Tag: Jazz Dance
Highly-influential UK-based DJ, compilation curator, producer, and radio presenter Kev Beadle has just reissued a selection of essential tracks from Jan Tober and Ron Satterfield’s extremely obscure 1975 vocal jazz masterpiece As Long As There’s Music.
Acid Jazz has released an official reissue of Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim’s highly obscure 1988 Latin jazz dance full-length Harlem featuring The Times at Hand Orchestra. Known for his 1972 classic album Total Submission for Cobblestone/Muse, this later recording, which is equally brilliant, is often overlooked.
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.
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.
London-based Jazz Room Records, which is run by legendary jazz DJ Paul Murphy, continues it’s onslaught of “must-have” releases in 2021, with a very welcomed reissue of The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble’s highly obscure 1987 spiritual soul-jazz masterpiece Le – Le.
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.
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.
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.
Earlier in the year, two legendary artists in producer, DJ, and radio broadcaster Gilles Peterson and multi-instrumentalist Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick teamed under the name STR4TA to release one of the most groundbreaking records of 2021. This incredible full-length album, titled Aspects, has helped shine a bright light on the Brit-funk sound of the late 70s and early 80s. Fast forward a number of months later, producer and Z Records label boss Dave Lee, who is a legend in his own right, has remixed one of the many standout tracks in “After The Rain”, which is out now on a 12inch single via Brownswood.
