Record Shopping Etiquette
The do’s, the don’ts, and best practices when it comes to shopping for vinyl.
Los Angeles producer and keyboardist John Carroll Kirby returns with cosmic LP ‘Dance Ancestral’
Los Angeles-based composer, producer, and pianist John Carroll Kirby teams up with Canadian producer, composer, DJ and sound artist Yu Su (Ninja Tune) on an incredible new cosmic groove-oriented album on the Stones Throw label, titled Dance Ancestral.
London’s Afrobeat collective Kokoroko release their highly-anticipated full-length ‘Could We Be More’
Following the release of both their breakthrough 2019 self-titled debut EP, and last year’s standout double A-side 12″ single Baba Ayoola / Carry Me Home, the London 8-piece collective Kokoroko, led by trumpeter and vocalist Sheila Maurice-Grey, returns with their highly-anticipated full length album on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings, titled Could We Be More.
‘Hidden Waters’ compilation celebrates the last decade of music from Rio de Janeiro
The city of Rio de Janeiro has a long well-documented history of producing some of the greatest Brazilian artists from the past century including legends like Marcos Valle, Arthur Verocai, Azymuth, Sérgio Mendes, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Jorge Ben Jor, Tim Maia, Joyce Moreno and countless others. Over the past decade, the region has had a strong resurgence of new artists presenting a more left-field take on bossa nova, samba, jazz and funk. The Sounds and Colours label celebrates these groundbreaking artists on a recently released compilation, titled Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro.
Broken Beat pioneer great Kaidi Tatham returns with 4th full-length album ‘Don’t Rush The Process’
Legendary Belfast-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Kaidi Tatham, who has been a pioneer among both the Broken Beat and UK jazz scenes for decades, returns for his fourth solo album under his own name, titled Don’t Rush The Process.
UK composer & pianist Greg Foat returns with cosmic meditative soundscape album ‘Photosynthesis’
It’s safe to say that if we’ve learned anything over the last decade when it comes to Greg Foat, who has established himself as one of the most forward-thinking composers and pianists, is that you can “box him in” musically. It seems like each release has it’s own concept or identity, and that is certainly the case on his latest solo effort, titled Photosynthesis, which trades in jazz-funk grooves for meditative soundscapes.
Brownswood releases stellar debut from South-London virtuoso pianist DoomCannon
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.
Jazz Room Records reissues massive Latin jazz album ‘Denga’ from Robin Jones Quintet
Legendary London DJ Paul Murphy and his label Jazz Room Records continue to turn up the heat this summer with another essential in-demand dancefloor gem in Robin Jones Quintet’s 1971 Latin cooker Denga.
Perfect.Toy Records reissues rare 1980 adventurous vocal jazz album from Munich group Bhakti Jazz
German-based Perfect.Toy Records, who just recently re-released Bobby Cole’s 1967 A Point of View LP, has officially reissued another incredible rare vocal jazz album, First Step by the Munich-based group Bhakti Jazz.
Italian jazz-funk group Aura Safari release superb new 7inch single on Terrasolare
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.
Producer John Beltran & Detroit collective Sol Set release Brazilian-inspired jazz dance debut
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.
