While December is typically a slow time for new releases since most labels have released everything for the holiday season by this time, approximately 150 new entries were placed into the AAJ Upcoming Jazz Release Center today. Some labels are already announcing new releases due out as far as April, 2007, so it's definitely worth checking out the updated Center, as there are new releases due from artists including Onaje Allan Gumbs, Soft Mountain (a free improvising quartet featuring ex-Soft Machine members Hugh Hopper and the late Elton Dean), Enrico Rava, Adam Rogers, David Binney, Seamus Blake, Jane Monheit and Kurt Elling. There are also some exciting concert DVDs on the horizon by artists including Jaco Pastorius, Carlos Santana/Wayne Shorter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bill Evans and B.
B. King. The Upcoming Jazz Release Center is normally updated twice a month, though plans are in the work to have it updated more frequently and include even more entries than before in 2007.
So check out the today!
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