Category: FEATURED RELEASES
London-based composer and bassist Daniel Casimir, who has been making a strong name for himself over the past few years performing alongside some of the most notable artists among the scene like Joe Armon-Jones, Nubya Garcia, Oscar Jerome, Ashley Henry, Binker Golding and others, has just released his debut album as a bandleader, titled Boxed In on the Jazz re:freshed label.
Earlier in the year, Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker teamed up to release an incredible 23-track compilation exploring the fusion of jazz, funk, Brazilian, Tropicalia, and disco with Latin and Salsa that emerged in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s, titled Cuba: Music And Revolution — Culture Clash In Havana Cuba: Experiments In Latin Music 1975-85. With much more music to dive into from this era, London’s Soul Jazz Records has just released volume 2 of this essential series.
Sacred Rhythm Music, which is a pioneering label run by the legendary Joaquin “Joe” Claussell, has just released a superb posthumous EP release, titled Grace, by the late great New York house DJ and producer Carlos Sanchez featuring crossover vocal greats Gregory Porter, Bobby McFerrin, and Kenny Lattimore.
Following up on the group’s 2017 breakthrough EP Yellow Ochre, the cosmic jazz London-based Vels Trio, featuring keyboardist Jack Stephenson-Oliver, bassist Cameron Dawson, and drummer Dougal Taylor have just released their highly-anticipated full-length album Celestial Greens on the Rhythm Section International label.
Producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and 22a label boss, Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne continues to make his mark as one of the most pioneering musicians of our time, through his explorations of jazz, house, electronic music, and Hindustani classical. After a series of remarkable albums that have individually focused on those sounds, the London-based artist has brought all those elements and influences together on a brilliant new album, titled Still Flute.
Saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia has been among one of the groundbreaking artists at the forefront of London’s thriving jazz scene. Her critically-acclaimed 2020 debut full-length album SOURCE was at the top of many “best of” lists (including BeatCaffeine’s Favorite Albums of 2020), and was recently nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. With the help of some of today’s most forward-thinking artists, the album gets the full on remix treatment on a brand new release, titled SOURCE ⧺ WE MOVE.
As we enter the cooler Fall/Winter months, iconic DJ Paul Murphy and his Jazz Room Records label continue to bring the heat with a very welcomed reissue of Tata Vasquez’s extremely rare New York-style Latin jazz dance floor masterpiece, titled Ecstasy.
Highly innovative London-based singer, songwriter, producer, and DJ, Adam Scrimshire, who is also one of the minds behind both Wah Wah 45s and the Albert’s Favourites labels, returns with an incredible new atmospheric and deeply meditative full-length album, titled Nothing Feels Like Everything.
Italian-based percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Gabriele Poso follows up his 2019 breakthrough album Batik (Soundway) with a brilliant new uptempo Latin percussion dance full-length on New York’s Wonderwheel Recordings, titled Tamburo Infinito.
Being based in the Bay Area in Northern California, I’ve been hearing some buzzing locally over the last several years about a rising young teenage pianist and producer known as Telemakus. Over the last couple of years, the now 19-year-old self-taught musician’s acclaim has quickly grown well beyond the South Bay, which is where he grew up, receiving strong notable praise from the likes of Flying Lotus, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Tommaso Cappellato, Música Macondo label, Music Is My Sanctuary, and others. He has now released his much-anticipated full-length album on the German-based label Radio Juicy, titled The New Heritage.
The German-based Analog Africa has just unearthed a collection of incredible DIY seventies recordings from an adventist church in Cameroon’s capital city of Yaoundé, and released them together on an essential new compilation, titled Cameroon Garage Funk.
Bristolian cosmic jazz duo Run Logan Run, which features drummer Matt Brown and Neil Hayes on saxophone and electronics, has teamed up with producer Riaan Vosloo from Nostalgia 77 to release an incredible new album, titled For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers on the superb Bristol label Worm Discs.
Highly innovative Los Angeles-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive-Lowe, who is always blurring the lines between jazz, broken beat, and experimental electronic-influenced music, has just released volume two of his new and brilliant Midnight Snacks Ep series.
