Shuteen Erdenebaatar, Rising Sun, Motéma Music ****

Quite a revelation - Rising Sun from pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar, a musician hailing from Mongolia where she studied in Ulaanbaatar later championed by the Goethe Institute and excelling academically in Munich where she is based, Erdenebaatar is …

Published: 5 Oct 2023. Updated: 2 months.

Quite a revelation - Rising Sun from pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar, a musician hailing from Mongolia where she studied in Ulaanbaatar later championed by the Goethe Institute and excelling academically in Munich where she is based, Erdenebaatar is joined by soprano saxophonist Anton Mangold who also plays flute on the record and by bassist Nils Kugelmann and by drummer Valentin Renner. Tunes are strong, often quite bittersweet and poignant in nature, with hints of folklore from her homeland as on the flute line on 'An Answer From The Distant Hill'. Gentle and thoughtful it's all highly distinctive and speaks to the heart.

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Miho Hazama, m_unit: Beyond Orbits, Edition ***1/2

Absorbing thinking here from New York based Japanese composer and conductor Miho Hazama with her long running band - Hazama has conducted the Danish Radio Big Band and Marius Neset in the past. A 13-strong ensemble with strings, reeds and brass in …

Published: 4 Oct 2023. Updated: 2 months.

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Absorbing thinking here from New York based Japanese composer and conductor Miho Hazama with her long running band - Hazama has conducted the Danish Radio Big Band and Marius Neset in the past. A 13-strong ensemble with strings, reeds and brass in the instrumentation, personnel includes trumpeter Jonathan Powell and alto and soprano saxophonist Steve Wilson. Bass icon Christian McBride and Blue Note alto saxophone star Immanuel Wilkins guest, with Wilkins stealing the show on 'From Life Comes Beauty'. Far from orthodox in the approach there is a lot of delicacy on display but the ensemble has robust power at its fingertips too with the 'Exoplanet Suite' at the heart of the writing.