Catch Up

Jimmy McGriff – Pisces {Stump Juice}
Jacques Schwarz-Bart – Violetta {Resistance}
Branford Marsalis Quartet – Big Nick {Dedicated To You}
Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y – Heart-Shaped Box {Kind Of Grunge}
Timo Vollbrecht – Brighton Blues (feat. Ralph Alessi, Elias Stemeseder, Chris Tordini & Thomas Strønen) {Bremen New York}
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto – Gently Trapped {Fifteen}
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes – Peaceful Ones {Cosmic Funk}
Espen Eriksen Trio – Sepia Sky {Almost There}
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto – Gently Trapped {Fifteen}
Miki Yamanaka – Tucson {Breathe}
John Coltrane – I Want To Talk About You {Live At Birdland}
The Filthy Six – Mr Shmingle Bangle {Return Of The Swagger Junkies: Vol 1}
Sparklmami – Penso En Voce {In This Body}
Erica Tucceri – Grazie Ragazzi {Route 96}
Nicholas Payton, Butcher Brown – Resolution {A Supreme Blue}
John Coltrane – I Want To Talk About You {Live At Birdland}
Branford Marsalis Quartet – Autumn Serenade (with Dianne Reeves) {Dedicated To You}
John Coltrane – I Want To Talk About You {Live At Birdland}
Vanisha Gould – Borough Blues {What An Interesting Girl}
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto – On The Way {Fifteen}
Sylvie Courvoisier – At Risk {Amalthea}
Kris Davis Trio – The Ballerina (feat. Robert Hurst & Johnathan Blake) {Lost in Geneva}
Sparklmami – Running {In This Body}

Horace Silver – The Tokyo Blues
Sonny Rollins – Namely You
Lou Donaldson – Alligator Boogaloo
Freddie Hubbard – You’re My Everything
Dizzy Reece – Groovesville
Bobby Hutcherson – Effi
Grant Green – Red River Valley
Cannonball Adderley – One For Daddy O
Fred Jackson – Dippin’ In The Bag

Muriel Grossmann – The Other One {Plays The Music of McCoy Tyner and Grateful Dead}
Billy Bang – Loweski For Frank (T.F.R.) {Sweet Space}
Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay – L’Africaine {10 compositions de Jean Derome}
Dorothy Ashby – Life Has Its Trials {Afro-Harping}
Atomic – Laterna Interfuit {Lucidity}
Ronald Shannon Jackson and The Decoding Society – Giraffe {Mandance}
Koichi Matsukaze Trio plus Toshiyuki Daitoku – Earth Mother {Earth Mother}
Satoko Fujii ma-do – February – Locomotive – February {Desert Ship}
Kyoko Kitamura / Taylor Ho Bynum / Joe Morris / Tomeka Reid – The Erstwhile {Geometry Of Distance}
Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy – Monk’s Dream {The Mighty Warriors: Live In Antwerp}
Michael Dessin Trio – Fossils And Flows {Forget The Pixel}
Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet – Pearl Symphony #3 (Movement 2) {The Chicago Symphonies}
Wayne Shorter – Iska {Moto Grosso Feio}
Ted Curson – Quartier Latin {Pop Wine}
Joseph Celli & Jin Hi Kim – Valentine Ashes {No World (Trio) Improvisations}
The Marco Eneidi Coalition – Get Out {The Marco Eneidi Coalition}
L’Orkestre des Pas Perdu – Tasse de the {T’auras pas ta pomme}
Brandon Seabrook – Crater For Ascending Angles {Utility Modern}
Spinifex – Admire the Ambiguities {Undrilling the Hole}

Aphex Twin – Avril 14 {Drukqs}
Mali Sheard – When the Sun {single}
Bonobo – Fire on the Water feat. Arooj Aftab {Distance in Static}
Gretchen Parlato – Never Come Down feat. M’shell Ndegeocello and Mark Guilana {The Wise Ones}
Audrey Powne – Swollen {Bodies of Water}
Joyce & Tutty Moreno – Is This Love {Joyce & Tutty Moreno JID027}
Fejao & Samtheman – Basil de Capoeira {single}
Oliver Night – Boss feat. Roots Manuva {Between the Lines (Remixes Vol.3)}
Arfoud Brothers and Sisters – Peace For Everyone {Desert Jazz}
Wonky Logic – Underneath the Same Sky (feat. Vanessa Rani) {single}
Heptet feat. Ashley Slater – Turn On Tune In Drop Out {This is Fucking Nice}
The Crusaders – Street Life feat. Randy Crawford {Street Life}

Horace Parlan – Ray C
Lee Morgan – Search for the New Land
Clifford Brown – Wail Bait
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Africaine
Duke Pearson – Gira, Girou (Round And Round)
Stanley Turrentine & The Three Sounds – Blue Riff
Tina Brooks – Street Singer (feat. Jackie McLean)

Leyo Peña y Su Orquesta- La Gente {Que Traigan el Son Cubano}
Orquesta Akokán- Mami Qué Qué! {América!}
Héctor Lavoe- Hacha y Machete {De Ti Depende}
La Corporación Latina- Libre y Sin Amor {El Orgullo De Puerto Rico}
Orquesta Akokán- Aprendizaje {América!}
Latin Tiempo- El Viejo Engome {Sangre Nueva}
Guayacán Orquesta- Cantando y Soñando (Exitos}
Calambuco- Bongó {Rompiendo el Cuero}
Orchestra Baobab- Utrus Horas {Pirates Choices}
Luis Carlos Vinhas- Tanganica { Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 5}
Mandrill- Cohelo {Mandrill Is}
Fruko y Sus Tesos, Wilson Manyoma- El Preso {Fruko el Grande}

Yussef Dayes – For My Ladies
Future3 – Flares
Marla Kether & Sofia Grant – Reverse
Matt Johnson – Is It Too Late
Finn Rees – Another Spring
Jackson Mathod – Mirage
Sarah Tandy – HyperJazz
Mark Guiliana – D.Rum
Zenel – Spyro Skank
Neue Grafik Ensemble – Queen Assa
Energy Exchange Ensemble – Alkalo
Pyjaen – Shades of July

corto.alto – IJUSTDONTKNOW {Some Small Fortune}
Domi & JD Beck – SOME THiNGS NEVER CHANGE {WHO ASKED?}
Sarah Tandy – Hyperjazz {Delicious Capricious}
Ahmed Sirour – T.G.I.F. (Thank God It’s Funky) {7”}
The Meters – Cardova {The Meters}
Orchestra Mambo International – Yenyere {¡Apúntalo!}
Daniel Poncé – Oromi {Arawe}
The Womack Sisters – If I Let You {The Womack Sisters}
Nils Petter Molvaer – Rome (Martux_m) {Be Quiet}
Fergus McCreadie – The Pass {The Shieling – Companion Pieces}
Elsa Nilsson’s Band of Pulses – Andetag {Liminal}
Mama Terra – Ishi {Inner Space}

In this episode of the ECM Podcast Caro is joined by pianist Nitai Hershkovits, whose leader-debut for ECM Records is an impressive piano-solo album, recorded in Lugano and produced by Manfred Eicher.

In our conversation, Nitai talks about his inspirations, the old wise ones in his life, the recording of this album and the magic of music.