The Chosen One

Vanisha Gould – She’s Not Shiny, She’s Not Smooth (Cellar Music)

We’re incredibly fortunate here at One Jazz to receive a lot of new music. Hopefully we do a good job of reflecting that on air. Interestingly enough though good new…

The Bad Plus – Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue)

The Bad Plus are quite a rare thing in jazz. They’re a band that sound and feel like a band, rather than a band in service of a leader. They…

Avishai Cohen – Brightlight (Naïve)

October sees the release of new albums from two prominent jazz playing Avishai Cohens. The trumpet playing Avishai releases the rather good Ashes to Gold on ECM while the bass-playing…

Simon Moullier – Elements Of Light (Candid)

Jet-lagged and wide-eyed on arrival at this January’s Winter Jazz Festival in New York I was grateful to get out of the sub-zero wind and in to any venue of…

The Chosen One – Kris Davis – Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)

Kris Davis is a force for great good in jazz music. A prolific player who The New York Time recently described as a beacon for “deciding where to hear…

The Chosen One – Bill Frisell / Kit Downes / Andrew Cyrille – Breaking the shell (Red Hook)

The lineup for this new release feels like something you dreamt about and then woke up to realise was real, or a game of fantasy jazz trios. Whoever had the…

The Chosen One – Jaubi – A Sound Heart (Riaz Records)

Pakistani instrumental band Jaubi return with their excellent second album. The trio of Ali Riaz Baqar (guitar and composer), Zohaib Hassan Khan (sarangi) and Kashif Ali Dhani (tablas and percussion)…

The Chosen One – Marquis Hill – Composers Collective: Beyond the Jukebox (Black Unlimited Music Group)

Award-winning trumpeter, composer and bandleader Marquis Hill, widely acclaimed for his soulful, eclectic modern jazz sensibility, is back with Composers Collective: Beyond the Jukebox, a new album celebrating the compositions…

The Chosen One – Patricia Brennan Septet – Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)

Yet another great vibraphone led album for 2024 – this time from visionary composer and player Patricia Brennan. In fact of the recent crop of superb vibes sessions this stands…

The Chosen One – Miguel Zenón – Golden City (Miel Music)

Grammy-winning alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón has never been one for churning out the studio albums for the sake of it. Each project seems considered, researched and meticulously delivered. Golden City…

The Chosen One – Warren Wolf – The History Of The Vibraphone (Cellar Music)

2024 feels like a vintage year for the vibes in jazz with strong new albums from Patricia Brennan and Simon Moulier and Joel Ross seemingly in the studio full-time given…

The Chosen One – Nicole Mitchell and Ballake Sissoko – Bamako-Chicago Sound System

Recorded in 2017 but released here for the first time this joyful album finds flutist, composer and AACM stalwart Nicole Mitchell going toe-to-toe with Malian kora master Balaké Sissoko. A…