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Geniality from Italy tonight. Sunset Tapes, from jazz wizard Marcello Cassanelli, is a cool trip by a chilled, magnificently performed, jazz-funk album. Strong influences of house and disco music are evident as Marcello drives us through his sensibilities on keys
Read MoreThe one only Jeff The Fish is back with the second volume of his Modern Jazz Dance Classics compilation. Sourcing the depths of contemporary jazz music, the French DJ continuously hunts for new dance material to play in his legendary acts, finding on this golden compilation artists from all over.
Read MoreExpansive and widescreen. Symphonie Pacifique, by Greg Foat - one of the UK’s leading jazz pianists and composers -, is a cinematic piece made of haunting compositions, soul-jazz fusions and electronic soundscapes.
Read MoreDifferent paces, moods and rhythms, but increasingly influenced by club music. Maybe because that’s one of the things we miss right about now. Touches of hip hop, soul and jazz and a lot of pleasurable moments.
Read MoreOver the course of its eight original compositions, Jazz Is Dead 002, made in collaboration with Roy Ayers, sounds startling, new and unexpected. Like an unearthed an unreleased album from Ayers’ classic period in the 1970s.
Read MoreWaaju’s music revives soundscapes from Mali folk music, with Ali Farka Touré being a fundamental inspiration. But the quintet goes beyond that, embracing the different layers of London’s own musical culture. We can hear influences of Moroccan gnawa, Caribbean carnival music, Latin polyrhthms, Malian psychadelic blues…
Read MoreLCSM, standing for Likwid Continual Space Motion, is IG Culture’s new afrofuturistic, nu-jazz, broken beat project connecting the inner sound of London’s melting-pot-type-culture with the streets of Amsterdam and distant outer space. Earthbound contains 21 tracks that, played together, are more like trips to the unattainable spirits.
Read MoreAfter the success of his SJ’s Pockets, Vol. 1 in 2017, it is a pleasure to get back to Jefferis’ new project, his debut LP named Vibrations that dropped via DeepMatter last week - showcasing his evolution as an extremely talented multi-instrumentalist and adaptive producer.
Read MoreBeatmaker Reinier Thijs drops his debut project as a saxophone player and composer through Rucksack Records. Under the name of Thijsenterprise, this Dutch prospect presents Snits, bridging the gap between jazz and hip hop grooves.
Read MoreThe third and final chapter of the Jazzvolution series follows the spirit of its predecessors, showcasing experiments in jazz-influenced hip hop and bringing together a cast that blends celebrated producers with names that need more attention.
Read More50 for the soul. May went by supersonic in the waves of the usual eclectic features we made over this month. Contemporary jazz from some of today’s greats, exciting new hip hop records, electronic bangers for the summer and, through the whole selection, true-to-the-soul creations.
Read MoreFollowing the strong debut from last year, PYJÆN is about to drop a new EP entitled Sage Secrets. The 5-track record mixes the quintet’s influences: from afro-beat to funk, from hip hop to disco, played in a free-flow of ideas that is hard to catalog in any genre.
Read MoreLegendary US saxophonist Gary Bartz meets the UK spiritual jazz collective Maisha for Night Dreamer’s Direct-To-Disc Session, dropping by the end of this week. Recorded in just one take, at Haarlem’s Artone Studio, the sessions capture the vitality of their collaboration.
Read More2019 introduced us to Ebi Soda, an emerging and exciting contemporary jazz act from Brighton. Following the acclaimed Bedroom Tapes EP, comes Ugh, a collection of tunes from the collective’s first ventures into professional recording.
Read MoreSoulstatejazz is a new live ensemble led by Tom Ellis, that just released its first LP on Banoffee Pies Records. The project, entitled Annwn, is composed by six tracks consisting of this hybrid live/electronic jazz-house music and was born out of a 3 day improvisation session.
Read MoreGilles Peterson’s new label Arc Records presents another lost golden nugget, the imprint’s second reissue. One For Me is Shirley Scott’s deeply personal album, a defiant tribute to the music she always desired to create but was shrouded by the demands of her vibrant career.
Read MoreUnder the name of The Sultan’s Swing, the multi talented musician Tom Funk delivers his new project entitled Ignite - a spiritual, psychedelic and cosmic journey of eight full-of-life tracks.
Read MoreKey Elements self-titled debut album drops from Berlin with the Sonar Kollektiv quality stamp, transporting us to a combination of elements from hip hop, trip-hop and soul music into eight tracks of modern, fresh jazz.
Read MoreReleased in 2008, Kaidi Tatham’s second album is considered a kind of holy grail record for dance music fans and jazz heads. In Search Of Hope was Tatham’s statement at that time. A sign of what was to come from him as an artist: uncompromisingly and unapologetically sophisticated modern black music.
Read MoreFor eleven tracks, that go by with absolute smoothness, we are taken into Miles Shannon’s (a.k.a. Cassowary) ideas, challenging us sonically. A melting pot of influences and a lot of things working at the same time.
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