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Track: Jazz Supergroup Dinner Party Share New Single Sleepless Nights (feat Phoelix)
Dinner Party, the incomparable new supergroup consisting of Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington and 9th Wonder, has released their much anticipated, self-titled debut album Dinner Party, out today on Terrace Martin’s Sounds of Crenshaw / EMPIRE. Coinciding with this news is the release of the group’s new animated music video for the album’s second single and intro track, “Sleepless Nights” featuring Chicago vocalist Phoelix. …
Album Review: JAF Trio – JAF Trio
JAF Trio are an up and coming young Finnish-Danish band featuring Adele Sauros of Superposition, Bowman Trio bassist Joonas Tuuri and drummer Frederick Emil Bülow. They won the We Jazz Rising Star at the We Jazz Festival in 2017 and now that very label are putting out the trios debut album The trio’s self titled …
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 …
Album Review: Simon Jefferis – Vibrations
Brixton based polymath Simon Jefferis returns to rising label DeepMatter with his debut LP ‘Vibrations’. From the golden era energies of ‘Back 2 Ours’ featuring Austin’s Abhi The Nomad, through to the silky smooth melodies of ‘White Rabbit’ (featuring the incredible Rosie Lowe on vocals) and shoulder swaying rhythms of ‘Something In The Water’, ‘Vibrations’ …
TRACK: jazz legend Charles Tolliver returns with ‘Blue Soul’
NOO YOIK jazz trumpet legend Charles Tolliver is poised to release his first studio material in more than decade at the end of this month. The Gearbox imprint will be releasing Connect, on July 31st – the first time we will have heard Charles since his ensemble appearance on Keyon Harrold’s Introducing … in 2009. …
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 …
Track: Jade Emperor – Greener
Jade Emperor has returned with her second single ‘Greener’. Inspired by Etta James, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald, the song focuses on the brighter side of life, imploring the listener to pour water on their own side of life and watch it grow, rather than always thinking it’s greener on the other side. Musically, Greener …
Track: Sparkle Division – You Go Girl!
An unusual partnership it may be, that of renowned composer and tape loop pioneers William Basinski, and young up and coming studio assistant Preston Wendel, but nevertheless, the pair got together under the moniker Sparkle Division and Basinski hauled out his Saxophone as the pair made an album – To Feel Embraced, which mixes up …
Track: Bill Frisell Trio – We Shall Overcome
Legendary Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell has put together a new trio featuring bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston for a new album Valentine, released on August 14th via Blue Note Records. From it, they’ve released their version of the Civil Rights anthem ‘We shall overcome’. “I’ve been playing the song for years, and I’m …