Eric Harland's Vipassana II (featuring Big Yuki, Ben Wendel, Gilad Hekselman and more) is an observation-based, self-exploratory journey, rooting the mind and body together in order to dissolve mental impurities and chaos. The desired result is to discover a balanced mind, full of love and compassion, for yourself and the rest of the world.

Music celebrating the healing power of the natural world.

You are in a Kitchen Filled with Plants as the Sun Streams Inwards is the debut record from Los Angeles-based experimental jazz collective You, Me, + the Whales Sextet. The group is co-led by brothers Zac Burgenbauch (guitar) and Devin Burgenbauch (bass), and features David Otis (saxophones), Elif Dinçer (harp/electronics), M A Harms (vibraphone/percussion), and Lucas Lenny (drumset). Bringing together American primitive guitar textures with spiritual jazz, open improvisations, field recordings, microtonal drones, and a lot of bells, the ensemble weaves through Alice Coltrane-esque delicacy and frenetic improvisation a la the Cecil Taylor Unit and Don Cherry. Otis sweetly floats amidst Lenny’s running beats and Devin’s rapidity, while Harms and Dinçer move with drips of sound around Zac’s yearning John Fahey-inspired folk melodies. The result transports listeners to a textured dream-scape of kinetic energy and beauty.

The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA is anything but a conventional big band. Under the direction of the two musical masters Caroline Thon and Christina Fuchs and with an expanded line-up including violin, vocals and electronics, the 22 award-winning musicians represent the current state of contemporary large jazz groups. In the bandleaders' compositions, powerful tutti passages and brass sounds à la Maria Schneider alternate with moments of silence, interrupted by collective improvisations by smaller subgroups of the orchestra. The result is an impressive musical experience that makes full use of the variety of timbres and possible combinations of instruments.

Sydney-based drummer Laurence Pike lands on Balmat with a solo fusion of jazz, post-rock and trip-hop that nestles between Burnt Friedman, Makaya McCraven and Barry Adamson.

An extraordinary outing brought the Verheyen-Thys-Pierre trio to the Ardennes for an entire evening. That night there was magic in the air. They immediately connected to the energy of this beautiful place surrounded by nature. They lead the way for you to explore and travel with them.

On their new duo album, Michael Wollny and Emile Parisien invite listeners into a conversation shaped by trust, intuition and complete artistic freedom. Recorded in concert as part of the Bodenseefestival 2025, the album captures two singular musical voices meeting in a space where nothing is controlled, nothing is predetermined, and every gesture becomes a response to the moment.

"MU" is a modern jazz album released on May 22, 2026, by the French jazz trio consisting of pianist Pierre-Alain Goualch, double bassist Diego Imbert, and drummer Franck Agulhon under the Trebim Music label.

Røed Quartet is a modern jazz ensemble playing original tunes rooted in the golden era of the 1960s. Led by Norwegian saxophonist Aksel Røed the band features Swedish drummer Cornelia Nilsson (Aaron Parks), the lyrical Lyder Røed (FIEH, Slow is the New Fast) on trumpet and flugelhorn, and steadfast Ola Høyer (Cortex, Moon Relay) on the double bass. The group delivers energetic and deeply musical interplay. The band was originally put together due to a commissioned work for the Tedansfestival in 2024, and later recorded this album, their debut.

The quartet maintains their usual roles, with their usual flexibilities too; Jusell on violin, Prymek on guitars, Sage on keys and percussion, Shiroishi on saxophones. It’s not unusual for members to veer far from their allotted lanes though; Jusell may suddenly erupt on vibraphone, or Sage may curl through a song on warbling clarinet, Shiroishi’s serene voice is more angelic and more prominently featured than ever, and Prymek’s ambient Americana touches lend the album a shimmering and pastoral delicacy.

I like the phrase “complete musician”…now not everybody wants to be, or needs to be a “complete musician.” Joe Fiedler is a trombone virtuoso, well seasoned arranger, composer, band leader, sideman, conceptualist…and most importantly a sonic innovator..I’d call that a complete musician.

Produced by Matthew Halsall, Gondwana Records is delighted to announce Horizons the debut album by Leeds-based saxophonist, composer and band-leader Jasmine Myra.

Saxophonist and composer Jasmine Myra presents nine beautiful and powerfully grounded compositions that express her ruminations on life, growth, and progression, powered by the artist’s vision of duality. “It’s those bittersweet moments which are heart-breaking but so important. Looking forward and trying to make sense of life,” she says. “Pain is unavoidable, and you’ll have hardship no matter what, but you don’t grow or learn about yourself or the world around you without it. The duality is the growth and coming out the other side. I had the concept from the start.”

First released in 1971 as part of BYG Records’ groundbreaking Actuel series, Jacques Coursil’s Black Suite remains one of the boldest expressions of the Black Diaspora’s creative and political awakening. Recorded in Paris on June 10, 1969, this visionary work now returns in a newly restored and remastered edition, revealing its full depth and clarity for the first time in decades.

Pojken Flensburg (piano) is a prominent musician on the Danish jazz scene and also has numerous CD releases and projects- and many as musical director. He is known for his beautiful sound and sensitive and intense playing.