Canadian vocalist Caity Gyorgy receives a 2025 JUNO Award Nomination for her latest album “Hello! How are you?” (La Reserve Records) in the Vocal Jazz Album of the Year category. Caity has already won two JUNO Awards in this category for her recordings Now Pronouncing (2021) and Featuring (2022). Her 2023 duo album with pianist Mark Limacher titled You’re Alike, You Two was a 2023 JUNO Nominee. A big UM congrats to Caity for this fantastic recognition and achievement!
Miho Hazama Pays Tribute To Thad Jones With Upcoming Album
In celebration of the life and music of one of the greatest jazz composers of the 20th century, Miho Hazama conducts the DRBB and the DRSO in a compelling performance of music arranged and inspired by Thad Jones.
Release date: 7 March 2025, Edition Records
Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones is the latest album from Miho Hazama, the distinguished Japanese / New York based composer, arranger, and conductor, in collaboration with the Danish Radio Big Band. Recognized by Downbeat magazine as one of the “25 for the Future,” Miho Hazama brings a fresh perspective to jazz through her innovative approach. She leads m_unit, her own jazz chamber orchestra, where her complex compositions meet energetic performances. With three albums released on Universal Music Japan and Sunnyside Records, Hazama has consistently explored and expanded the horizons of modern jazz. Her work features collaborations with prominent artists such as Joshua Redman, Lionel Loueke, Stefon Harris, and Gil Goldstein, showcasing her ability to create meaningful musical partnerships.
Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones honours Thad Jones, an influential jazz figure known for his exceptional arrangements and compositions that have left a lasting impact on the genre. In this album, Hazama reinterprets Jones’ work with the Danish Radio Big Band, blending his classic pieces with her own unique compositional style. This fusion creates a dialogue between traditional big band jazz and contemporary musical ideas, offering listeners a nuanced and engaging experience.
Since 2019, Miho Hazama has served as Chief Conductor of the Danish Radio Big Band, following in the footsteps of notable leaders like Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, and Jim McNeely. Under her guidance, the Danish Radio Big Band continues to evolve, integrating traditional big band elements with innovative techniques. Hazama’s expertise extends to conducting esteemed ensembles such as the Metropole Orkest, WDR Big Band, and Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra. Additionally, her role as Associate Artistic Director of the New York Jazzharmonic underscores her influence and leadership within the global jazz community.
Allison Miller Teams Up With One O'Clock Lab Band For New Album - Out Now!
Revered jazz drummer Allison Miller — celebrated for a series of critically acclaimed recordings with both her own band Boom Tic Boom, as well as the jazz supergroup ARTEMIS— was invited in 2022 to guest with the multiple Grammy Award-nominated University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band, under the direction of Alan Baylock. The performance was so successful that Allison and Alan decided to collaborate on an album project together, recording a selection of Allison’s compositions arranged for the One O’Clock Lab Band. With arrangement contributions from Noriko Ueda, Shamie Royston, Jeff Lederer, Sarah Chaksad, Alan Baylock, Ariel Glassman, Brian Lawrence and Dave Glenn, the resulting recordings comprise the al-bum, Big & Lovely. Dynamic, captivating and crackling with energy, highlights among its eight tracks in-clude new versions of Allison’s material like “Congratulations and Condolences,” “Fierce” and “Potomac.”
“At age 12, my drum teacher, Walter Salb, had me sit in with his pro big band, the Time Was Orchestra. By age 14 I became the regular drummer in that big band, eventually recording an album with them. There is nothing quite like swinging a big band from the drum throne and it’s the best way for a young jazz drummer to cut their teeth,” explains Allison. “Ever since then it’s been on my bucket list to make a big band album with my own compositions. Fast forward to today and it is finally happening with the release of Big & Lovely. I couldn’t be more thrilled to have collaborated with Alan Baylock and the prestigious One O’Clock Lab Band on this project. It just felt right from the very beginning and I am immensely grateful to the tal-ented students for their hard work, passionate energy, and exemplary performance on this album!”
2025 Grammy Nomination for Pianist Sean Mason
Pianist Sean Mason received a 2025 Grammy nomination in the Best Vocal Jazz Album category for My Ideal (Dot Time Records), his duo album with acclaimed vocalist Catherine Russell. Congratulations to Sean and Catherine!
New Artist Announcement: Caity Gyorgy
We are very excited to announce the signing of Caity Gyorgy to the Unlimited Myles roster!
Caity Gyorgy (pronounced George) is a two-time JUNO award winning Canadian vocalist known for singing bebop and swing music. In addition to being a performer, Caity is an avid writer and composes songs in the style of the Great American Songbook. Her compositions have been sung by other vocalists around the world, and have won multiple awards including the Grand Prize in the jazz category of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She has released several albums of original and standard music including her two JUNO award winning albums "Now Pronouncing" and "Featuring" and her JUNO nominated album with pianist Mark Limacher titled "You’re Alike, You Two”.
Her upcoming album "Hello! How Are You?" features Caity accompanied by her regular piano trio and will be released on August 9th, 2024
Luciana Souza on NPR Tiny Desk
Luciana Souza and Trio Corrente make their NPR Tiny Desk premiere, performing selections from the Grammy-nominated album Cometa. Take a listen and enjoy!
BILLY CHILDS WINS HIS SIXTH GRAMMY!
Billy Childs has won his sixth Grammy award for BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM for “The Winds of Change” (Mack Avenue Records)
ABC names Matthew Whitaker "Person of the Week"
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir shared an update on blind musical prodigy, Matthew Whitaker, who’s paying it forward by raising money for Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School that helped him along the way. After the segment aired, ABC named Matthew “Person of the Week.”
New Artist Announcement: Sunny Jain
Watch Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East Behind the Scenes short documentary.
“Epic in every sense... A global musical alchemist and cultural agent provocateur.” - Songlines (UK)
“Jain breaks open the image of the swaggering American cowboy with his acidic, twangy, propulsively hypnotic songs. It's an inspired cinematic concept that conjures kaleidoscopic images. Jain has crafted a masterful, robust celebration of America's immigrant cowboy soul.” - All Music
We are delighted to welcome Sunny Jain to the Unlimited Myles family!
Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East encompasses myriad facets of Jain’s identity both as a first-generation South Asian–American and as a global musician, from his own family’s immigration story to his eclectic musical upbringing. In recasting the immigrant—steeped in the courage to leave a familiar homeland for a new beginning—as the modern-day cowboy and cowgirl, Jain sources musical inspiration from the scores of Bollywood classics and Spaghetti Westerns, Punjabi folk traditions, jazz improvisation, and rollicking psychedelic styles.
Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East is rooted in the contemporary global soundscape, singing in a new voice, “I am large, I contain multitudes.”
New Albums from Unlimited Myles Artists
Fall brings new music from drummer Allison Miller, composer Miho Hazama, and vocalist Luciana Souza with Brazil's Trio Corrente.
Vocalist Luciana Souza and the Brazilian Trio Corrente collaborate for the first time on Cometa. Celebrate the reemergence of hope in Brazil with a collection of inspiring music highlighting the power of Brazilian song and the limitless expression of jazz.
Cometa is out on Sunnyside Records on 25 August 2023
Beyond Orbits is the vibrant new album from composer and conductor Miho Hazama, performed by her ensemble “m_unit" which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2023.
Beyond Orbits is out on Edition Records on 29 September 2023
Rivers In Our Veins is an original song cycle celebrating and inspired by our nation's waterways.
The live show includes Allison's sextet plus two tap dancers, a contemporary dancer and art projections by Todd Winkler.
Rivers In Our Veins is out on Royal Potato Family on 6 October 2023
Billy Childs Los Angeles World Premiere!
On November 18th and 19th, Billy Childs, along with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, the Billy Child Jazz-Chamber Ensemble, and the Lyris Quartet, will premiere hi latest commissioned work titled In the Arms of the Beloved.
Billy was in Frankfurt, Germany recently with Alicia Olatuja and the hr-Bigband performing selections from Billy’s project Reimagining Laura Nyro. You can watch the archived livestream below!
Chasing Comets: Luciana Souza featured in Downbeat Magazine
“I use music as my companion while the comet makes me aware.”
Luciana Souza’s collaboration album with Trio Corrente titled Cometa (Sunnyside Records) holds a place of prominence in the DownBeat Magazine November 2023 issue. From the gloom of the pandemic to the civil unrest and political discord of her home country, Luciana dives into the origins of Cometa and the hope it brings. “[Cometa is] about helping each other out, to be resilient, to be in the resistance as jazz musicians.”