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Release date July 18: Pianist, vocalist, and composer Dawn Clement has proven to be a joyful and formidable force in modern creative music through her work with Jane Ira Bloom, sje, Matt Wilson, Ron Miles, Julian Priester and many others over the last two decades. For "Delight," she forms a captivating, tri-generational unit with legendary bassist Buster Williams and the singular drummer Matt Wilson, and creates a soulful, endlessly dynamic recording of mostly original compositions. Torchbearers of the tradition while trailblazers in evocative & surprising sonic explorations, "Delight" describes not just their gathering, but also the resultant music created-inspired, original and resplendent. The revelation is Dawn Clement's piano, always ready with the lyricism or structure the moment needs. - DownBeat"In all this world of jazz, there are very few individual voices, no matter what the instrument, but Dawn has come up with a voice that's unique..." - Julian Priester

Release date July 11: Openness Trio is the debut album by a unique collective comprised of guitarist and producer Nate Mercereau, saxophonist Josh Johnson, and percussionist Carlos Niño. Free-thinking creators who bring a depth of experience from wide-ranging collaborations with the likes of Andre 3000, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kamasi Washington, Shabaka, Jeff Parker, Makaya McCraven, and many more, the trio presents a profound musical offering born of deep communication, immersive emoting, exploration, discovery, and trust. The album is five recordings from five different sessions all around Los Angeles and Ventura county - outdoors in the hills of Ojai with a view of the Topatopa Mountains, an intimate living room setting in Elysian Park, in an Oak Tree Cathedral at the Churchill Orchard in Ojai, a Garden of Electronics in the courtyard of an Echo Park home, and a recording session under a pepper tree at Elsewhere in Topanga Canyon.

Release date June 20: The seminal Matthew Shipp String Trio (Shipp: piano; Mat Maneri: viola; William Parker: bass) reconvened to commune with tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman, and Armageddon Flower is the epic result. This album is a peak gem in each of their extensive bodies of work, revealing new ways of exemplifying tradition, language, physics, material, and energy. A profound work presenting improvised communication at it's highest level.Since 1996 Perelman & Shipp have recorded 46 albums together in duo and small group settings. But as Shipp is careful to point out, "there's only one Matthew Shipp String Trio." At the turn of the century, this Trio struck out on a path to redefine "Third Stream" chamber jazz via two very well-received Hat Hut CDs. A quarter century later, this new work clearly builds on extensive, musically interwoven personal history. For Shipp, "William and Mat are as close to my natural soul brothers as you can get-and by soul I mean the soul. Ivo is another layer of that same soul."Perelman's copious studio dates - beginning with his self-titled Ivo (1989) - are a continual refinement and study in process whether or not they share personnel, and countless gems reside in his vast body of work. Armageddon Flower is a singular gem in the entire body of improvised music. +++This work is fundamentally a group music; while there are sections of duo and trio interaction, the onus is on a four-way conversation in which parallel streams become oceans of sound, only to be distilled into isolated rivulets once again. Without a drummer but with forward motion and bounce, the music on Armageddon Flower is sublimely striking and operates in a continuous flow of both impulsion and idea. As these four musicians have spent decades together in various capacities, their language is on one level honed. What's surprising is that entirely new pathways are exploding into view. It's unquestionable that this is music of necessity, of striving, and of possibility.