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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 20th September 2024
20th Sep 2024
Highlights this week include Nubya Garcia's gorgeous Odyssey, Markus Harm's cosmic Out in Space... and seeing as he's taken into the cosmos let's give Sun Ra's Jazz in Silhouette another spin.
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Odyssey
Esperanza Spalding (vocals), Nubya Garcia (music production, tenor saxophone), Chineke! Orchestra (strings), Joe Armon-Jones (piano, keyboards), Daniel Casimir (double bass), Sam Jones (drums), Jansen Santana (percussion), Richie (vocals), Sheila Maurice-Grey (trumpet, flugelhorn), Rosie Turton (trombone), Georgia Anne Muldrow (vocals), James Douglas (cello)
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Meshell Ndegeocello - No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
16th Aug 2024
Meshell Ndegeocello's celebration of the Harlem-born writer and civil rights activist is both an homage and a call to action, urging listeners to engage with Baldwin’s ideas and the urgent social issues which they address.
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No More Water
Meshell Ndegeocello
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 29th March 2024
29th Mar 2024
Amongst the highlights this week is Cyrille Aimee's first self-penned album A Fleur de Peau, Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro and Marilyn Mazur are captured live in 2023, and Lonnie Smith's Afro-Desia goes all psychedelic on us...
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Michiel Stekelenburg - Catharsis
27th Mar 2024
Guitarist / composer Michiel Stekelenburg takes us on a moving journey through his deepest inner emotions, looking for resolution and closure for himself, and offering up a compelling long player for us all to enjoy.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 22nd March 2024
22nd Mar 2024
This week's round-up includes a double instalment of double bass wizardry, a previously unreleased Alice Coltrane live recording, Kjetil Mulelid's music for ensemble, some rather out-there improvisations from Shiver & Matthew Bourne, and a collection of songs from vocalist Lauren Kinsella...
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Jazz New Release Round-up - 28th July, 2023
28th Jul 2023
Our weekly round-up of the new releases includes music from Alex LoRe, The Dam Jawn, and Steve Lacy on vinyl.
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Astrud Gilberto (1940-2023)
8th Jun 2023
The Brazillian chanteuse, synonymous with the bossa nova craze of the 1960s, has died aged 83.
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Joshua Jaswon - Polar Waters
2nd Jun 2023
Having moved to Berlin and formed his own ensemble, UK-born composer and saxophonist Joshua Jaswon's Polar Waters is a compelling album that combines jazz, poetry and song to memorable effect.
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Brandee Younger - Brand New Life
14th Apr 2023
On her gorgeous new album Brand New Life Brandee Younger moves the jazz harp into lush new territory, embracing hip-hop-inspired beats and R&B moods in her hypnotic sound world.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 14th April 2023
14th Apr 2023
Highlights this week include Fire! Orchestra, the percussion section of Bayerisches Staatsorchester, and jazzy trip-hop from Sharky.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 7th April 2023
7th Apr 2023
Super smooth harp from Brandee Younger, a cinematic tribute from Erik Truffaz, and Walter Smith III's debut for Blue Note are some of the highlights from this week's batch of new releases.
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Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani - Les Égarés
7th Apr 2023
The quartet of kora player Ballaké Sissoko, cellist Vincent Sega, saxophonist Emile Parisien, and accordionist Vincent Peirani come together to produce one of the freshest-sounding releases of the year so far.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 31st March 2023
31st Mar 2023
A round-up of the week's new releases, including abstractions from Mats Gustafsson and Joachim Nordwall, a piano trio set from Sultan Stevenson, and a release for London Brew, a lock-down project that reimagines Bitches Brew for the 21st century.
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Tristan Banks - View From Above
31st Mar 2023
With over 30 years of experience, drummer Tristan Banks delivers an outstanding debut recording, brimming with energy and imagination.
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 24th March 2023
24th Mar 2023
The latest new jazz releases include the late, great Pharoah Sanders live in Hamburg in 1980, Jeff Goldblum and The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Cécile McLorin Salvant and prog-jazz nourishment from Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere.
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Billy Childs, The Winds of Change
24th Mar 2023
Celebrated pianist, composer and bandleader Billy Childs proves that he is still at the forefront of post-bop on his new album The Winds of Change, a collection loosely inspired by film noir soundtracks.
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The Winds of Change
Billy Childs (piano)
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2022 Jazz Goodbyes
4th Jan 2023
A short video tribute remembering some of the jazz musicians, producers, and composers who died during 2022.
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Jazz Recordings of the Year - Winners 2022
9th Dec 2022
After much deliberation, we are thrilled to reveal our top five Jazz Recordings of the Year.
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Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022)
26th Sep 2022
The legendary jazz saxophonist, whose career spanned over six decades and was instrumental in the development of the 'spiritual jazz' sound, has died aged 81.
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The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone), Don Cherry (cornet), Jack Jeffers (bass trombone), Jimmy Knepper (trombone), Howard Johnson (tuba), Andrew Cyrille (drums), Carla Bley (piano), Bob Northern (french horn), Kent Carter (bass guitar), Lew Tabackin (tenor saxophone), Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone), Charles Davis (baritone saxophone), Bob Donovan (alto saxophone), Lloyd Michels (flugelhorn), Larry Coryell (guitar), Beaver Harris (drums), Ron Carter (bass guitar), Al Gibbons (soprano saxophone), Steve Swallow (double bass), Roswell Rudd (trombone), Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone), Cecil Taylor (piano), Bob Cunningham (bass guitar), Michael Mantler
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DOMi & JD BECK- NOT TiGHT
19th Aug 2022
From teenage YouTube sensations to pukka Blue Note artists in just a few years, DOMi & JD BECK's debut album NOT TiGHT is a riot of live breakbeats and dazzling keyboards, with some starry guest artists joining in the fun.
