Natalia Mann is an ensemble and orchestral harpist – and a soloist of contemporary classical repertoire. Her performances also include Pacific music, Jazz, and music of Turkish inspiration. Pasif. ist is her debut on Rattle with her first recording under her name. An ex-pat Wellingtonian, she now...
Inspired by the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping and subsequent trial in the early 1930s, Rail 16 is a fascinating 49-minute work for mixed ensemble by jazz and new music composer, Dave Lisik. Skirting the worlds of jazz and new music, this exceptional piece features a line-up of top musicians,...
Jazz drummer Mark Lockett was inspired by the wonderful music of American alto saxophonist and ‘giant of jazz’, Ornette Coleman, particularly the music he created with Don Cherry, Charlie Hayden and Ed Blackwell and equally, New York heavyweight, Ari Hoenig. The fusion of these two influences led...
An album of contemporary percussion music composed by Scott Lindroth, Brian Nozny, John Psathas, Christopher Dean, David Skidmore and Christopher Adler, beautifully presented by Rattle Records.
Under the artistic direction of Conservatorium Staff member, David Theak, the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra commissioned Canadian composer Dr. David Lisik to write an extended composition for jazz orchestra, featuring US jazz luminaries Alex Sipiagin (trumpet) and Bob Sheppard (saxophone)....
This second Rattle Jazz release from Samsom Nacey Haines is a strikingly original work from one of New Zealand's finest jazz ensembles: Ron Samsom (drums), Dixon Nacey (guitar) and Kevin Haines (bass). The tracks on their previous album (Oxide, RAT-J-1004) were written by the individual members of...
Flaubert’s Dance continues the work started with the Phil Broadhurst Quartet’s 2011 album Delayed Reaction. Having compiled and presented the radio programme ‘The Art of Jazz’ for more than 20 years, Broadhurst has listened to a diverse range of records which have invariably influenced his playing...
Refractions is the first outing on Rattle Jazz from Wellington-‐based guitarist/composer, Nick Granville, here joined by the Auckland dream-‐team of Roger Manins (sax), Olivier Holland (bass) and Ron Samsom (drums). All of the tunes for this album were the result of Nick’s study of (and respect...
This exceptional piano trio recording marks the Rattle debut of Jonathan Crayford. The album was recorded by Mike Marciano at Systems Two in New York City, and features Ben Street on bass and Dan Weiss on drums, two of the most remarkable (and highly in demand) of the new generation of New York...
The Brad Dutz Quartet first performed at a New Music Festival at the REDCAT in 2005. The original impetus was to form an acoustic, jazz-tinged chamber ensemble capable of producing a wide range of textures and colours. Given the unusual combination of instruments within the ensemble, there are very...
yeahyeahabsolutelynoway! is an Adelaide-based jazz trio comprised of two guitars and drums. The group write and perform contemporary jazz that is firmly and affectionately rooted in 70's fusion. Their genre-bending style brings together elements from the jazz tradition with tinges of rock and...
Trumpeter Alexis French celebrates his debut with the stellar album The Cut. Recorded at McGill University's MMR and Studio A in Montreal, Canada, the album features rising stars of the Montreal jazz scene, David Bellemare (tenor sax), Nicolas Ferron (guitar), Nicolas Bedard (bass) and NZ ex-pat...
Recorded with some of New York's greatest jazz musicians, Dave Lisik's Machaut Man and a Superman Hat is contemporary jazz at its most assured. This masterful album is exceptional on every level, a strong, fully focused statement from one of Rattle's finest contemporary artists. “Machaut Man and a...
Hip Flask is an Australasian ensemble formed in the early 2000s by Kiwi saxophonist, Roger Manins. Their first album was recorded in 2001, but not released in New Zealand until 2005 (by Ode Records on the Manu Jazz label). The new recording, 2 (a title conceived with tongue firmly in cheek),...
It may seem an incongruous pairing on the face of it, but Michael Houstoun and Rodger Fox have something vital in common – a passion for music, and it shows. Their first recording together, Concerti is comprised of four substantial arrangements for jazz orchestra and concert piano, straddling two...
Dark and mystical, the nightmarish tales of famed horror author H. P. Lovecraft set the tone for Reuben Bradley's bold new album on Rattle Jazz. Cthulhu Rising employs a musical language that is markedly different to those demonstrated on Reuben's previous Rattle Jazz releases, the Tui...
Ron Samsom's first album as band leader is an affectionate, no-holds-barred, pumping homage to 70s jazz funk. Ace Tone bristles with energy and attitude, evident not only in the forward-leaning thrust of the performances and depth of generic understanding, rigour, and at times wit of the...
This new album from Phil Broadhurst is the third instalment in what he loosely describes as his ‘Dedication Trilogy’. Where Delayed Reaction celebrated the life and career of Michel Petrucciani, and Flaubert's Dance paid homage to a number of the artists who have influenced his writing and...
Creation features music selected by Keith Jarrett from his improvised solo concerts recorded in 2014 in Japan, Canada, and Europe. Where in the past the solo documentation has shown the improvisational process unfolding over the course of a single evening, this time Jarrett zeroes in on the most...
Fate and the Processor is an epic electroacoustic musical journey performed by New Zealand School of Music jazz instructor and multi-woodwind instrumentalist, Colin Hemmingsen. The movements, composed by NZSM jazz composition professor, Dave Lisik, make use of Colin's abilities on five different...
