New Music Releases: Wallace Roney, Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves featuring Maucha Adnet , Red Kite

Wallace Roney - Blue Dawn – Blue Nights

Fantastic trumpet work from the great Wallace Roney – the kind of record that really lets the legend show his strengths in the best sort of way – with plenty of those trademark long-blown, well-inflected notes that have always graced his music! The set is definitely blue – blue in tone, blue in construction – and Roney blows in a core group with Emilio Modest on tenor and soprano, Oscar Williams II on piano, and Paul Cuffari on bass – with shifting drum work from Lenny White or Kojo Odu Roney, plus guitar from Quintin Zoto on a few tracks. Wallace has a strong sense of color throughout, very much living up to his legacy – and titles include "In A Dark Room", "Venus Rising", "Elliptical", "Why Should There Be Stars", "Wolfbane", and "New Breed".  ~ Dusty Groove

Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves featuring Maucha Adnet -Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim

A set dedicated to the memory of Antonio Carlos Jobim, but one that's hardly just the usual variation on his classic numbers – as only a few tunes here are actually by the composer, and all of the music has that fresh sort of sparkle that we always love in the Brazilian jazz material from drummer Duduka Da Fonseca! The core pairing here is Duduka and pianist Helio Alves, who also plays Fender Rhodes on some numbers too – and the duo get help from singer Maucha Adnet on about half the record, a key part of this trio who've been working together for over twenty five years. The set also features bass from Hans Glawischnig, saxes and flute from Billy Drewes, and guitar from Romero Lubambo – on titles that include "Pato Preto", "Gemini Man", "Helium", "A Vontade Mesmo", "Polo Pony", "Pedro Bonita Da Gavea", "A Correnteza", and "Untitled".  ~ Dusty Groove

Red Kite - Red Kite

A heady slice of psych jazz from Norwegian combo Red Kite – a group with strong to ties to Norway's free jazz scene and a way of pairing that kind of adventurous experimentalism with heavy psych and prog influences! Kicking off their self-titled album with a heavy take on Alice Coltrane's "Ptah, The El Daoud" with rolling drums, spacey keys and fuzzy guitars that go heavy and cosmic, unlike the soaring and spiritual original – while the remaining all original numbers roll from lumberingly heavy to spaciously moody. The group is a quartet featuring Even Helte Hermansen on guitars, Tronde Frones on bass, Bernt Andre Moen on keys and Torstein Lofthus on drums, and titles include "13 Enemas For Good Luck", "Flew A Little Bullfinch Through The Window", "Focus On Insanity" and "You Don't Know, You Don't Know". ~ Dusty Groove