2025

Tingvall Trio: Pax 2025 [Digipack / CD]

Gustafsson Rigmor: På svenska 2025 [Digipack / CD]

Johan Lindström Septett: Humankind 2025 [Digipack / CD]

Mitchell Joni: Joni's jazz 1968-2023 [Digibook / 4 CD]

Gitarrikonen John McLaughlin, känd för sin banbrytande fusion av jazz, världsmusik, rock och mer, släpper nu "Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2022". Detta album fångar hans triumferande återkomst till den prestigefyllda festivalen, där han har en 52-årig historia. Tillsammans med sitt band The 4th Dimension och gästen Jany McPherson bjuder McLaughlin på en mästarklass i fusion. Njut av klassiker som "New Blues Old Bruise" och "El Hombre Que Sabia", samt tolkningar av Pharoah Sanders "The Creator Has a Master Plan". Detta en djupdykning i magin, improvisationerna och virtuositeten hos den man som Jeff Beck kallade "världens bästa levande gitarrist".

After Martin Hederos gathered his dream band, Hederosgruppen has become one of Sweden's most hyped jazz acts, both live and on record. Yes, they are often placed in the jazz category, but they seem primarily focused on making fun music. Hederosgruppen made their debut with Storstrejk (2020) which was followed by Ståplats (2022), the only album thus far to win the Gyllene Skivan, Grammis and Manifest awards. Expectations for the third album may be high, but the group acts colly, calls their new creation Stilbrott (Breach of style) and puts three ski jumpers on the cover. As before, all five band members contribute ideas and compositions. The result could have been fragmented, but this quintet has created their style out of eclecticism. As before, they mix the riotous with the romantic in any number of styles. The common thread is the joy of being alive and playing live.

After an outpouring of seven acclaimed albums over a decade, accompanied by rapturously received touring all over Europe and North America, it's been nearly four years since the Hedvig Mollestad Trio released their triumphal seventh album, “Ding Dong. You're Dead”. Mollestad's pent-up delight in reconnecting with cofounders Ellen Brekken (bass) and Ivar Loe Bjornstad (drums) pervades “Bees in the Bonnet”'s thirty-seven adventurous, invigorating, beautifully baffling yet accessible minutes as they continue to blur boundaries between progressive rock and jazz and heavy psychedelia with their signature telepathic chemistry, nuanced sonority and uplifting spirit. Enjoy "Golden Griffin" while waiting for a fabulous album!