Palmetto Records

Jazz is too often portrayed as an art form defined by blazing young artists. It’s true that many jazz masters reach a mid-career plateau marked by small variations on a mature style. But there’s also a vanguard of players and composers who continue to refine and expand the art form in middle age and beyond, like Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Henry Threadgill, and piano maestro Fred Hersch, who is marking his 60th year with an astonishing creative surge. Slated for release by hi

Floating, the remarkable album by the Fred Hersch Trio, brings the pianist back into forbidding territory. After a run of lightning-in-a-bottle live albums, he returned to the studio to document the ongoing evolution of his primary ensemble featuring bassist John Hebert and drummer Eric McPherson. The album captures the trio in exceptional form, playing with nonpareil rhythmic resourcefulness, ravishing lyricism, and telepathic interplay. The trio’s last release, 2012’s Fred

Drummer Matt Wilson Celebrates the Memory of his Late Wife Felicia and his Extended Musical Family on Beginning of a Memory. Matt Wilson’s Big Happy Family gathers the members of the Matt Wilson Quartet, Arts & Crafts, and the Christmas Tree-O into one spirited ensemble “[Matt Wilson is] clear and swinging, attuned to color, pitch and the overall sound of his drum set… there’s a specific kind of gentle humor in [his] band.” —Ben Ratliff, T he New York Times “Matt Wilson has n

Red Sky on Hornblow Recordings/Palmetto Records and distributed by RED. First single 'Shot' will impact college, Triple-A, and alternative radio in May. Moon Hooch tour relentlessly and, in addition to the dates already made public, they will soon be announcing an extensive worldwide tour that will fill up 2016 and carry them straight through 2017. Over the past several years, Moon Hooch has successfully transitioned their heart-pounding, impromptu subway platform raves from

Fred Hersch swoops and soars in his high-flying interactive trio. He sets a daunting standard as an exploratory duo partner and s brilliantly detailed compositions and arrangements for variously configured chamber ensembles. But as an improviser of unsurpassed lyricism and technique he’s at his most intimate and revealing in a solo setting. With Fred Hersch Solo, the pianist kicks off a creatively fecund yearlong celebration of his 60th birthday with a definitive statement of