You know those “bubbles” one can enter and forget time and place? One of my favourite bubbles is my “jazz bubble”. Especially when I’m in my car, on a long monotonous journey along the highway.
Here’s two new releases I’d love to get served then.

Sun Thru Trees (USA) – Lavender Crescendo

First up, an uplifting and bright jazz creation from the USA. Solid jazz indeed, but with a serious injection of funk.

It’s a segmented track, feels almost like a medley at times. But with the glorious horn returning and knitting the track together. I actually am not the biggest fan of horns being the lead in my jazz music, but here it works absolutely fabulously.
I would not have wanted it any other way.

Baker’s Brew (USA) – Medium Cool

If the first track was a bright outdoor scenario, we are now taken down into a jazz basement.

A lovely “alternative lounge” kind of vibe. Perfect balance of new and classic jazz arrangement. A calm, smooth affair that seduce us with great guitar play and exquisite percussive work.

And that bass? Building a solid foundation beneath the at times quite free jazz arrangement. Oh yeah, I’m so totally there now. In my jazz bubble.

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Both tracks are found on our reaslly quite excellent Jazz themed Spotify playlist, The “NuJazz/Jazztronica Lounge”, where we collect all the great new Jazz related releases as we discover them.