Category: FEATURED RELEASES
Legendary UK-based DJ Paul Murphy and his label Jazz Room Records has recently released a brilliant new compilation featuring fresh new renditions of notable jazz dancefloor staples, appropriately titled Jazz Room Presents: Covers.
Pioneering Japanese-based DJ and music producer Shuya Okino returns with a brilliant new three-track EP from his Kyoto Jazz Sextet, titled Dosojin No Uta. This full-scale jazz-focused group formed back in 2015 in celebration of his groundbreaking project, Kyoto Jazz Massive.
For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the new incredible genre-defying album from London’s Kokoroko, two brilliant EPs from Buenos Aires-based DFRA Experience Jazz Band and Brazilian pianist Michel Cury (released on Colin Curtis Presents), and the most recent full-length from Leeds-based Ethio-jazz inspired quartet, The Sorcerers.
New Zealand jazz collective The Circling Sun, whom is made up of record collectors, music producers and DJs including bandleader Julien Dyne, follow-up their breakthrough debut Spirits, which was named ‘2023 BeatCaffeine Album of the Year‘ with their highly-anticipated sophomore full-length on Soundway Records, titled Orbits.
For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the latest 7inch from Paul Murphy’s Jazz Room Records featuring Southern California’s Cozmos quintet, Rainer Trüby and Miche’s compilation celebrating the groundbreaking German jazz label Nabel Records, the new cosmic album from UK keyboard wiz Greg Foat and vocalist Forest Law, and Sampology’s brilliant new EP release.
For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the remarkable Marc Decho EP for Colin Curtis’s label, the debut 12inch by the new duo project from Italian producers Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs, Right Tempo’s compilation highlighting the golden era of jazz-infused house music, and a superb lo-fi jazz recording by Netherlands-based multi-instrumentalist Ruben Drenth dedicated to the Bonsaika.
Over the span of two decades, London’s Jazzman Records’ remarkable Spiritual Jazz compilation series has been uncovering and celebrating deep, esoteric jazz from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, with each volume often focusing on a different region, theme, or influential label. For its latest installment, Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain, the label ventures deeper than ever into the hidden world of Cold War-era jazz from the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe.
Tons of great releases over the last several weeks. For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the highly-anticipated new album from legendary Brazilian jazz fusion trio Azymuth, the third and final chapter of their cosmic album trilogy from the seventies-era inspired jazz-funk quintet Aldorande, the brilliant debut album from rising star jazz vocalist Tyreek McDole, and a massive vocal jazz dance 7inch from the Super Disco Edits label.
This week’s BeatCaffeine’s weekly record rundown features the latest offering from Italian producer and “nu jazz” pioneer Gerardo Frisina, the funky latin jazz dance recording from the Romero Bros, Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari cosmic excursion into ancient astrology and spiritualism, and the brilliant and highly meditative new full-length on Gondwana Records from California’s Phi-Psonics.
Legendary UK DJ, producer and acid jazz pioneer Chris Bangs has just released an incredible new compilation for Ace Records, titled The Playbox, which is essentially his love letter to the jazz dancefloor featuring signature 70s era jazz funk and jazz dance classics.
Melbourne-rooted London-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Don Glori returns with his most eclectic and adventurous album to date, and first for the UK-based Mr. Bongo label, titled Paper Can’t Wrap Fire.
Following the release of last year’s superb 12inch for the Space Grapes label, and before that, their breakthrough 2022 debut recording Trasforma, the Italian jazz-funk trio Collettivo Immaginario returns with their highly-anticipated sophomore release for Domanda Music, titled Oltreoceano.
Catching up on some recent standout releases, here is BeatCaffeine’s weekly record rundown (just a few days late) featuring the latest by Melbourne-based “future-jazz” collective Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, Emma-Jean Thackray’s highly personal and eclectic album Weirdo, Italian saxophone great Emanuele Cisi’s brilliant new offering on the Right Tempo label, and Ten Lovers Music latest Best of Various EP.
