Tag: Jazz Funk
Australian-born, New York-based composer and pianist Barney McAll, who has made his mark playing along side Gary Bartz, Billy Harper, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesely, Dewey Redman, and so many others, has released a brilliant new uplifting cosmic soul-jazz album on his Extra Celestial Arts label, titled Precious Energy.
For the latest release of Jean-Claude Thompson’s fantastic If Music Presents You Need This compilation series on BBE, he turns his focus to Dutch record shop Klinkhamer Records and invites owner Michel Veenstra to compile some of his most notable “holy grails” that have come through the shop.
Following five superb releases last year, German DJ/producer tag team Delfonic and Kapote return for their sixth volume of their Illegal Jazz series, featuring jazz-funk edits aimed at the dancefloor.
Paris-based composer, bandleader and tenor saxophonist Laurent Bardainne returns with his quintet project Tigre d’eau Douce, following the group’s impressive 2020 debut Love Is Everywhere, with a brilliant new cosmic jazz album on Heavenly Sweetness, titled Hymne au Soleil.
Two of London’s most forward-thinking artists in vocalist Fatima and keyboard wiz Joe Armon-Jones (who is also a founding member of Ezra Collective) have teamed up to release an incredible new EP, titled Tinted Shades.
Featuring an expanded two-part 2xLP record release, legendary UK deejay Colin Curtis presents his highly-anticipated third volume of his incredible Jazz Dance Fusion compilation series on Z Records.
South London-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Neue Grafik follows-up his breakthrough 2019 Foulden Road release on the Total Refreshment Centre label with Foulden Road Part II, an equally brilliant EP that speaks to racial injustices and the global pandemic.
Following the success of 2020’s Cosmica Italiana single, Italian DJ, producer and musician Lorenzo Morresi teams up again with producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and 22a label boss, Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne on another brilliant new cosmic jazz 7inch single release, titled Acqua.
Brazilian pianist Erik Escobar has released a superb new jazz funk/fusion EP with bassist Michael Pipoquinhal and drummer/percussionist Miguel Assis on Steve Conry and Cziz Hall’s Ten Lovers Music label, appropriately titled New Brazilian Trio EP.
Portugal-based Mad About Records, who consistently re-release some of the rarest recordings known, are reissuing the highly-obscure 1975 spiritual jazz-funk masterpiece Wind Of Change by trumpeter Jothan Callins and his superb group, known as The Sounds Of Togetherness.
