Bévort 3: A Cup of Joe (January 23rd, 2026)

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"Pernille Bévort displays all her customary rhythmic verve and melodic invention on a stirring homage to Joe Henderson that swings hard and simmers beautifully" Ian Patterson, All About Jazz.

The Danish saxophone trio Bévort 3 represents the essence of modern jazz, where tradition and innovation meet in a vibrant musical universe. The trio is led by Pernille Bévort, an award-winning saxophonist and composer with a colorful and original voice in jazz. The trio also includes the outstanding musicians Morten Ankarfeldt on bass and Espen Laub von Lillienskjold on drums. Together, they create a soundscape that exudes personality, dynamism, and creativity. Highly responsive, dynamic and interactive, the absence of a harmony instrument puts Bévort’s imaginative saxophone playing as well as the trio’s complex musical conversations in the spotlight. The intimate world of organic instrumental textures provides an aptly personal vessel through which the composer’s stories are told.

With the release of their new album, A Cup of Joe, the trio Bévort 3 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Joe Henderson, one of jazz's central figures. Here, Pernille Bévort draws inspiration from Henderson's universe and compositions, while the music clearly bears her own personal signature. The album will be released in January 2026 and promises a musical experience full of surprises, energy, and presence.

In connection with the release, two prominent jazz connoisseurs have already shared their brief thoughts on the album "This music is so well played that it gives surprises the whole way through. I listened to the entire repertoire nonstop and was with the flow all the way. Pernille has control over her art form. She knows where she is and where she is headed. That is how I hear Joe Henderson’s work. She has really made an album in which I can hear Joe, but through her own personal aesthetic. Make no mistake - this is a real band, a working unit. And this new recording highlights the unity they have” Bob Rockwell (formerly known from Thad Jones/Mel Lewis etc.)

Within the last five years Bévort 3 has released several critically acclaimed albums, including “On Fire” (2021), “Live 2020-2021” (2022) and “Northbound” (2024). These releases have received five-star reviews and several nominations at the Danish Music Awards Jazz. Pernille and her trio Bévort 3 were awarded a grant as 'Band of the Year' (Danish Music Awards Jazz dec. 2022). Sept. 4th, 2024, Pernille received an honorary award from the composer association 'Autor' for her creative compositional work in jazz over the years.

The group's music is characterized by a colorful and imaginative blend of Nordic sounds, bluesy grooves and lively communication, where the sound of the individual instruments and the musicians' expressions blend into a cohesive, dynamic whole. With music that embraces both tradition and innovation, and with a fascinating interplay, Bévort 3 stands as a very exciting jazz trio in the Nordic region.

Pernille Bévort: tenor saxophone/band leader and all compositions Morten Ankarfeldt: double bass Espen Laub von Lillienskjold: drums All tracks recorded by Thomas Vang at The Village Recording, Copenhagen April 29th 2025, except Ballad for Dreamers, recorded at Soundscape Studios by Louise Nipper May 2023. Mixed May and July 2025 by Louise Nipper and Pernille Bévort. Mastered Aug. 2025 by David Elberling. Graphic design by Niklas Antonson – Notation

This album was released with support from Danish Conductors Association, Koda’s Cultural Funds and Danish Arts Foundation.

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Grammy-winning pianist/composer Kris Davis confronts the existential crisis of climate change on a striking new piece for piano and string quartet.The Solastalgia Suite, out January 9, 2026 via Pyroclastic Records, joins Davis with Poland’s world-renowned Lutosławski Quartet

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“Davis’ music is precisely and unmistakably the sound of today.” — Downbeat Magazine

When Thomas Wolfe famously warned, “You can’t go home again,” the author saw nostalgia as a transformative sensation that placed our past out of reach. The global-scale damage that climate change has wrought in the decades since Wolfe wrote his novel has evoked a new, more profound emotion. The philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the term “solastalgia” to define, “a form of homesickness while we are still at home.”

Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer Kris Davis viscerally captures those feelings of yearning, dread and desperate hope on her breathtaking new work, The Solastalgia Suite. Her first piece for piano and string quartet, the album features Davis with Poland’s world-renowned Lutosławski Quartet. Alternately elegiac, bracing, defiant and warily optimistic, the eight-movement suite stirs the complex emotions described by Albrecht: “Our environment is transforming around us,” he writes, “and we grieve for the landscapes and ecologies we knew.”

Set for release on January 9, 2026 from Pyroclastic Records, The Solastalgia Suite further expands the broad scope and incisive exploration of Davis’ compositional vision. The music was commissioned by the Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, and premiered there and at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Named for the 20th century Polish composer Witold Lutosławski, the Lutosławski Quartet was founded in 2007 and has collaborated with jazz artists like Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn, Kenny Wheeler, Uri Caine and Benoît Delbecq; and with classical musicians including Garrick Ohlsson, Piotr Anderszewski, Kevin Kenner and Bruno Canino.

The music of The Solastalgia Suite grew directly out of the fears that Davis has harbored in light of the increasingly dire environmental crisis. “I see the changes when I go back home to Canada,” says the Vancouver native. “The environments are different, the climate's different – the whole connection with nature is different, from climate change and from our relationship to technology. I was looking for a word to describe this feeling of loss and mourning for my home and came across Glenn Albrecht’s term solastalgia, which described the feeling perfectly.”

There’s no sense of surrender in Davis’ music, which opens with the strident “Interlude,” a title that suggests that we enter the album in medias res – but not, with any luck, too late. From the seed of one mournful violin grows the moving, elegant web of “An Invitation to Disappear,” while “Towards No Earthly Pole,” with its scraping strings and percussive prepared piano, suggests an existence at the extreme fringe of survival. The bold string outbursts of “The Known End” frame a concerto-like showcase for Davis’ bristling piano; “Ghost Reefs,” haunted by the loss of bleached coral reefs, was directly inspired by the composer’s study with Henry Threadgill. The violent, erratic “Pressure & Yield” pictures the cracks and fissures of an Earth in upheaval, while “Life on Venus” floats eerily as through an alien environment. “Degrees of Separation” concludes the suite on an appropriately unsettled note of unpredictable and constant change.

Coming across Albrecht’s coinage gave a name to the overwhelming feelings that Davis had been contending with. She has since struck up a correspondence with the philosopher, and linked her work with fellow artists investigating similar concerns: the images and films of the French-Swiss conceptual artist Julian Charrière have provided vibrant and thought-provoking visual backdrops for performances of the suite, while the composition of the piece drew influence from Olivier Messiaen, in particular his “Quartet for the End of Time.” The French composer has been a guiding force for Davis, who sampled his voice on both releases by her venturesome ensemble Diatom Ribbons.

Photo of Davis and Lutoslawski Quartet by Wiktoria Smedra.

Kris Davis Kris Davis is a Grammy award-winning pianist and composer described by the New York Times as a beacon for “deciding where to hear jazz [in New York] on a given night.” Davis has released 26 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey and esperanza spalding. She was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez, Pianist of the Year by DownBeat magazine in 2025, 2022 and 2020, and Pianist and Composer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2021. In 2019, Davis’ Diatom Ribbons was named jazz album of the year by both the New York Times and the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development at the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, the founder of Pyroclastic Records and co-founder of the International Creators and Collaborators Workshop. Davis is a Steinway Artist.

Pyroclastic Records Pianist-composer Kris Davis founded Pyroclastic Records in 2016. By supporting artists in the dissemination of their work, Pyroclastic empowers emerging and established artists to continue challenging conventional genre-labeling within their fields. Pyroclastic also seeks to galvanize and grow a creative community, providing opportunities, supporting diversity and expanding the audience for noncommercial art. Its albums often feature artwork by prominent visual artists—Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Charriére, Dike Blair, Raymond Pettibon and Gabriel de la Mora among recent examples.

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Release date January 2nd, 2026. 33 Jazz Records (UK)

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The Jasna Jovićević Quinary presents Simply Joy, the ensemble’s new album on 33 Jazz Records, expanding its distinctive sound world of contemporary chamber jazz. The group unites the lyricism of a string quartet with woodwinds, voice, and percussion, creating an uncommon and resonant blend of textures that bridges contemporary jazz and modern chamber music.

Featuring guest vibraphonist Pasquale Mirra, Simply Joy explores vibrant instrumental dialogues, layered soundscapes, and subtle rhythmic interplay. The music moves fluidly between composition and improvisation, revealing clarity, balance, and emotional depth. Their innovative approach to 21st-century contemporary jazz and conscious music creates a collective expression that mirrors togetherness and compassion in these extraordinary times.

Continuing the trajectory set by Flow Vertical (FMR)and Sounding Solitude (Mascom/ The state51 Conspiracy Records) ), this album captures the Quinary’s signature blend of imagination, precision, and openness, reaffirming their role as a leading voice in new European jazz.

Members of the Quinary are musicians working in very different musical disciplines, yet deeply united in this ensemble for years now: Jasna Jovićević ( alto and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, voice), Filip Krumes (violin) Rastko Popović (viola) Pavle Popović (cello) David Sič (double bass)

All songs are composed and arranged by Jasna Jovicevic

Jasna Jovićević is a saxophonist, composer, and scientific researcher in transdisciplinary artistic studies, internationally recognized for her distinctive voice in contemporary jazz, free improvisation, and experimental music. She has released seven solo albums and collaborated with numerous artists across Europe, the USA, and South Africa, performing with own ensembles such as the JJ Quinary, ANJALI Trio, and Jovicevic/Miklos/Wojcinski Trio. Her work unites composition, improvisation, and sound exploration with mindfulness, yoga practice, and artistic research, creating a unique synthesis of music, philosophy, and creative consciousness.

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First Single "Drums Like Dancing" Available Now.

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Legendary Jazz Master Jane Ira Bloom Teams With Experimental Drum Virtuoso Brian Shankar Adler on New Album: once like a spark

Adhyâropa Records is thrilled to announce once like a spark, the new collaboration between legendary saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and forward-thinking drum sensation Brian Shankar Adler.

 once like a spark brings together NASA soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom and percussionist/composer Brian Shankar Adler for a series of acoustic duets that traverse the globe and showcase their unique improvisational magic. After years rehearsing and performing together they decided to go into Acadia Studios in Portland, ME in July 2025 to record their collaboration. The result is 14 tracks that document the spark of their extraordinary connection. Many of the tracks are first takes of pieces whose inspirations range from the gamelan of Southeast Asia (‘Shan Dara,’ ‘Together We’) and rhythms of North India (‘Psalm,’ ‘Song for Khan’), to literary icons Jorge Luis Borges (‘A Boa a Quq Aoaba’) and e.e. cummings (‘once like a spark’), to the galaxy & beyond (‘Old Orchard Intergalactic Launchpad,’ ‘Air’). The music is alive with rhythm, melodic soul, and turn-on-a-dime improvisation.

These duets are intimate acoustic snapshots of two master improvisers at play in celebration of music that explores the planet and beyond. Their sound is both warm and dynamic, and fired with rhythm. It’s almost hard to believe that there are only two musicians playing as each of the tunes unfold improvisations that tell a unique tale of sonic adventure. once like a spark ignites a special one-of-a-kind rapport between two seasoned improvisers at the height of their powers.

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ARIA Presents: ITS ALL YOUR FAULT Released 21st November 2025

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“A future classic, a young lady on the verge of a huge breakthrough.” – Simon Philips, Jazz FM Rising UK jazz / soul artist Aria will launch her brand new single 'It’s All Your Fault' at the EFG London Jazz Festival 2025 on Thursday 20th November at Soho’s Crazy Coqs

‘It’s All Your Fault’ was co-written with acclaimed artist and producer Sarah Gillespie and Ian Barter (Amy Winehouse, Paloma Faith), and co-produced by James Pearson (Van Morrison, Jeff Beck) and renowned vocalist Polly Gibbons. The track marks the next chapter for Aria as she builds towards her highly anticipated debut album, set for release in 2026.

Aria’s debut single ‘Rectify Your Soul’ (August 2024), received airplay on BBC Radio 6, BBC Introducing, and remained on the Jazz FM playlist for five consecutive weeks, including a week as ‘Track of the Week’. Jazz FM’s Simon Phillips described her as “a future classic, a young lady on the verge of a huge breakthrough.”

Since then, Aria has performed at some of London’s most prestigious venues, including Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, The 606 Club, and Crazy Coqs. She was also given a slot to play the Free Stage at Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2025, where UK Jazz News named her “an enticing talent” and “one to watch.”

In May 2025, she appeared at the launch of the non-profit organisation ‘She Writes Songs’ at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, performing alongside Sarah Gillespie, Rumer, Sarah Jane Morris, Polly Gibbons, Jo Harrop and Shaznay Lewis (All Saints). With her soulful voice and genre-blending songwriting, Aria is quickly emerging as one of the UK’s most exciting new artists.

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The new album by Danish/Swedish songwriter, singer and saxophonist Johanna Linnea Jakobsson Don't Over Think It. Release date is 31 October 2025.

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Johanna Linnea Jakobsson is a Danish-Swedish vocalist, saxophonist and songwriter. Born and raised in Copenhagen and currently residing in Southern Sweden, she first made a name for herself on the Scandinavian jazz scene with the release of the debut album “Alone Together” in 2022. With a mix of traditional jazz and the singer-songwriter-genre, the debut included both original compositions and new arrangements of well known classics by Duke Ellington, Lennon / McCartney and others, switching between vocals and saxophone as the lead instrument. “Alone Together” garnered praise from several jazz critics around Europe and was also named one of the best vocal albums of 2022 by the prestigious Japanese magazine Jazz Hihyo.

In 2023 she followed up with an EP featuring some of her personal favorites from the jazz standard repertoire. Furthermore she wrote and recorded the soundtrack for the Emmy Award winning series “One of The Boys” and released the songs as an EP in connection with the series premiere. The latter was made in collaboration with drummer and producer John Fernold (Sweden) who is also the producer of her sophomore album “Don’t Overthink It”.

On Don’t overthink it – set for release on 31 October – Johanna Linnea Jakobsson has taken a new course, diving further into the act of songwriting and focusing purely on original compositions. The songs are all centered around her distinctive vocals. Genrewise the lines between jazz, folk and pop are both blurred and kind of irrelevant. The songs are written from the perspective of suddenly finding yourself in adulthood, navigating both dreams, worries and the unknown. It may sound a bit dark, but it actually isn’t. The musical landscape lies somewhere in between influences such as Norah Jonas and Ella Fitzgerald with drips of Jeff Buckley and The Beatles.

Johanna explains:

“There’s a certain irony to the title considering almost every track on the album revolves around either feeling lost, indecisive or inadequate. “Don’t Overthink It” is what I wish I could tell myself whenever I get overwhelmed by worry and anxiety but for me that is certainly easier said than done. I’m trying to turn it into some sort of new mantra that I’ll bring with me from the process of writing the music.

I also really like that there’s a certain aloofness to the expression. The song lyrics are often very heartfelt and honest but at the same time I also just had so much fun making the music. In that way this album is everything at once to me. Sometimes the songs feel deep and vulnerable and at other times I look at them in another and way more simple light, where they’re just songs I love and that I made with my friends - and now I want to share them with everyone else who cares to listen.”

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