Tag: Jazz Dance
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.
Listen back to this past Saturday, June 14th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included the new Cozmos 7″ from Jazz Room Record, jazz dance classics from Opa, Azar Lawrence, Webster Lewis and Papaya, “nu jazz” gems by Povo, Nicola Conte and more!
Listen back to this past Saturday, May 31st BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast celebrated the late Sun Ra and the Arkestra’s longtime music director Marshall Allen, who recently both had birthdays, and also included selections from Chris Bang’s new compilation Playbox, jazz dance classics from Cedar Walton, Don Cunningham, and Raul De Souza, new released remix from Joaquin “Joe” Claussell of Daymé Arocena’s Yambu’, a brilliant track from Ten Lovers Music’s latest Best Of Various and more!
Legendary UK DJ, producer and acid jazz pioneer Chris Bangs has just released an incredible new compilation for Ace Records, titled The Playbox, which is essentially his love letter to the jazz dancefloor featuring signature 70s era jazz funk and jazz dance classics.
Listen back to this past Saturday, May 17th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast celebrates the late legendary vocalist Andy Bey, who sadly passed away recently, and also includes a number of jazz dance classics from Idris Muhammad, Norman Connors, selections from Chris Bang’s new compilation Playbox, new tracks out of Italy from Emanuele Cisi, Gerardo Frisina and Collettivo Immaginario, the latest from Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange and more!
Following the release of last year’s superb 12inch for the Space Grapes label, and before that, their breakthrough 2022 debut recording Trasforma, the Italian jazz-funk trio Collettivo Immaginario returns with their highly-anticipated sophomore release for Domanda Music, titled Oltreoceano.
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.
