4th June 2012: Nick Vayenas’ ‘Nick Vayenas’ and Zhenya Strigalev’s ‘Smiling Organizm’ release worldwide today!

  Whirlwind Recordings is proud to announce the worldwide release of Nick Vayenas ‘Nick Vayenas’ and Zhenya Strigalev’s ‘Smiling Organizm’ TODAY!! Now you can purchase both of these albums at our store in CD Format, Digital Album + Liner Notes, or Individual Tracks.   ‘Nick Vayenas’ is Nick Vayenas’ debut

4th June 2012: Introducing our new and improved You Tube Channel

  We’ve completely revamped and updated our You Tube Channel and now you can view ‘Playlists’ of all of our artists.  Each artists’ playlist contain a mixture of amateur and professionally made clips from their various concerts from around the world.  As we source new videos we’ll be adding them,

3rd June 2012: Introducing the new Whirlwind Recordings Audio/Soundcloud page.

  We’re very excited to announce that our new Soundcloud page is up and running.  We’ve uploaded a selection of full track samplers at super high quality from all of our releases and you can stream them to your hearts delight. Here’s a sneak preview below, and this has also

30th May 2012: The Aruan Ortiz & Michael Janisch quintet featuring Greg Osby Southbank Center/Purcell Room concert now for sale

  Tickets are now on sale for a major London Jazz Festival headlining concert for the Aruan Ortiz & Michael Janisch Quintet (featuring Greg Osby) at the famous Purcell Room of the Southbank Center in London.  This event will be the official European CD release launch for the band for

30th May 2012: Zhenya Strigalev ‘Smiling Organizm’ with review in Jazz Breakfast…

Another review today for Zhenya Strigalev’s release ‘Smiling Organizm’ has just appeared on Peter Bacon’s ‘Jazz Breakfast’ which is a popular blog site in the UK. Click here to read.  CLICK HERE  to visit ‘Smiling Organizm‘ page which will release in just a few days!! (June 4th worldwide).    

29th May 2012: WWR artists George Crowley, Euan Burton, and Zhenya Strigalev in this month’s Jazzwise with featured articles & reviews

  A strong showing of three WWR artists (George Crowley, Euan Burton, and Zhenya Strigalev) in the June 2012 issue of Jazzwise Magazine— all three get great reviews, and Zhenya also get’s a featured article for his album ‘Smiling Organizm’ which launches next week.  Zhenya is always full of unique

27th May 2012: Partikel with great review for ‘Cohesion’ from Danish Jazz Blog JazzNYT

Partikel, one of the UK’s most talked about new bands, has just received a great review by the popular Danish jazz blog site ‘JazzNYT’ for their inaugural WWR Jan ’12 release ‘Cohesion.’  This is a shared review alongside the world renown trio ‘Fly’ so the guys are pretty excited to

27th May 2012: The great press begins for Zhenya Strigalev’s ‘Smiling Organizm’ from London Jazz

London based Russian alto saxophonist Zhenya Strigalev is about to launch his debut WWR album ‘Smiling Organizm’ in just over 1 week from today.  Here’s our original news post on this exciting release, which features an all star cast of musicians in bass titans Larry Grenadier and Tim Lefebvre, the

25th May 2012: George Crowley gets 4 stars in the Guardian today for ‘Paper Universe’

 London based saxophonist-on-the-rise George Crowley has had a great month– he’s released his debut album (see little reddish-orange monster to the left), and since its release has received universal acclaim from a large swath of the major jazz press across the UK.  Just yesterday he received a 4 star review

21st May 2012: Whirlwind Recordings confirms new distribution deals in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Luxembourg, Austria, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and Australia

  Whirlwind Recordings is going places………… We’ve had a great month so far releasing albums by George Crowley and Euan Burton (both have had GREAT support so far), but also we’re very exciting to say that our label is going places in a big way! We’ve just signed up brand

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