Category: FEATURED RELEASES
Featuring an expanded two-part 2xLP record release, legendary UK deejay Colin Curtis presents his highly-anticipated third volume of his incredible Jazz Dance Fusion compilation series on Z Records.
French label Favorite Recordings has recently released an incredible new 12inch spaced-out dancefloor heater from producer Björn Wagner’s latest project Magic Source. Known as the mind behind both the Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band and The Mighty Mocambos, this brilliant feel-good single explores the more unusual facets of left-field disco.
South London-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Neue Grafik follows-up his breakthrough 2019 Foulden Road release on the Total Refreshment Centre label with Foulden Road Part II, an equally brilliant EP that speaks to racial injustices and the global pandemic.
Following the success of 2020’s Cosmica Italiana single, Italian DJ, producer and musician Lorenzo Morresi teams up again with producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and 22a label boss, Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne on another brilliant new cosmic jazz 7inch single release, titled Acqua.
Brazilian pianist Erik Escobar has released a superb new jazz funk/fusion EP with bassist Michael Pipoquinhal and drummer/percussionist Miguel Assis on Steve Conry and Cziz Hall’s Ten Lovers Music label, appropriately titled New Brazilian Trio EP.
Bristol-based saxophonist Claude Cooper has just released one of the early contenders for “Best Album of The Year” in his psychedelic jazz groove oriented debut full-length, titled Myraid Sounds on Friendly Recordings.
One of London’s most forward-thinking artists and trumpeters, Nick Walters, returns with an incredible new experimental cosmic jazz album, titled Singularity, which is built around audio samples recorded by NASA in space.
Lance Ferguson, who is a producer, guitarist, DJ, and bandleader of the Melbourne-based funk outfit The Bamboos, returns with volume two of his brilliant Rare Groove Spectrum series, featuring live band re-edits of essential jazz-funk rarities, balearic gems, Latin groovers and everything in-between.
Legendary Chicago-based multi-percussionist, bandleader, vocalist, composer, and educator Kahil El’Zabar follows-up two essential albums for London’s Spiritmuse Records, in Be Known Ancient/Future/Music and America The Beautiful, with another brilliant full-length on the label, titled A Time For Healing.
UK’s Mr Bongo label has recently released a remarkable new 7inch, featuring a brilliant new rendition of Minoru Muraoka’s Japanese folkloric-rooted breakbeat classic “The Positive and the Negative” by cinematic instrumental soul band Surprise Chef. If that wasn’t enough, the double A-side single also includes a Mr Bongo edit of the original gem.
Paris born, Los Angeles-based producer David Zylberman, who is also the keyboardist in Egyptian Lover’s spaced out synth-funk backing band, has released a brilliant new single, under the alias Ghost, featuring instrumental electro jazz-funk renditions of two seminal classics in Lonnie Liston Smith’s “Expansions” and Roy Ayers “Everybody Loves The Sunshine”.
Composer, pianist and producer Jamael Dean, who is one the standout young artists among the Los Angeles jazz scene, has recently released an incredible new debut album, titled Primordial Water, on Stones Throw Records.
The production tag team The Magic Twins, made up of Shiho and Yuhiro, have put together two phenomenal new jazz dance re-edits for a debut release on the UK’s Basic Fingers label.
