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Late Summer/Fall 2025: NEW MUSIC FROM RED CAT PUBLICITY
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Conrad Herwig: Reflections-Facing South, featuring Eddie Palmieri and Luques Curtis
Release date: August 29, 2025, on Savant
Herwig, one of the most adventurous voices in Latin jazz, is back with a terrific new Savant release, Reflections-Facing South. This time, he’s teamed up again with the legendary Eddie Palmieri, a true icon of the genre, and bassist Luques Curtis, forming a trio that breaks all the rules. What sets this album apart, besides featuring the legendary Eddie Palmieri? There’s no drummer. In a musical style as rhythm-centric as Latin jazz, going drum-less is almost unheard of – but that’s precisely what makes this project so exciting. Curtis keeps the pulse moving forward with his rock-solid, melodic bass playing, while Palmieri fires up all his usual excitement and rhythmic complexity, using the piano like a percussion instrument. Herwig, of course, soars over it all with his high-flying, bold and fluid trombone sound. Herwig and Palmieri go way back, having played together on several of Palmieri’s Grammy-winning records.
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Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra: Multiversal – Live at Bop Stop
Release date: August 22, 2025 on Hidden Cinema Records
The prolific saxophonist/composer/arranger/conductor Stephen Philip Harvey leads various ensembles with a seemingly insatiable drive to explore a vast array of avenues in improvisation and composition, including his wonderful 17-piece Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra, first heard on the album Smash, and now on an explosive performance at Cleveland’s iconic venue, Multiversal: Live at Bop Stop. Recorded live in one take at, the eighth release from Stephen Philip Harvey at the sophomore album from the SPH Jazz Orchestra, this CD/LP continues Harvey’s genre-bending journey through comic book-inspired soundscapes. On Multiversal: Live at Bop Stop you will be treated to epic, super-powered music scored for heroes, villains and everyone in between!
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Timo Vollbrecht – Bremen New York
Release date: September 5, 2025 on Berthold Records
Saxophonist Timo Vollbrecht has managed to assemble his international dream-band under the most fitting title imaginable. With Ralph Alessi on trumpet, leading New York-bassist Chris Tordini, Thomas Strønen - another ECM artist - on drums, and Elias Stemeseder on piano. To accomplish this small miracle, the bandleader drew not only on his exceptional musical talent but also on his longstanding connections to both Bremen and his adopted home, New York.
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Michael Ragonese – Chasing Calm
Release date: October 10, 2025
Los Angeles born and raised (by a musician mother, a singer, guitarist and composer), jazz pianist and composer Michael Ragonese has become one of the most in-demand voices of his generation, performing, touring, and recording with icons such as Barbra Streisand, Walter Smith III, Ben Wendel, Mark Turner, Dayna Stephens, Charnett Moffett, Bennie Maupin, Dave Binney, Engelbert Humperdinck and many others. Combined with two acclaimed albums as a leader, and more than 25 years immersed in music, Ragonese has established a distinct sound forged from three sources, jazz, classical, and his Italian heritage. Now with this captivating new recording, Chasing Calm (recorded in January 2025), Ragonese hits it out of the park again, with a set of seven lovely, compelling original compositions, and a trio take on the standard, “Alone Together,” which they miraculously modernize and reinvent, despite the tune having been recorded by the likes of Artie Shaw, Miles Davis, Tony Bennett, Dizzy Gillespie and numerous other luminaries.
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JC Sanford’s EQ - Denki
Release date: October 10, 2025 on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
Trombonist/composer JC Sanford and his band, EQ (short for Electric Quartet) offer up a creative tour-de-force with Sanford’s eighth album as a leader, Denki, Japanese for “electricity”, and also a tribute to his mentor, Bob Brookmeyer, who released an album of the same name in ’94 (with the WDR Big Band).
JC Sanford is an artist who is hard to pin down, as his life in music takes on many shapes and forms. He has worked with stalwarts such as Danilo Perez, Matt Wilson, John McNeil, George Schuller and many others. He is also a sideman in many of NYC’s most revered ensembles (including Andrew Rathbun Large Ensemble, Nathan Parker Smith’s prog-rock big band, Andrew Green’s film noir tribute, Narrow Margin, singer-songwriter Joy Askew’s New York Brass, and Joseph C. Phillips, Jr.’s jazz/new music hybrid, Numinous), handling it all with aplomb.
It would take a musician of such breadth and depth to create the music you hear on his latest and greatest, Denki, a pastiche which can conjure up in the listener’s mind, almost simultaneously, his mentor Bob Brookmeyer, other trombone legends such as Curtis Fuller or Slide Hampton, Stevie Wonder and Black Sabbath! This is an artist who embraces inspiration when it hits, and if that means plugging in and shaking the foundation of stages and studios in the process, so be it. If that also means wearing your heart on your sleeve, so be it.
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Anne Mette Iversen Ternion Q Expanded – Marbles
Release date: October 17, 2025 on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
Ternion Q Expanded, the vibrant seven-piece ensemble led by visionary bassist and composer Anne Mette Iversen, announces the release of its new album, Marbles — a dynamic exploration of layered form, rhythmic interplay, and creative exchange in contemporary jazz.
Rooted in the metaphor of marble runs, Marbles evokes the beauty of systems in motion — paths diverging and converging, elements interacting, music finding its way in real time. “The best marble runs offer multiple ways to reach the same goal,” says Iversen. “This music celebrates exactly that: variety, motion, and the openness of process.”
Marbles features bassist Anne Mette Iversen with Silke Eberhard – alto aaxophone, Julius Gawlik – clarinet, alto clarinet & tenor saxophone, Percy Pursglove – trumpet & flugelhorn, Geoffroy De Masure – trombone, Morris Kliphuis – French horn & Roland Schneider – drums
