Category: FEATURED RELEASES
South London-based composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and virtuosic pianist DoomCannon, who first jumped onto the scene with the group Triforce (featured on the We Out Here compilation and Jazz Re:freshed release TriForce 5ive EP), has recently released his much-anticipated debut album, titled Renaissance, on Gilles Peterson’s label Brownswood Recordings.
Italian-based jazz-funk group Aura Safari, featuring keyboard wiz Alessandro Deledda, producers Nicholas Iammatteo, Lorenzo Lavoratori, Daniele Melloni, Andrea Moretti, and special guest guitarist David Pieralisi, have recently released a superb new 7inch single on the Terrasolare label.
Legendary Michigan-based producer and DJ John Beltran has been at the forefront of techno and ambient electronic music since the mid-1990s. With the launch of his brand new label, All Good Music, Beltran has produced and released a brilliant Brazilian-inspired jazz dance debut by the Detroit collective Sol Set, titled Olá de Novo.
For more than two decades, Gerardo Frisina has been one of the most forward-thinking artists to successfully blur the lines between jazz, house, and Afro-Latin rhythms. The Italian producer returns with an incredible new twelve-inch EP on Schema Records, titled Soul Drum, marking his first release in two years.
On the heels of two essential releases from GeeW (aka Glenn Worthington), legendary jazz and Northern soul UK deejay Colin Curtis presents a brilliant new EP release from London-based producer and keyboardist Tom Funk’s project The Sultan’s Swing.
Following six brilliant re-edit 12″ releases over the last three years focusing on reworked obscure jazz, tropical and Balearic gems, Spanish producer Riccio under the alias Jazz N Palms has moved to the Mediterranean island of Ibiza and released the first full-length album on Jazz N Palms Recordings, titled Ses Rodes.
Two of London’s groundbreaking producers, Don Pascal (Afro Atlantic/Vintage Sounds broadcasts) and Tom Funk (aka The Sultan’s Swing), team up with an incredible trio of special guests in saxophonist/flautist Tamar Osborn, drummer Myele Manzanza, and percussionist Ozan Nidayi (of Natural Lateral) on a superb limited-edition 7inch release, September Sun.
London’s Soul Bank Music is releasing a much-anticipated 2xLP live concert recording featuring electronic jazz and broken beat pioneer and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive-Lowe and a superb cast of LA’s most creative musicians, performing a tribute to spiritual jazz living legend Pharoah Sanders.
Following the success of recent limited-edition 7inch singles “Cosmica Italiana” (2020) and “Acqua” (2022), Italian DJ, producer and musician Lorenzo Morresi and UK producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and 22a label boss, Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne will release their highly-anticipated full-length album, also titled Cosmica Italiana.
Legendary UK jazz and Northern soul DJ Colin Curtis has recently launched his own imprint label, and released two superb debut jazz dance EPs from UK-based producer and percussionist Glenn Worthington aka Gee W.
