Tag: Jazz Funk
In what has been truly an incredible compilation series over the past few years, the good people at the Brighton-based label and record shop have put out the fourth volume of their extremely well-curated and highly-acclaimed Mr Bongo Record Club.
For over the last 20 years, Italian musician and producer Gerardo Frisina has been at the forefront of some of the best jazz dance recordings of this century, blending together jazz melodies with Latin, African, Brazilian, deep house rhythms and more. He returns with quite possibly his most complete album to date in Moving Ahead.
British-Ghanaian soul singer, songwriter, and producer Andrew Ashong joins forces with one of the most innovative and influential UK broken beat artists over the past two decades in keyboardist and producer Kaidi Tatham to release a brilliant new EP, titled Sankofa Season.
Legendary Brazilian jazz-funk and fusion band Azymuth have teamed up with Los Angeles based producers/multi-instrumentalists Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad to release a brilliant new full-length album on the Younge and Muhammad’s Jazz Is Dead label.
One of last year’s biggest surprise (no pun intended) and critically acclaim releases was Surprise Chef’s incredible debut full-length All News Is Good News. Originally released in November on the band’s own College Of Knowledge imprint, the album ended up making it to the top of many “best of” lists. After a reissue of the release by Mr Bongo, the Melbourne group has just released their highly-anticipated follow-up full-length, titled Daylight Savings.
BBE Music’s vinyl-only offshoot imprint ALIM has just released a limited-edition 7inch single featuring two incredible remixes of SunPalace’s 1981 Brit-funk classic “Rude Movements” by Detroit’s Moodymann and Kenny Dope of Masters at Work.
In what has become one of the most highly anticipated compilations of 2020, Blue Note and Decca Records have just released a great new compilation, titled Blue Note Re:imagined, featuring many of the UK’s most breakthrough jazz artists re-working classic material from the Blue Note vaults.
London’s Olindo Records has just released an incredible new album from Raúl Monsalve y Los Forajidos, titled Bichos, that explores futuristic Latin grooves deeply rooted in Afro-Venezuelan rhythms.
Back in May, Uk pianist and saxophonist Laurence Mason had an idea of meshing together two of his biggest musical heroes, Dave Greenfield of the seventies-era proto-punk band The Stranglers with the sixties cool jazz “Take Five” sound of Dave Brubeck. He didn’t think much would come of it at the time, however after posting a demo of this funky soul jazz tribute track to YouTube, titled “Golden Brown”, it immediately blew up and received over a million views, with hundreds of requests for a physical release on vinyl.
London’s cosmic-jazz-meets-psychedelic-funk group The Heliocentrics continue to push their otherworldly sound into new orbits on their second full-length release off of Madlib’s Invazions label.
