Nick Schofield – Blue Hour

Description

Nick Schofield's 'Blue Hour' is a captivating jazz album that transports listeners to serene soundscapes. Released by Backward Music, this vinyl edition features a collection of ten beautifully crafted tracks that blend improvisation with melodic elegance.

Highlights

Genre: Jazz
Format: Vinyl
Label: Backward Music
Release Date: April 10, 2026
Ten tracks of immersive sound

Track Listing

01. Sky Cafe

02. Magic Touch

03. Dream On

04. Goodnight Sun

05. Imagine Space

06. Natural Wonder

07. Hidden Corner

08. Hotel Cloud

09. Kyoto Kiss

10. Times

Format Details

Label: Backward Music
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2026-04-10
Format: Vinyl

Blue Hour
Artist: Nick Schofield Format: LP Release Date: 4/10/2026

Label: Backward Music
Vendor: Redeye Distribution
Distributor: AMPED
UPC: 990481102235
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 4/10/2026
Product ID: BKWM40.1

Weight: .5 lb

Description

Blue Hour is Nick Schofield's first foray into ambient jazz music. The album is an ambient ode to Miles Davis' In A Silent Way, and opens up Schofield's sonic palette to introduce his childhood instrument, drums, with his contemporary ambient-electronic practice. Blue Hour features the intuitive, and totally improvised, trumpet playing of Scott Bevins (No Cosmos, Busty and the Bass).
Schofield grew up playing drums, but turned to creating experimental-electronic music when studying Electroacoustics at Concordia University. Well-known for his signature ambient aesthetic, Schofield has been called a "dazzling electronic artist" by Aquarium Drunkard and a "synth maven" by Constellation Records. Blue Hour marks the first time that he has merged his percussion practice with his ambient electronic explorations, and it is all in the service of reinterpreting Miles Davis' 1969 watershed recording In a Silent Way. Schofield improvised all of the drumming and main synthesizer parts over the course of a single day, recording in a church in Ottawa. These foundational layers comprise tender Moog pulses and Roland Juno-6 pads, some of which would not be out of place on the back half of Another Green World or Music Has the Right to Children. If this was to be a reflection of In a Silent Way, of course there would need to be trumpet. Schofield invited Bevins to record the missing piece of the album during a one day recording session, where Bevins improvised all his trumpet parts having never heard the songs before. Scott Bevins' contribution gives the music a leading instrumental voice, and his intuitive approach shows a perfect understanding of how to both integrate and elevate the compositions. Blue Hour is itself a profound reference, an ambient adaptation, a dream realized and an uncanny synthesis of sounds, styles, and personal history.

Tracks
Credits

1 Sky Cafe
2 Magic Touch
3 Dream on
4 Goodnight Sun
5 Imagine Space
6 Natural Wonder
7 Hidden Corner
8 Hotel Cloud
9 Kyoto Kiss
10 Times