jazz
Meet: Gregory Porter ahead of his album release ‘All Rise’
As you know at Back Seat Mafia we feature music of quality and distinction, well known and unknown, anything that has integrity…no pretenders. So when the chance came up to interview Gregory Porter, singer, songwriter and jazz ambassador, it was too good to pass by – the man is the real deal. We talked to …
Track: Swarvy – Bones
Philadelphian multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer Swarvy makes his solo debut on Kamaal Williams’s imprint Black Focus with a stunning new EP entitled ‘Sunny Days Blue’ — his first release as the primary vocalist. Swarvy has shared the opening track ‘Bones’. A gentle flowing track of picked guitar and deep bass with Swarvy’s vocals laying sweetly over the …
Track: Spires That In The Sunset Rise announces new album, and share the first track ‘Sax Solfa’
Experimental psych jazz duo Spires That In The Sunset Rise announces new album, Psychic Oscillations due October 9 via FPE records & share the first track “Sax Solfa” A kaleidoscope of sounds float throughout this track and theres a hint of Focus in the vocals. There’s a sense of movement in the way the various sounds fade …
See: Kamaal Williams Shares Video For Track ‘Hold On’ feat Lauren Faith
Following the release of his sophomore album Wu Hen via Black Focus Records, Kamaal Williams shares the new music video for ‘Hold On’, one of the lead singles that features Lauren Faith and was directed by Broken Antenna and Océane Combeau. Broken Antenna share more context on the video: “We’ve known Kamaal since we were …
TRACK: THE BUDOS BAND DROP BRAND NEW SINGLE ‘LONG IN THE TOOTH’
The Budos Band share new single ‘Long In The Tooth’ taken from the album ‘Long In The Tooth’ due October 9th via Daptone Records “In some ways, itʼs reminiscent of our first two albums The Budos Band and Budos II,” says Tom Brenneck. “We branched off on Burnt Offering and Budos V. Now, weʼre still …
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 …
Track: Matthew Herbert remix of Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela’s stand-out track ‘We’ve Landed’
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela’s stand-out track ‘We’ve Landed’, originally released early this year, taken from their critically acclaimed collaborative album ‘Rejoice’. ‘We’ve Landed’ has been reinterpreted in remix form by world-renowned minimalist electronic producer Matthew Herbert in the wake of Tony Allen’s sudden passing in April, at the age of 79. “It was already a …
ALBUM REVIEW: Busty and the Bass – ‘Eddie’: Canadian ensemble bring souljazz sass on their second
Busty and the Bass’s ‘Eddie’, their second, is cool, sophisticated, considered; sassy and brassy
TRACK: MUCK SPREADER SHARE NEW SINGLE CARNAL TONGUES & ANNOUNCE NEW EP RODEO MISTAKES
The improvisational collection that go under the name Muck Spreader, are about to unleash onto the world their EP Rodeo Mistakes due September 4th via Brace Yourself Records. To go with this news the band have shared the brilliant single ‘Carnal Tongues’ On ‘Carnal Tongues’, Muck Spreader offer the following, “Hop into the passenger side, …
SEE: Jaga Jazzist – ‘Tomita’: jazz collective quest towards the ‘Pyramid’
THE SMALL Norwegian city of Tønsberg, 100km south-west of Oslo, isn’t somewhere you necessarily think of when you think of grand centres of jazz. New Orleans, yep, New York City? Of course; but Tønsberg? Yes, Tønsberg: which is where, back in the ’90s, a 14-year-old Lars Horntveth, his brother Martin and early fellow traveller Ivar …