Tag: Jazz Funk
This year’s first edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we highlight the much-anticipated new album from Chris Bangs and Mick Talbot, Japan’s 45 Trio and their new Jazz Room Records 7inch celebrating Brazilian piano great Tenorio Jr., in addition to a couple “must-own” releases that came out near the end of last year from Lance Ferguson and Louie Vega’s Elements of Life.
The superb New York-based Frederiksberg Records has unearthed and recently reissued an extremely hard-to-find mid-70’s spiritual jazz album from the Oakland ensemble The People’s People, titled The People’s People Present The Spirit Of David.
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.
Detroit’s Funk Night Records has recently reissued the incredible self-tilted debut from Estonian-based quintet Estrada Orchestra, which marks the record’s 10th anniversary.
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.
Tons of great releases over the last several weeks. For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the highly-anticipated new album from legendary Brazilian jazz fusion trio Azymuth, the third and final chapter of their cosmic album trilogy from the seventies-era inspired jazz-funk quintet Aldorande, the brilliant debut album from rising star jazz vocalist Tyreek McDole, and a massive vocal jazz dance 7inch from the Super Disco Edits label.
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.
German-based Tramp Records, who have been one of the leading labels over the past two decades when it comes to unearthing some of the rarest funk, soul and jazz recordings, has just put out a previously never-released-before album from the Stuttgart-based jazz fusion combo Baobab.
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.
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.
