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John Carter / Bobby Bardford
Self Determination Music (LP) [ Flying Dutchman Records / - released 29/Sep/2023 ] The John Carter and Bobby Bradford Quartet/Quintet were critical to the progressive jazz movement around Los Angeles in the late 60s alongside the likes of Horace Tapscott. Both hailed from the Watts area and trumpeter, Bradford played with a... |
David Virelles
Antenna (10") [ ECM / 10in - released 2/Dec/2016 ] The music of Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist David Virelles conjures a hallucinatory world in which ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms and ritual reverberate in the here and now. His latest ECM offering is Antenna, music attuned to a timeless... |
Alice Coltrane
Ptah The El Daoud (Gatefold 12") [ Verve / Impulse! / 12in - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane home in 1970, Alice Coltrane's fourth album is a masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode to the Egyptian God Ptah (the El Daoud meaning "the beloved"). |
Kamaal Williams
New Heights / Snitches Brew (12") [ Black Focus Records / 12in - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Following a stellar 2018 for Black Focus, Henry Wu's new imprint that set the levels with acclaimed debut LPs from Kamaal Williams and Mansur Brown, worldwide tours and international collaborations, Kamaal Williams returns. |
Kamasi Washington
Harmony Of Difference (12") [ Young Turks / 12in - released 29/Sep/2017 ] Harmony of Difference originally premiered as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art 2017 Biennial alongside a film by A.G. Rojas and also featuring artwork by Kamasi Washington's sister, Amani Washington. The new music is an original six-part... |
Roy Brooks
Beat (12") [ Verve US / 12in - released 25/Nov/2022 ] Recorded for Berry Gordy's short-lived Workshop Jazz imprint and recorded at the Hitsville USA studio, Roy Brooks (joined by fellow Detroit natives George Bohannon and Hugh Lawson, along with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, and Eugene Taylor) injects a... |
Tomorrow Comes The Harvest (Prabhu Edouard, Jean-Philippe Dary, Jeff Mills)
Evolution (Double 12") [ Axis / 2 12in - released 23/Feb/2024 ] Tomorrow Comes The Harvest is the accumulative efforts of talented musicians and their visions about what makes the art form of music so special. A theory initiated and put into action by late Afro Beat creator and Nigerian Drummer Tony Allen and... |
Miles Davis
Paradise (7") [ Rhino / Warner / 7in - released 9/Aug/2019 ] Miles Davis shocked the music world in 1985 when he left Columbia Records after 30 years to join Warner Bros. Records. In October of that year, he began recording the album Rubberband in Los Angeles at Ameraycan Studios with producers Randy Hall and... |
The Toreadors
Thembi / Gwinyitshe (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 11/Jun/2021 ] This deep soul-jazz double-sider, recorded on October 3rd, 1972, was released as a seven-inch single on Motella, one of the many labels of the Mavuthela Music division of Gallo Africa (now Gallo Record Company). Mavuthela was founded by the talent... |
Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba (LP) [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
Azymuth
Águia Não Come Mosca [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] A splendid Brazilian jazz-funk-fusion album from the legendary Azymuth, originally issued in 1977, is now available again! The music moves from mellow soulful moods, into screaming disco-jazz fusion, samba funk and synth boogie, and ends with a tough... |
John Scofield Trio
Uncle John's Band [ ECM / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] Named for the Grateful Dead song that concludes this inspired double album, Uncle John's Band features masterful guitarist John Scofield at his most freewheeling. Wide ranging repertoire finds his trio with Vicente Archer and Bill Stewart tackling... |
Abbey Lincoln
Who Used To Dance (LP) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The late Abbey Lincoln was one of the greats in jazz singing and composition. 65 at the time of this recording, the singer performs a fiery musical statement and maintains her own distinctive manner of delivering a lyric. This 1998 Verve release... |
Abdullah Ibrahim
African Piano (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 13/Jun/2005 ] Sometimes a musical message is so urgent that questions of recording quality are almost beside the point. Informally recorded in 1969 in a noisy club - Copenhagen's famous Jazzhus Montmartre - the flavour of this album is 'documentary' rather than... |
Abdullah Ibrahim
Solotude (LP) [ Gearbox / LP - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Each year on October 9th, Abdullah Ibrahim performs a solo piano concert at the Hirzinger Hall in South Germany in order to celebrate his birthday. Due to lockdown restrictions last year, this traditional birthday concert was replaced with the... |
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
Afro Futuristic Dreams (LP) [ Strut / 2 LP - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Recorded between San Francisco and London and brought together by the genius of Malcolm Catto at his analogue Quatermass Studio, the new recording represents another bold step in Ackamoor's ever-evolving journey in jazz, adding full, intricate scores... |
Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd
Motor City Scene (LP) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 1/Dec/2017 ] |
Ahmad Jamal
The Awakening (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 14/Apr/2023 ] By 1970, pianist Ahmad Jamal's style had changed a bit since the 1950s, becoming denser and more adventurous while still retaining his musical identity and signature elegance. Jamal's trio - bassist Jamil Nasser (whose double-timing lines are... |
Ahmad Jamal Trio
Ahmad Jamal At The Pershing - But Not For Me (LP) [ WaxTime / LP - released 10/Mar/2023 ] The tapes for this album released in 1958 were made on January 16, 1958, at the Pershing Lounge of Chicago's Pershing Hotel and each set played that night was recorded, a total of 43 tracks, of which 8 were selected by Jamal for the album |
Ahmad Jamal Trio
At the Pershing (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 5/Mar/2012 ] |
