jazz tracks
Track: Spaza release new track ‘Xolile Mosi’ ahead of album
You know that jazz never goes away- it ebbs and flows in profile and popularity. But over the last five years or so jazz music has reached out, edged its way over musical borders and re-energised around unlikely geographies in south London, Chicago and Johannesburg. The label Mushroom Hour Half Hour has been a pillar …
Track: Kasperi Sarikoski releases ‘Wide Lanes’ ahead of new album
The trombonist – always the bridesmaid, the ugly duckling – you sometimes wonder where jazz would be if Miles or Coltrane were trombone players. Sure the big band era had its fair share of t-bone wielding leaders, JJ Johnson showed the slider could rip up be-bop’s rule book and more recently Trombone Shorty has delivered …
Track: Cosmic Vibrations ft. Dwight Trible release new single, Nature’s Vision
Taken from their upcoming debut album Pathways and Passeges, Cosmic Vibrations, out via Spiritmuse Records on September 29th – the six piece jazz ensemble led by acclaimed vocalist Dwight Trible have released a new single, Nature’s Vision. Transcendent and spiritual, Nature’s Vision creeps along at first, full of indigenous sounds and almost drones, hypnotic music. …
Track: Mammal Hands reveal new Track ‘Ithaca’
Norwich is a place that always feels distant and that sense of space sweeps through the music of Mammal Hands. Formed in the UK’s most easterly city in 2012 the jazz based trio of brothers Nick and Jordan Smart (on piano and sax respectively) with Jesse Barrett (providing drums and percussion) make an expansive sound …
See: Takuya Kuroda reveals new video for the jazz/funk of ‘Change’
Japanese trumpeter Takuya Kuroda, perhaps best know for his 2014 Blue Note album ‘Rising Son’ (produced by José James no less) recently signed to First World Records, and has announced his new LP ‘Fly Moon Die Soon’ is out on September 14th. From it, he’s shared a new single ‘Change’. Breezy jazz chords and this …
Track: Mammal Hands announce new album and release track, “Chaser”
WITH all the jazz noise coming out of South London these days it is easy to forget that the pulse continues to beat elsewhere. Mammal Hands have been steadily developing their individual pursuit of contemporary fusion music on Matthew Halsall’s esteemed Gondwana Records since their 2014 debut, Animalia. Now comes news of their fourth album …
Track: Legendary jazz fusion figure Jon Hassell releases ‘Unknown Wish’
Jon Hassell, trumpet player, sonic explorer and elder statesman of the ambient fusion scene has offered up another preview from his upcoming album ‘Seeing Through Sound/Pentimento Volume Two’. Unlike the previously released teaser the protracted and tensely metronomic ‘Fearless’, the new track ‘Unknown Wish’ offers up numerous possibilities in a succinct three -minute excursion. Moving …
Track: Jyoti (Georgia Anne Muldrow) releases new track ‘Orgone’
Described as an ‘R&B and astral-funk polymath’, the singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Georgia Anne Muldrow is an artist in perpetual creative motion. She has co-founded her own label Someothaship Connect Records, been produced by Madlib and received a Grammy nomination for her 2018 futurist soul, Flying Lotus endorsed album ‘Overload’. Now Muldrow returns for …
Limited EP: Pyjæn – Sage Secrets
‘Sage Secrets‘ is the latest EP from PYJÆN, a quintet that seamlessly melds funk, afro-beat and contemporary sounds with nods to hip-hop and disco, whilst acknowledging the heady days of 1920’s era jazz. The EP takes the listener on a tour of the group’s broad influences. It’s rock-solid rhythm section, triumphant brass fanfares and truly …
See: Dan Pugach Nonet reveal live video for ‘My Favourite Things’
Famously covered by John Coltrane, the Rogers and Hammerstein classic passed over from show tune to standard a long time ago. Brooklyn based Grammy nominated drummer and composer Dan Pugach Has arranged the tune for his Nonet, and they’ve just released the resulting accompanying video. Difficult to arrange given its a tune that everyone knows …