World of Jazz 696

The featured album on this edition is from Guitarist Miles Okazaki who gathers an extraordinary cast of ten musicians to create Miniature America,  a collection of 22 vignettes exploring the wonder of chance encounters and “found” compositions. I am featuring four of these pieces. The rest of the show includes brand new releases of both studio and live albums from Aurora Nealand, Mark Helias, Tim Berne, Brasstactics, Chris McDonald Jazz Orchestra, Devin Daniel, Ivo Perelman, 
Kim Cass,  Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri, Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fuji, Nick Rosario,
Paula Maya, Frank Paul Schubert, Michel Pilz, Stefan Scheib, and Klaus Kugel.