Josh Cole — Kind Mind

Out: October 20th, 2023 on Cassiar Records
Genres: Jazz, Improvisation, Ambient
RIYL: Paul Motian Trio, Barre Phillips, Kim Myhr, Jan Steele, Joseph Shabason, Eberhard Weber.

JOSH COLE / KIND MIND — WEB
CASSIAR RECORDS — BANDCAMP

Josh Cole‘s Kind Mind is yet another imaginative outfit to emerge from Toronto’s vibrant and curious-minded jazz scene. The trio comprises Cole (of the Brodie West Quintet, October Trio, and Sandro Perri’s band) on bass and electronics, acclaimed saxophonist/ clarinettist Karen Ng and the dexterous Michael Davidson on vibraphone and marimba. Their music is a finespun hybrid of their leader’s warm compositional signatures and the ensemble’s improvisational perspicacity, peppered with delicate electronic treatments and environmental recordings. Their vinyl debut sees the band continually walking the borders between chamber music and jazz, building gentle, compact forms with generous amounts of space, graceful melodic figures, and ear-catching textural details. Catch Kind Mind touring in support of this release at Toronto’s Tranzac on October 19th, Vancouver October 28th at Iron Works (presented by Coastal Jazz and Blues) and Calgary October 29th at Highline Brewery (presented by Bug Incision)

COVERAGE:
Year-End — Tim Mah’s Recommended Canadian Jazz Albums of 2023, Four On The Floor
Year-End/ Radio — Jazz Today, CJSW (January 4, 2024)
List — Next Week in Music (Oct. 16-22, 2023), Tinnitist
List — Upcoming Releases, Tinnitist
List — Albums en ribambelle #16 (octobre 2023), Culture Jazz
List — First Listen: New Releases for 20 October 2023, If It’s Too Loud
List — Jazzweek
News — Progressive Rock Journal
News — Jazz News
News — G Point Audio
Interview — Emilea Semancik, Toronto Guardian
Roundup — Frank P. Eckert, Motherboard: November 2023, Groove.de
Round-up — Mario Borroni, Au Canada, Un Renouveau de Long en Large, Citizen Jazz
Review — Jesse Locke, Aquarium Drunkard
Review — Stuart Broomer, The WholeNote
Review — Ivan Rod
Review — Tom Haugen, Take Effect Reviews
Review — Ken Waxman, Jazzword
Review — David Reed, Belleville Intelligencer
Review — Daniel Barbiero, Avant Music News
Review — Jazz-Fun
Review — Will Chernoff, Rhythm Changes
Review — Susan Frances, Jazz2Love
Review — Jan Granlie, salt-peanuts*
Review — Micky Almada, Impronta De Jazz
Review — nitestylez.de
Track Review — Michael Gutierrez, Hump Day News
Podcast/ Radio — The Night Shift (syndicated) (September 8, 2023)
Podcast/ Roundup / Radio — World Of Jazz #622
Video — Milady Noise, Upcoming Albums October 2023
Radio/ Chart — CFBX Top 10 Jazz (May 14, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSR Top 10 Jazz (February 5, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSR Top 10 Jazz (January 29, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSW Top 10 Experimental/ Modern Classical (January 24, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSR Top 10 Jazz (January 8, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CFUV Top 10 Jazz (December 19, 2023)
Radio / Chart — CFUV Jazz Top 10 (December 5, 2023)
Radio/ Chart — Top 10 Experimental / Contemporary Classical, CJSW (November 29th, 2023)
Radio/ Chart — CJSW Weekly Top 30 (November 21, 2023)
Radio — Jazz Amuck, CKUT (May 31, 2024)
Radio — Jazz Today, CJSW (May 30, 2024)
Radio — Humanoid Radio, CFRU (April 30, 2024)
Radio — Humanoid Radio, CFRU (April 16, 2024)
Radio — Humanoid Radio, CFRU (April 2, 2024)
Radio — Noise, CJSW (February 15, 2024)
Radio — Vocal Cords, CJSW (February 12, 2024)
Radio — Noise, CJSW (January 18, 2024)
Radio — Jazz Today, CJSW (January 4, 2024)
Radio — KUBU (January 4, 2023)
Radio — League of Musical Detectorists, KUBU (January 3, 2023)
Radio — KUBU (December 28, 2023)
Radio — League of Musical Detectorists, KUBU (December 27, 2023)
Radio — KUBU (December 21, 2023)
Radio — League of Musical Detectorists, KUBU (December 20, 2023)
Radio — Town Talk Radio Vol. 52 by Tobira Records, Popeye Magazine (December 19, 2023)
Radio — Jazz Fifty-Eight 8, CJSR (January 4, 2024)
Radio — Jazz Fifty-Eight 8, CJSR (December 14, 2023)
Radio — KUBU (December 14, 2023)
Radio — League of Music Detectorists, KUBU (December 13, 2023)
Radio — Jazz Today, CJSW (December 7, 2023)
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Radio — League of Musical Detectorists, KUBU (December 6, 2023)
Radio — Verbal Radio, KUBU (November 29, 2023)
Radio — Co w jazzie piszczy, Jazzkultura (November 29, 2023)
Radio — Breaking the Tethers, CJSW (November 27, 2023)
Radio — Thrust, WYXR (November 26, 2023)
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Radio — League of Musical Detectorists, KUBU (November 22, 2023)
Radio — Noise, CJSW (November 16, 2023)
Radio — Breaking the Tethers, CJSW (November 13, 2023)
Radio — Noise, CJSW (November 9, 2023)
Radio — Elysian Fields, KXCI (November 3, 2023)
Radio — Noise, CJSW (November 2, 2023)
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Radio — Electric Sense, CIUT(September 6, 2023)
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