Tag: Jazz Fusion
Listen back to Saturday, May 30th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast celebrates Miles Davis at 100, along with Sun Ra and Marshall Allen’s birthdays, and includes jazz dance classics Pharoah Sanders, Bobby McFerrin, Lonnie Sattin, Bishop Norman Williams and much more.
Catching up on a number of standout releases from the past few weeks, here are the latest BeatCaffeine Record Rundown selections. Highlights include the brilliant new Domanda Music album from Italian bassist-composer Rosa Brunello, the return of trumpeter Malcolm Strachan with an impressive new recording, Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs’ highly anticipated full-length under the Tema Due alias, and the warm summer sounds of Italian Balearic crew Banda Maje.
Listen back to Saturday, May 16th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included jazz dance gems by Pharoah Sanders, Harold Ousley, and Richie Cole, funky Latin cuts from Eddie Palmieri and Bobby Matos, new music from Nicola Conte, Melohman and Paco Colombas, and much more!
BBE Music’s J Jazz series concludes with its fifth and final volume in early 2026, bringing a celebrated archival project to a powerful conclusion. Since 2018, the series has shone a global spotlight on Japan’s golden era of jazz (late ’60s–’80s), revealing a deep well of innovation and rare recordings that reshaped international appreciation for the scene.
Listen back to Saturday, May 2nd BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included jazz dance classics by Chick Corea, Airto Moreira, and Raices, along with music from The Heliocentrics with Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott (“If they push that button!”), Da Lata, Chris Bangs’ Nova Vida, new music from Melohman and Paco Columbas, and much more!
This week’s BeatCaffeine Record Rundown spotlights a brilliant new album from Ontario’s Atlantis Jazz Ensemble, the latest EP from Brian Jackson and Masters at Work, and striking debut releases from two boundary-pushing duos: Brazilian drummers Antonio Neves and Thiaguinho Silva, and London’s experimental Ethio-jazz outfit ZENA.
Listen back to this past Saturday, March 21st BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included jazz dance classics from Monty Alexander, The Quartette Trés Bien, Jorge Dalto, and Tito Puente, along with music from “nu jazz” pioneers The Five Corners Quintet and much more!
Listen back to this past Saturday, January 10th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included some jazz dance selections by Dr. Lonnie Smith, Bernie Senensky Trio, Boy Katindig, Igor Bril, and George Benson, music from the new Jazz Room Records release 7inch from 45 Trio, tracks by Grupo Um, Lucinha Bastos and much more.
Brazilian fusion pioneers Grupo Um, whom made their mark performing in Hermeto Pascoal’s mid-1970s São Paulo collective, mark their 50th anniversary with a previously unreleased album on Far Out Recordings, titled Nineteen Seventy Seven, named for the year it was recorded.
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.
Listen back to this past Saturday, January 10th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton — first show of 2026! The broadcast included some selections that I recently picked-up in London, including the new Isao Suzuki reissue from Jazz Room Records, music by Stone Alliance, Duke Pearson, Sahib Shihab, Freddie McCoy, The Danish Jazzballet Society Ensemble, Joanne Grauer (a salute Dingwalls!) and much more.
As with the new music releases of 2025, many incredible reissues and previously unreleased recordings emerged throughout the year. The recordings unearthed each year continue to amaze. As mentioned in past years, the quality of these reissue releases seems to keep improving over time.
Similar to past years, narrowing down this list was probably the most challenging task among all the year-end lists (sorry, I always forget a few worthy titles). For this list, the focus is mostly on full-length reissues, though a few standout 7-inch selections are included.
Listen back to this past Saturday, November 29th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included a selections by The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble, Marco Di Marco, and Sacbé, jazz dance classics from Mongo Santamaria, Carlos Garnett, and Bhakti Jazz, standout nu jazz cuts by Gerardo Frisina, Elements of Life and much more!
