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Latest releases from Enrico Pieranunzi and Bert Joris, Julien Baker and Femi Kuti and Made Kuti

Enrico Pieranunzi & Bert Joris
Afterglow
(Challenge Records)
★★★★

THE outcome of a collaboration between Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi and Belgium trumpeter and flugelhorn player Bert Joris, Afterglow is a delightful instrumental jazz record.

Recorded in Belgium, these original lyrical sketches — with Pieranunzi taking the lion’s share of the writing — run through a variety of tones.


Julien Baker
Little Oblivions
(Matador)
★★★★


Femi Kuti and Made Kuti
Legacy +
(Partisan Records)
★★★★

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