NEW ALBUM RELEASE - Compass hit the streets on January 13, 2009. Joshua calls this album of original tunes "a further exploration of the trio format... an expansion on, and an extension of Back East," his acclaimed 2007 trio session. With a ready-for-anything line-up - bassists Larry Grenadier and Reuben Rogers and drummers Brian Blade and Gregory Hutchinson - he stretches the shape of the trio setting, on the most audacious of these tracks, performing with the entire line-up in a double-trio configuration.

TOUR NEWS: Joshua will be performing three nights at the 30th Anniversary Montreal International Jazz Festival. For more information on these dates and his upcoming European tour click here. 

GUEST APPEARANCE: Joshua appears on Allen Toussaint's new release, The Bright Mississippi. To read about this project visit Allen's page at Nonesuch Records.

Check out Joshua's EPK posted on his official MySpace page. Joshua takes us around his home town of Berkeley, CA and also talks about the making of Compass.