Courtney’s playing refreshingly cool new jazzy vibes for you to work, rest and play to! Jam-packed full of new releases and plenty of fun, including many of the artists introducing their own tracks! This wk Brazilian Frevo, fresh sounds from Ubuntu, classic Dizzy + Visions of Outrage from Planet B: right here and right now this week folks: musical antidotes for the uncertain times we're living in...

1. Yotam Silberstein - Brooklyn Frevo (Universos, YOTAM MUSIC) Originating in Northeast Brazil, and the State of Pernambuco in particular, the frevo rhythm – which Silberstein says he is addicted to, inspired the Brooklyn-based guitarist for this composition, which features Itai Kriss’ dancing flute and Valerio Filho on the pandeiro.

2. Dave Sears - Reservoir Retreat (I Always Thought My Thoughts Were Me UBUNTU) I Always Thought My Thoughts Were Me, trombonist and composer Dave Sear’s debut album, features original music as well as new arrangements of ‘In Your Own Sweet Way’ by Dave Brubeck and ‘Inner Urge’ by Joe Henderson. 

3. Jon Irabagon - Bebop (Rising Sun IRRABAGAST) Irabagon evolved his arrangement of Gillespie’s “Bebop” during a months-long period of solitary practice at Falling Rock, a breathtaking canyon in the South Dakota wilderness not far from in-laws in Rapid City. 

4. Alexia Bomtempo - Chameleon Lovers (Doce Carnaval ROPEADOPE) Born to an American mother and a concert-promoter Brazilian father, Bomtempo was raised in the beach culture of Rio de Janeiro, while traveling to America frequently over the years. She grew up listening to Brazilian popular music and Bossa Nova, as well as rock, folk and jazz.  

5. Jasper Hoiby/Planet B - Visions of Outrage (What It Means To Be Human EDITION) "Planet B is a reminder that united we can all share the power to control our collective destiny. Let’s suspend limiting concepts of what’s possible and create a new normality that works for us all. Come and join the ride".

6. Sean Gibbs Big Band - Gibb it Some More (Confluence UBUNTU) Confluence is trumpeter Sean Gibbs’ new release on Ubuntu Music and his biggest project to date. The title refers to different aspects of his musical and personal life that came together at the right time to make the album possible, as well as the joyous gathering of seventeen exceptional musicians.

7. Rebecca Vasmant - Procrastination (Dance Yourself Free TRU THOUGHTS)

“Dance Yourself Free”celebrates “That beautiful moment when every person in the club is united by the music”, Rebecca explains. “In that moment, we are all the same, we are all happy and we are all free. That’s the Dance Yourself Free moment”.

8. Judy Niemack - Right Here Right Now (What's Love SUNNYSIDE) Jazz vocalist Judy Niemack presents a collection of rhapsodic romantic songs on What’s Love, where listeners are given a glimpse into Judy Niemack’s resilient and inventive vocalese. 

9. Rabii and V.B Kuhl - Quazar (GNAWA ELECTRIC LAUNE II TRU THOUGHTS) the new album from the majestic duo of Moroccan Gnawa-master (maâlem) Rabii Harnoune and Frankfurt electronic producer V.B.Kühl - check the influence of dark bass music and the use of a vocoder seeping in...

10. Wolfert Brederode - March (Ruins and Remains ECM) WOLFERT BREDERODE’S RUINS AND REMAINS, A SUITE FOR PIANO, STRING QUARTET AND PERCUSSION, FEATURES THE MATANGI QUARTET AND JOOST LIIBAART.  ORIGINALLY COMPOSED BY BREDERODE TO MARK THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WORLD WAR I, THE SUITE HAS COME TO EMBODY MEANINGS BROADER AND MORE PERSONAL VIA ECM RECORDS

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