Boundary Pushers: Jazz re:freshed Presents 1000 Kings
Over the past two decades, the London-based Jazz re:freshed organization has played a major role in showcasing some of the best young jazz talent in the region.
Tag: Jazz
London’s Leading Drummer Moses Boyd Releases ‘Displaced Diaspora’
Drummer and producer Moses Boyd is one of the leading and most cutting-edge artists in today’s thriving London jazz scene. Over the past few years, he has performed on some of the best recordings alongside other major players of the UK jazz scene including Nubya Garcia, Oscar Jerome, Joe Armon-Jones, Shabaka Hutchings, Zara MacFarlane, Four Tet, Gilles Peterson, and others.
Bargain Bins #04: Special Brit-Funk Edition
This edition of BeatCaffeine’s Bargain Bins series features five essential 7-inch selections from the Brit-funk scene of the late seventies and early eighties. Through the support of pirate radio and deejays like Chris Hill and Colin Curtis, Brit-funk was an underground music scene that took place in both south and north London.
Two Classic Brit-Funk Atmosfear Records Reissued
The Mr. Bongo label has just reissued Atmosfear’s 1981 jazz-funk classic En Trance, a recording that was a pinnacle release during the height of the early eighties underground Brit-funk scene that predominately took place in North West London.
Takeo Moriyama’s 1983 Japanese Jazz Masterpiece ‘East Plants’
As a part of BBE Music’s ‘J Jazz Masterclass series,’ spawning from the brilliant J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan 1969-1984 compilation that came out earlier in the year, the label has just reissued Takeo Moriyama’s 1983 masterpiece East Plants.
Randy Weston: The Essentials
A few weeks ago on September 1st, pianist, composer, and jazz legend Randy Weston sadly passed at the age of 92. The six-foot seven-inch iconic musician was one of the first to incorporate traditional African-influenced rhythms and instrumentation with jazz melodies.
Brownswood’s Skinny Pelembe Releases New Collaborative EP
Following up on his superb ‘Spit/Swallow’ single earlier in the year, the multi-talented producer Skinny Pelembe has just released a brilliant new EP titled Sleep More, Make More Friends, his second off of Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label.
Bargain Bins #03
This third edition of BeatCaffeine’s Bargain Bins series features three great seventies-era jazz-funk selections that can often be found for five dollars or less.
Electric South African Jazz from MABUTA
Led by bassist, composer, producer, and Cape Town native Shane Cooper, Welcome To The World is the debut release from MABUTA, a collective of incredible musicians from the currently thriving South African jazz scene.
Gondwana Records Celebrates 10 Years with New Spiritual Jazz Series
To help celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Manchester-based Gondwana Records, the label is putting out a collection of limited-edition spiritual jazz releases.
Makaya McCraven – Where We Come From (CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape)
Jazz is not dead, not even close. Not only is it thriving at this moment, the sound is evolving and speaking to a whole new generation of listeners. The evidence couldn’t be more clearer than on Makaya McCraven’s new recording Where We Come From (CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape), which brings together two of the most vibrant scenes in jazz today, Chicago and London.
