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Barcelona based Swedish tenor saxophonist Fredrik Carlquist releases his 9th album Saxophone Conversation . The music is built around the interplay between Carlquist and fellow saxophonist Joan Chamorro on baritone, both among the leading sax voices on Barcelona’s jazz scene today. The music stamps off in the swing era and continues to Carlquist’s original compositions where worked out ideas seamlessly melt together with improvisations. A dynamic and melodic music where details matter.The album also features bassists Tom Warburton & Garry Fimister, drummers Caspar St.Charles & Joe Smith, Swedish singer/song writer Richard Lindgren and Catalan trumpet player Andrea Motis which makes this album an interesting documentation from Barcelona’s vital and cosmopolitan jazz scene.

Joan Wasser spent most of the '90s and 2000s playing with everyone from the Dambuilders to Antony and the Johnsons to Jeff Buckley (with whom she was involved when he died), but of all the projects she's been involved in, Joan As Police Woman is the the finest. Real Life seems like an immediately brilliant debut, but, as is usually the case, years of experience went into it.

Smith & Myers – the duo comprising Shinedown’s frontman Brent Smith and guitarist Zach Myers – have released two tracks from their newly-announced full-length album, Smith & Myers Volume 2, out October 23rd via Atlantic Records. The collection follows in the wake of Volume 1’s release on October 9th.

According to her brief liner notes, Patti Smith indulged the idea of a covers album, considering songs as far back as 1978 on the back pages of Jean Genet's Thief's Journal when she was still assembling her groundbreaking early catalog; it's evident she feels that covers have been part and parcel of her recording experience from the outset.