Tag: Jazz
German-based Perfect.Toy Records, who just recently re-released Bobby Cole’s 1967 A Point of View LP, has officially reissued another incredible rare vocal jazz album, First Step by the Munich-based group Bhakti Jazz.
Two of London’s groundbreaking producers, Don Pascal (Afro Atlantic/Vintage Sounds broadcasts) and Tom Funk (aka The Sultan’s Swing), team up with an incredible trio of special guests in saxophonist/flautist Tamar Osborn, drummer Myele Manzanza, and percussionist Ozan Nidayi (of Natural Lateral) on a superb limited-edition 7inch release, September Sun.
London’s Soul Bank Music is releasing a much-anticipated 2xLP live concert recording featuring electronic jazz and broken beat pioneer and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive-Lowe and a superb cast of LA’s most creative musicians, performing a tribute to spiritual jazz living legend Pharoah Sanders.
Following the success of recent limited-edition 7inch singles “Cosmica Italiana” (2020) and “Acqua” (2022), Italian DJ, producer and musician Lorenzo Morresi and UK producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and 22a label boss, Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne will release their highly-anticipated full-length album, also titled Cosmica Italiana.
German-based label Perfect.Toy Records has recently officially reissued one of the greatest vocal jazz recordings of our time in Bobby Cole’s highly obscure 1967 album A Point Of View.
The second wave of collaborative Jazz Is Dead releases from masterminds Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad kicks off with the first album in over 20 years from the great jazz, gospel, and soul vocalist Jean Carne.
Throughout the seventies and into the early eighties, jazz-funk legend Brian Jackson collaborated with the late great Gil Scott-Heron on some of the most forward-thinking and socially conscious music of our time, releasing tracks like “The Bottle”, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, “Johannesburg” and numerous others. Following up on last year’s collaborative effort with Jazz Is Dead, Jackson returns with his first solo album in over 20 years, titled This Is Brian Jackson on BBE.
Welsh harpist Amanda Whiting follows up last year’s incredible breakthrough debut After Dark (which made BeatCaffeine’s 2021 Favorite Albums of the Year) with another superb album, titled Lost in Abstraction, on Jazzman Records.
Legendary UK jazz DJ Paul Murphy and his Jazz Room Records label continues it’s unearthing of jazz dance gems with the recent reissue release of Youngstown, Ohio’s Tony Lavorgna and The St. Thomas Quartet’s 1982 soul jazz album Chameleon.
Glasgow’s highly-talented Nimbus Sextet follow-ups their impressive breakthrough debut Dreams Fulfilled, with a superb sophomore release on the Acid Jazz label, appropriately titled Forward Thinker.
