Tag: Jazz Dance
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.
Listen back to this past Saturday, May 3rd BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast includes a number of jazz dance classics from Chick Corea, Jack McDuff, and War, funky Brazilian selections from Sérgio Mendes and Dom Um Romao, new tracks from Azymuth, The Sultan’s Swing, Takumi Moriya Black Nation and more!
Paul Murphy’s Jazz Room Records follows up last year’s massive 7inch release of Takumi Moriya Black Nation’s take on Joe McPhee’s “Shakey Jake” with a new 10inch single from the Japanese producer and bassist featuring his brilliant new rendition of Terumasa Hino’s 1981 jazz dance classic “Merry Go Round”.
Over the last several years, legendary UK jazz dance and soul DJ, and now radio broadcaster, Colin Curtis has been releasing a slew of superb EPs under his Colin Curtis Presents imprint. For his first release of 2025, he puts out the much anticipated new recording from multi-instrumentalist and producer Tom Funk‘s cosmic jazz-fusion project The Sultan’s Swing.
Listen back to this past Saturday, April 19th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast includes a number of jazz dance classics from Jeff Lorber Fusion, Mark Murphy, Wayne Henderson, Sonny Fortune, Seawind and Kamal Abdul Alim, Brazilian flavored selections from Valeria Lobao and Bill Summers, “nu jazz” gems by Jazz N Palms, Trüby Trio, one of my all-time favorite tracks “Take Vibe” from Golden Brown and more!
Listen back to this past Saturday, April 5th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast includes a number of jazz dance classics from Gábor Szabó, Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ted Curson, Brazilian flavored selections from Tamba 4, Cal Tjader and Charlie Byrd, “nu jazz” gems by Joyce Elaine Yuille, Gerardo Frisina, Malena Pérez and much more!
This week’s BeatCaffeine Weekly Record Rundown includes the highly anticipated new album from Italian “nu jazz” pioneer Gerardo Frisina, the latest balearic jazz-funk 7inch single from Jazz N Palms, Nat Birchall’s brilliant new dub offering, and the incredible debut album from UK-based group Knats.
London’s Far Out Recordings has unearthed and released a previously lost 1978 session featuring legendary Brazilian drummer Edison Machado and his incredible, yet short-lived sextet ensemble, Boa Nova.
Listen back to this past Saturday, March 22nd BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast includes a tribute to the late great soul-jazz legend Roy Ayers, as well as a number of jazz dance classics from Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Southern Energy Ensemble, Airto & Flora Purim, and Jon Hendricks, new tracks from Marcello Cassanelli, The Lewis Express & Chip Wickham, the forthcoming reissue by Frederiksberg Records of Margeeah and much more!
This week’s BeatCaffeine Weekly Record Rundown includes the incredible soul-jazz collaboration between The Lewis Express and flautist Chip Wickham, the latest offering from forward-thinking British-Bahrani trumpeter Yazz Ahmed, a beautifully lush album from North Carolina trio Okonski, and the fifth volume of legendary producer and DJ John Beltran’s must-buy-them-all Back to Bahia series.
