adventurous large ensemble. His 2017 release Monk Dreams, Hallucinations and Nightmares was big-band Monk in all its glory, rated five stars in DownBeat and hailed as “stunning and original” by The Buffalo News. Carlberg played piano on the earlier date, which had J.C. Sanford conducting. But on the new Elegy for Thelonious, Carlberg takes up the baton and does not play, leaving that to the brilliant Leo Genovese (of Esperanza Spalding renown, effortlessly at home in mainstream and avant-garde jazz settings). Available to purchase/stream today (3/8)!

16/02/2024

New Release: On his new recording, Outing – Road Trip II, Mike McGinnis and his 10-piece jazz ensemble pay tribute once again to the legendary clarinetist and composer Bill Smith whose commissioned piece “Transformations” is debuted and featured along with McGinnis’s dynamic recent works. Available to purchase/stream today (2/16)! Links in the comments.

28/07/2023

New Release: In seeing others with the mercy of a poetic lens, we may get outside of ourselves, and be opened up to new pathways of understanding of and empathy for one another. In this light, good and bad stand side by side, living within everything and everyone, rendering us all complex, beautiful, and endlessly fascinating.These are the themes explored in singer/songwriter Sami Stevens’s anticipated debut solo album, Morning. On the album, Stevens treats the vastness of the human condition with painterly impressions and an empathetic disposition. Inspired by the musical world of the 60s and 70s, Stevens’s writing draws upon folk, soul, jazz, and singer/songwriter traditions with refined spaciousness and a measured pace. Available to purchase/stream today (7/28)!
https://buff.ly/3OwmV5C