Tag: Jazz Dance
For this week’s BeatCaffeine Record Rundown (it was a massive week for new music!), we highlight new full-length albums from both saxophonist and flautist Chip Wickham and keyboardist and producer Yoni Mayraz, along with the latest EP from UK-based The Earthsouls on Colin Curtis Presents, and the must-own 7inch by Orchestra Mambo International on Echo Chamber Recordings.
For this week’s BeatCaffeine Record Rundown, we highlight a few notable releases that came out over the summer, including the new acoustic piano trio album from Greg Foat, Jihad Darwish, and Moses Boyd, plus highly recommended jazz dancefloor 7inch heaters from Central, Shuya Okino, MonsieurWilly and Natalie Nova.
Listen back to this past Saturday, August 23rd BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included the new music from Kyoto Jazz Sextet, Michel Cury, Lance Ferguson, The Circling Sun, the incredible new Jazz Room Records compilation ‘Covers’, tribute to Eddie Palmieri(RIP) and more!
Soul Stirrin’ is a new compilation from the Italian label Right Tempo/Mono Jazz, curated by label boss Rocco Pandiani and Art Director Giulio “Jazzy Jules” Maini. This release serves as the launch of their The Jazz Sinners series which showcases seductive and thrilling jazz cuts from the 1950s and early 1960s.
Legendary UK-based DJ Paul Murphy and his label Jazz Room Records has recently released a brilliant new compilation featuring fresh new renditions of notable jazz dancefloor staples, appropriately titled Jazz Room Presents: Covers.
Listen back to this past Saturday, August 9th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included the new music from DFRA Experience Jazz Band and Casbah 73, jazz dance classics from Cal Tjader, Willie Bobo, Janet Lawson, and Obrador, and cosmic grooves from Sun Ra Arkestra, Estrada Orchestra and more!
Pioneering Japanese-based DJ and music producer Shuya Okino returns with a brilliant new three-track EP from his Kyoto Jazz Sextet, titled Dosojin No Uta. This full-scale jazz-focused group formed back in 2015 in celebration of his groundbreaking project, Kyoto Jazz Massive.
Listen back to this past Saturday, July 26th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included the new music from The Circling Sun, The Sultan’s Swing, and Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs’ latest Tema Due project, jazz dance classics from Cal Tjader, Quartette Trés Bien, and Duke Pearson, a great rendition from Emanative and Ahmed Abdullah of Sun Ra’s Love In Outer Space, nu jazz grooves from Da Lata, Gerardo Frisina and more!
For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the new incredible genre-defying album from London’s Kokoroko, two brilliant EPs from Buenos Aires-based DFRA Experience Jazz Band and Brazilian pianist Michel Cury (released on Colin Curtis Presents), and the most recent full-length from Leeds-based Ethio-jazz inspired quartet, The Sorcerers.
Listen back to this past Saturday, July 12th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included the new music from Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs’ latest Tema Due project, jazz dance classics from Flora Purim and Johnny Hammond, jazz-funk gems by Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin(RIP) and Walter Branco, nu jazz grooves from Koop, Gerardo Frisina and more!
For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the latest 7inch from Paul Murphy’s Jazz Room Records featuring Southern California’s Cozmos quintet, Rainer Trüby and Miche’s compilation celebrating the groundbreaking German jazz label Nabel Records, the new cosmic album from UK keyboard wiz Greg Foat and vocalist Forest Law, and Sampology’s brilliant new EP release.
Listen back to this past Saturday, June 28th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included the new music from Azymuth and Collettivo Immaginario, jazz dance classics from Dave Pike, Patsy Gallant, and Roger Glenn, Brazilian gems by Dom Um Romao and Jorge Autuori , summer-inspired grooves from Lonnie Liston Smith, Greg Foat and more!
For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the remarkable Marc Decho EP for Colin Curtis’s label, the debut 12inch by the new duo project from Italian producers Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs, Right Tempo’s compilation highlighting the golden era of jazz-infused house music, and a superb lo-fi jazz recording by Netherlands-based multi-instrumentalist Ruben Drenth dedicated to the Bonsaika.
