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Brandee Younger - Gadabout Season
13th Jun 2025
The harpist continues to push boundaries and promote her instrument in the world of jazz, featuring Alice Coltrane's very own harp on her latest release.
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Gadabout Season
Brandee Younger (harp), Rashaan Carter (bass), Allan Mednard (drum), Shabaka (flute, clarinet), Makaya McCraven (drum, percussion), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Courtney Bryan (piano, rhodes), Ele Howell (drum), Niia (vocalist), Josh Johnson (saxophone)
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Shabaka Hutchings... The Next Chapter
17th Apr 2024
As the apprentice retires his saxophone in pursuit of a new quest to master esoteric flutes from across the globe, we reflect on the career that brought him to this momentous new stage of his journey.
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Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace
Shabaka (clarinet, shakuhachi, flute, saxophone), Jason Moran (piano), Nasheet Waits (drums), Carlos Niño (percussion), Brandee Younger (harp), Charles Overton (harp), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (violin, viola, cello), Moses Sumney (vocals), Saul Williams (vocals), Nduduzo Makhathini (piano), Surya Botofasina (synthesizer), E L U C I D (vocals), Esperanza Spalding (bass), Chris Sholar (electronic percussion), Laraaji (vocals), Floating Points (rhodes), André 3000 (flute), Tom Herbert (bass), Dave Okumu (guitar), Marcus Gilmore (drums), Eska (vocals), Rajna Swaminathan (mridangam), Lianne La Havas (vocals), Anum Iyapo (vocals)
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Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert
12th Apr 2024
Only previously released in unofficial capacities, this definitive recording of a 1971 benefit concert features an all-star lineup of spiritual jazz heroes.
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Irreversible Entanglements - Protect Your Light
8th Sep 2023
Embarking on this, their fourth impressive studio release - and first on a major label - the American free jazz collective deliver a rousing mixture of socially-charged spoken word and non-stop musical heat.
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Protect Your Light
Irreversible Entanglements, Camae Ayewa (voice, percussion, synthesizer), Luke Stewart (electric bass, percussion, sound effects, upright bass), Shahzad Ismaily, Keir Neuringer (synthesizer, percussion, clarinet, alto saxophone), Aquiles Navarro (synthesizer, percussion, trumpet), Tcheser Holmes (voice, percussion, drums), Janice Lowe (piano, voice), Sovie (voice), Leslie St. Lewis (cello)
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John Coltrane, 'Africa/Brass'
24th Aug 2023
Whilst underappreciated upon its release, Trane's bombastic first album for Impulse! from 1961 would seal his fate as one of the label's most iconoclastic artists and performers.
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Africa/Brass
John Coltrane Quartet, Garvin Bushell (piccolo), Bill Barber (tuba), Charles Greenlee (euphonium), Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone), Julian Priester (euphonium), Eric Dolphy (flute), Elvin Jones (drums), Reggie Workman (upright bass), Pat Patrick (baritone saxophone), Eric Dolphy (bass clarinet), Julius Watkins (french horn), Robert Swisshelm (french horn), McCoy Tyner (piano), Donald Corrado (french horn), Jimmy Buffington (french horn), Booker Little (trumpet), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Bob Northern (french horn)
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John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy - Evenings At The Village Gate
14th Jul 2023
Our Recording of the Week is a formidable new release that captures an exciting and transitional phase in both artists' careers, in a live quintet recording from 1961.
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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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The Comet Is Coming, 'Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam'
7th Oct 2022
One of London's most unique instrumental trios return for their third full-length record, with deeper explorations in electronic music, psychedelia and jazz.
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1960's Impulse: Essential Mainstream Jazz
5th Jul 2022
We take a look back at some of our favourite mainstream jazz releases from the early Impulse! Records catalogue - from Shirley Scott, to Duke Ellington and Gil Evans.
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The New Wave of Jazz: Free and Avant-Garde Sounds of 1960's Impulse! Records
27th Jun 2022
We take a look back at the first decade of Impulse! Records' influential output, and recommend some of our favourites from groundbreaking artists exploring free, avant-garde and spiritual jazz sounds.
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Ascension
John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone), John Tchicai (alto saxophone), Marion Brown (alto saxophone), Dewey Johnson (trumpet), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Archie Shepp (tenor saxophone), Elvin Jones (drums), McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (upright bass), Art Davis (upright bass)
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Shabaka, 'Afrikan Culture'
31st May 2022
The London multireedist of Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming fame releases his first full solo project, a short album of meditative woodwind music.
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The Blues and the Abstract Truth
28th Jun 2021
One of the unsung trailblazers of 60s jazz, Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth is some of his most widely-remembered work, and just so happens to feature a killer line-up including Eric Dolphy and Freddie Hubbard. We take a look back at Nelson's unique, contemporary interpretation of the blues.
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Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
14th May 2021
The London quartet's follow-up to 2018's stellar Your Queen Is a Reptile is a fearless evolution for the band both musically and thematically; exploring contemporary social struggles with a variety of guest vocal features and expanding their sound with dense arrangements.
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Black to the Future
Sons of Kemet (group), Joshua Idehen (vocals), Eddie Hick (drums), Steve Williamson (tenor saxophone), Tom Skinner (drums), Theon Cross (tuba), Shabaka Hutchings (woodwinds), Moor Mother (vocals), Angel Bat Dawid (vocals), Kojey Radical (vocals), Lianne La Havas (vocals), D Double E (vocals), Cassie Kinoshi (alto saxophone), Nathaniel Cross (trombone), Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet), Kebbi Williams (tenor saxophone)
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Thelonious Monk Quartet at Palo Alto
25th Sep 2020
A unique window into a moment in time; the Thelonious Monk Quartet live a school hall in 1968, at a gig arranged by a 15-year-old, and recorded by the janitor! The results more than live up to the backstory.
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Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
24th Apr 2020
This week Josh pirouettes to Mingus's celebrated jazz-ballet The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady for the latest Classic Album choice.
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Archie Shepp on Impulse!
7th Aug 2019
One of the great saxophonists of the sixties, Archie Shepp made some of the most exciting and politicised recordings of the era, in a series of albums that documented the civil rights struggle.
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The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
15th Mar 2019
Interstellar Messages (via London) from this brilliant trio.
