January 2025 - LYDIALIEBMAN.COM

NEW RELEASE: The Empress (f/ Pureum Jin, Lauren Sevian, Erena Terakubo & Chelsea Baratz) presents ‘Square One’ – out March 21, 2025 via Cellar Music Group

January 30, 2025

All-Female Saxophone Quartet The Empress, featuring Pureum Jin, Lauren Sevian, Erena Terakubo and Chelsea Baratz, presents Debut Album Square One Releasing March 21, 2025 via Cellar Music Group Cellar Music Group is thrilled to announce the March 21, 2025 release of Square One, the debut release from a new all-female saxophone quartet The Empress. The … Read More

NEW RELEASE: Leon Anderson’s ‘Live at Snug Harbor’ is out April 4, 2025 via Outside In Music

January 30, 2025

Drummer, composer, and educator Leon Anderson releases Live at Snug Harbor, an homage to 20 years of music and his start in New Orleans, out April 4, 2025 via Outside in Music A recording, for many, acts as a timestamp of a moment or an imprint of the sound of a particular place. For career … Read More

Live at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater: February 2025

January 28, 2025

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are proudly open this February with a full slate of nightly performances! At Birdland Jazz Club, catch Ms. Lisa Fischer featuring Orrin Evans Trio, Hilary Kole Quartet, Margot Sergent, Jeff Harnar: Confessions of a New Yorker, Mike Stern Band, Summer Camargo Sextet, Julie Benko & Euphonic Gumbo, Catherine Russell, … Read More

NEW RELEASE: Caili O’Doherty’s ‘Bluer Than Blue’ is out March 7, 2025 via Outside In Music

January 24, 2025

Pianist Caili O’Doherty revisits and honors the genius of Lil Hardin Armstrong with Bluer Than Blue, releasing March 7, 2025 via Outside in Music Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong is a name most jazz aficionados recognize, having read it in the annals and footnotes of jazz history, but often mistakenly gloss over it in passing as … Read More

NEW RELEASE: Sharel Cassity’s ‘Gratitude’ is out March 28, 2025 via Sunnyside Records

January 22, 2025

Saxophonist Sharel Cassity to Release Gratitude, a Glowing Celebration of Hope, out on March 29 via Sunnyside Records Featuring Christian McBride, Lewis Nash, and Cyrus Chestnut Internationally acclaimed saxophonist and woodwindist Sharel Cassity’s new release, Gratitude, out March 29th on Sunnyside Records, shares with audiences and listeners a conversation of joy, hope, and celebration. This … Read More

NEW RELEASE: Kaisa’s Machine’s ‘Moving Parts’ is out March 14, 2025 via Greenleaf Music

January 16, 2025

MOVING PARTS TACKLES THE QUESTIONS OF HOME AND BELONGING AS KAISA’S MACHINE STRADDLES THE SONIC WORLDS OF FINLAND AND NEW YORK WITH GRAND COMPOSITIONAL MASTERY – OUT MARCH 14, 2025 VIA GREENLEAF MUSIC Kaisa’s Machine, the quintet led by Finnish bassist and composer Kaisa Mäensivu, is already a powerhouse lauded as a “band of young … Read More

NEW RELEASE: The Dave Robbins Big Band’s ‘Happy Faces’ is out March 21, 2025 (Reel To Real)

January 15, 2025

CELLAR MUSIC GROUP ANNOUNCES ARCHIVAL IMPRINT FROM REEL TO REAL RECORDINGS HAPPY FACES, A COLLECTION OF 1960S RECORDINGS FROM THE DAVE ROBBINS BIG BAND DIGITAL, LP AND CD OUT MARCH 21, 2025 TWELVE RADIANT, PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD RECORDINGS BY THE VANCOUVER LARGE-ENSEMBLE LEGEND — PAIRED WITH ESSAYS FROM CELLAR HEAD CORY WEEDS AND AUTHOR CHRIS WONG … Read More

JAZZ NEWS: Matthew Whitaker Earns NAACP Image Award Nomination

January 8, 2025

Acclaimed Organist Matthew Whitaker Celebrates First NAACP Image Award Nomination On Their Shoulders: An Organ Tribute is Nominated For Outstanding Jazz Album at the 56th NAACP Image Awards Virtuosic artist Matthew Whitaker is celebrating his first-ever NAACP Image Award nomination for On Their Shoulders: An Organ Tribute in the Outstanding Jazz Album category at the … Read More

NEW RELEASE: Sasha Berliner’s ‘Fantome’ is out March 28, 2025 via Outside In Music

January 8, 2025

VIBRAPHONIST AND COMPOSER SASHA BERLINER PRIORITIZES IDEAS AND SOUND FIRST WITH FANTÔME, A METAPHORICAL CHALLENGE TO THE STATE OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, OUT MARCH 28, 2025 (OUTSIDE IN MUSIC) The backdrop of the music scene contemporarily can appear to resemble the apparent divisiveness of broader culture surrounding it, as different views seek to define what … Read More