Catch up on the latest news at Emarcy.
Chão
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| January 30th, 2012 |
After 12 years of musical partnership with pianist/composer Mario Laginha, Maria João now focuses on her new solo album. This musical voyage from the other side of the Atlantic includes songs that have mostly, been subject to many versions and interpretations. In light of this João herself admits it’s "a risky challenge" to try and breathe new life into such familiar material.
Live & Let Live-Love For Japan
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| January 16th, 2012 |
Charity album release from worldwide jazz musicians to support victims of Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake. Features artists Makoto Ozone, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Branford Marsalis, and more. Recorded in 2011 in Tokyo and New York. The sales of the album are donated for Japanese recovery through the Japanese Red Cross Society.
Come Sunday
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| January 10th, 2012 |
Charlie Haden picked these songs because they were the songs that he grew up with and sang with his parents and siblings, in the Midwest, just like Hank Jones, the son of a church elder from Mississippi, heard in Pontiac, Michigan.
From Gainsbourg To Lulu
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| December 12th, 2011 |
Lucien Gainsbourg, alias Lulu Gainsbourg, was born on January 5, 1986. Son of Serge Gainsbourg, a major French artist, and Bambou (model and singer), brother of Charlotte Gainsbourg (famous actress and singer), Lulu became famous very quickly.
Gong-Oh
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| November 7th, 2011 |
One of the most idiosyncratic, charismatic, and internationally successful Italian singer/songwriters of the past four decades, Paolo Conte returns with his latest 19-song masterpiece.
Hollywood
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| November 7th, 2011 |
The glamorous vocal harmony trio return with their most opulently swinging set yet as they put on all the glam and glitz of Hollywood's illustrious musical history.
At The Crossroads
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| October 10th, 2011 |
One of jazz's most acclaimed, distinctive improvisers, virtuoso saxophonist James Carter returns to a favored format and simpatico colleagues with At the Crossroads, his 15th CD as a leader and the third showcasing his long-standing Organ Trio.
Silver Secret
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| October 10th, 2011 |
After her debut's declaration of minimalist intent (We Need to Repeat - Ronin Rhythm Records), Estonian-born Ingrid Lukas returns with Silver Secrets, an album that explores richer textures, more lavish arrangements and emotive pieces: ironically, this is no repetition of what came before, instead offering a rich tapestry of sounds, styles, and emotions.
Bond: The Paris Sessions
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| October 5th, 2011 |
At 26 years old and on the verge of releasing his second album Bond: The Paris Sessions (Decca/Emarcy), Gerald Clayton has achieved several milestones. With a Grammy® nomination for his first album Two-Shade (Artistshare) [Best Improvisational Jazz Song] and now a second nomination on the Clayton Brother’s latest release New Song and Dance, Gerald is no stranger to recognition and acclaim.
Las Pequeñas Cosas
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| September 27th, 2011 |
Josemi Carmona has played a leading role in Spain’s recent music history, and in the way the country’s guitar music has developed over the last few years. Born into one of the great flamenco clans, the Habichuelas (his father is legendary guitarist Pepe Habichuela), he was also a long-time member of hit band Ketama. Las pequeñas cosas is Josemi’s first album as a solo artist.
Road Shows, Volume 2
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| September 5th, 2011 |
Sonny Rollins’s Road Shows, vol. 2, is quite likely to revive the delirious excitement stirred up at the saxophonist’s sold-out 80th-birthday concert held in New York nearly one year ago. Four tracks were recorded that night; one of them is the 20-minute “Sonnymoon for Two” on which Rollins and surprise guest Ornette Coleman performed together in public for the first time in their long acquaintance, with electrifying results.
Midnight Sun
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| August 22nd, 2011 |
Midnight Sun is a collection of love songs from throughout Grammy and Tony Award-winning artist Dee Dee Bridgewater’s critically acclaimed career.
Big Band!
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| August 1st, 2011 |
A few months after the outstanding success of “Rhapsody in Blue” - more than 55,000 copies sold in Italy, 35 weeks in the TOP 100 charts - Stefano Bollani comes back with a new album on the famous Verve label and once more, it’s a surprising one!
Nebula
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| July 18th, 2011 |
The sensual singer from Lisbon leads a stunning all star band through a set of her own songs on a unique blend of her own Potuguese roots music with jazz, folk and modern sounds to make a beguiling new whole.
Songs Of Mirth And Melancholy
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| July 4th, 2011 |
Few contemporary pairings of saxophonist and pianist have been as inspired and productive as that of Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo. Since replacing the late Kenny Kirkland in Marsalis’ quartet in 1998, Calderazzo has blended seamlessly into the uncompromising creative atmosphere of the ensemble and revealed new facets of his own conception, while Marsalis in turn has been inspired by the pianist’s challenging instrumental support and growing strength as a composer. The relationship grows ever deeper, as documented on the new Marsalis Music CD Songs of Mirth and Melancholy.
State of Art
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| July 4th, 2011 |
The stunning new album from emerging bass star Ben Williams.
The Escape
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| June 13th, 2011 |
This new album is like the transition between two lives, two cities, because it was written between Vancouver and Paris. Or, to be precise, between Britannica Beach, the little town an hour away from Vancouver where her house faced the ocean, and Normandy, where she spent many long, peaceful hours facing the sea.
Standing On The Rooftop
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| June 6th, 2011 |
Madeleine Peyroux is in the midst of her journey. Renowned for her interpretive song skills, the vocalist followed her creative muse on 2009’s “Bare Bones” by challenging herself to write a full album of her own compositions. Now with “Standing On the Rooftop” (Emarcy/Decca), she delves deeper into her reinvention, not only writing the bulk of the songs, but pushing past any preconceived notions about her music and daring herself to expand her sonic template.
Wesseltoft Schwarz Duo
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| June 6th, 2011 |
When some collaborations occur, it feels like Fate has been paying close attention, planning something special. On one hand: Bugge Wesseltoft, pianist, composer and pioneer of electronic jazz; on the other: Henrik Schwarz, one of the most sought after producers of electronic music who has remixed stars from Michael Jackson to Ane Brun. This combination may not seem as radical as once it might, as in the days before Bugge’s New Conception of Jazz, but the results most certainly are: this does not feel like your typical electronic jazz outing. It’s a Super-Group in microcosm.
Mano A Mano
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| May 30th, 2011 |
The world renowned piano virtuoso Michel Camilo returns with his latest studio album – a mixture of Latin rhythms and grooves – he’s joined by bassist Charles Flores and drummer Giovani Hidalgo.
Sophisticated Ladies
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| May 16th, 2011 |
One of the finest double bassists in jazz Charlie Haden says more with a few finely chosen notes than many lesser musicians try and say with a hundred. His warm bass tone is the core element of his stunning Quartet West whose smoky, atmospheric approach to jazz has won them critical acclaim for over twenty years.
Love & Revolution
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| May 16th, 2011 |
Nicola Conte’s newest release, Love & Revolution represents a bold new chapter in the career of Nicola Conte – quite possibly his most collaborative record to date, and easily his most righteous as well! Different from his previous releases, Love & Revolution is being released by Impulse Records, which in essence is perfect when you consider that this album is infused with a sense of spiritual jazz.
Caribbean Rhapsody
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| May 16th, 2011 |
Sometimes it takes an extraordinary talent to inspire an unprecedented piece of music. For Puerto Rican–born composer Roberto Sierra, the epiphany struck in the midst of a tenor saxophone solo by James Carter, who was appearing as the featured soloist with legendary soprano Kathleen Battle.
ConJazzNess
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| May 10th, 2011 |
Former Washington, DC lobbyist/attorney, and now an accomplished modern jazz/soul vocalist, Nailah Porter releases her breathtaking debut recording, “ConJazzNess”, (pronounced “consciousness”), on EmArcy Records, the label home of Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Max Roach, and Julian “Cannonball” Adderley.
A Moment's Peace
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| May 2nd, 2011 |
A bona fide guitar hero and masterful improviser, John Scofield has covered a wide spectrum of musical styles with rare authority over the last four decades of his celebrated career.
Gladwell
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| May 2nd, 2011 |
Following his Grammy-nominated 2009 debut Sounding Point, virtuoso guitarist Julian Lage returns with the evocative and finely wrought Gladwell - the second effort by his offbeat, eclectic group.
Fado Tango
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| April 18th, 2011 |
Cristina Branco releases her stunning new album of emotionally charged songs. Branco was originally drawn to jazz and forms of Portuguese music before finally opting for fado after being introduced to the music of Amália Rodrigues by her grandfather. Branco studied the poems from which major fado lyrics are taken. Branco continues to work on her fado repertory, accompanied by Custódio Castelo on guitar and as composer.
Forever Begins
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| April 11th, 2011 |
Rising star pianist Chihiro Yamanaka returns with the follow to her best selling album Abyss with another impressive set of shimmering modern jazz.
Anthology
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| April 4th, 2011 |
Salif Keita's voice is one other mortals can only aspire to. A searing tenor that somehow sounds gritty and glorious all at once, it's a complicated instrument that transcends language barriers, and with its subtle shadings offers solace and succor, joy and even redemption. It's not for nothing that Keita is known as the golden voice of Mali.
Celebration: A Musical Journey
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| April 4th, 2011 |
Sergio Mendes is about to be celebrated with his first ever career retrospective. Marking the 50th anniversary of his debut album, the two-CD Celebration: A Musical Journey (Emarcy/Verve), brings together more than three dozen selections spanning the entire career of the master of the bossa nova beat.
Never Stop
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| January 31st, 2011 |
For the past ten years The Bad Plus – Reid Anderson on bass, Ethan Iverson on piano and David King on drums – have created an uncompromising body of work by shattering musical convention. They mark this milestone with a return to their hardcore instrumental roots with an album of scorching new material that combines all of their daring virtuosity with their wicked sense of humour.
Bailador
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| January 10th, 2011 |
The music in Bailador is abundant, torrential, brilliant and sophisticated. Everything in Portal is here: rigour and fun, knowledge and generosity, dazzling technique, pleasure in profusion, precision, and jeté... You can hear him everywhere: a playful hedonist enamoured of sharing and, at the same, a cerebral, cutting-edge musician.
Good News
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| January 10th, 2011 |
There are swingers and then there is Matt Dusk - a singer, songwriter, producer, arranger and fervent jazz-pop musicologist that spent most of his career reanimating the great American songbook alongside some of his own more quirky pop creations.
Please note:
These are international release dates which will vary by country and that some records may not be available in certain countries because of legal restrictions.