Tag: Jazz
Listen back to this past Saturday, June 28th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included the new music from Azymuth and Collettivo Immaginario, jazz dance classics from Dave Pike, Patsy Gallant, and Roger Glenn, Brazilian gems by Dom Um Romao and Jorge Autuori , summer-inspired grooves from Lonnie Liston Smith, Greg Foat and more!
For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the remarkable Marc Decho EP for Colin Curtis’s label, the debut 12inch by the new duo project from Italian producers Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs, Right Tempo’s compilation highlighting the golden era of jazz-infused house music, and a superb lo-fi jazz recording by Netherlands-based multi-instrumentalist Ruben Drenth dedicated to the Bonsaika.
Listen back to this past Saturday, June 14th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included the new Cozmos 7″ from Jazz Room Record, jazz dance classics from Opa, Azar Lawrence, Webster Lewis and Papaya, “nu jazz” gems by Povo, Nicola Conte and more!
Over the span of two decades, London’s Jazzman Records’ remarkable Spiritual Jazz compilation series has been uncovering and celebrating deep, esoteric jazz from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, with each volume often focusing on a different region, theme, or influential label. For its latest installment, Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain, the label ventures deeper than ever into the hidden world of Cold War-era jazz from the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe.
Tons of great releases over the last several weeks. For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we dive into the highly-anticipated new album from legendary Brazilian jazz fusion trio Azymuth, the third and final chapter of their cosmic album trilogy from the seventies-era inspired jazz-funk quintet Aldorande, the brilliant debut album from rising star jazz vocalist Tyreek McDole, and a massive vocal jazz dance 7inch from the Super Disco Edits label.
Listen back to this past Saturday, May 31st BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast celebrated the late Sun Ra and the Arkestra’s longtime music director Marshall Allen, who recently both had birthdays, and also included selections from Chris Bang’s new compilation Playbox, jazz dance classics from Cedar Walton, Don Cunningham, and Raul De Souza, new released remix from Joaquin “Joe” Claussell of Daymé Arocena’s Yambu’, a brilliant track from Ten Lovers Music’s latest Best Of Various and more!
Legendary UK DJ, producer and acid jazz pioneer Chris Bangs has just released an incredible new compilation for Ace Records, titled The Playbox, which is essentially his love letter to the jazz dancefloor featuring signature 70s era jazz funk and jazz dance classics.
German-based Tramp Records, who have been one of the leading labels over the past two decades when it comes to unearthing some of the rarest funk, soul and jazz recordings, has just put out a previously never-released-before album from the Stuttgart-based jazz fusion combo Baobab.
Listen back to this past Saturday, May 17th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast celebrates the late legendary vocalist Andy Bey, who sadly passed away recently, and also includes a number of jazz dance classics from Idris Muhammad, Norman Connors, selections from Chris Bang’s new compilation Playbox, new tracks out of Italy from Emanuele Cisi, Gerardo Frisina and Collettivo Immaginario, the latest from Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange and more!
Following the release of last year’s superb 12inch for the Space Grapes label, and before that, their breakthrough 2022 debut recording Trasforma, the Italian jazz-funk trio Collettivo Immaginario returns with their highly-anticipated sophomore release for Domanda Music, titled Oltreoceano.
Catching up on some recent standout releases, here is BeatCaffeine’s weekly record rundown (just a few days late) featuring the latest by Melbourne-based “future-jazz” collective Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, Emma-Jean Thackray’s highly personal and eclectic album Weirdo, Italian saxophone great Emanuele Cisi’s brilliant new offering on the Right Tempo label, and Ten Lovers Music latest Best of Various EP.
Paul Murphy’s Jazz Room Records follows up last year’s massive 7inch release of Takumi Moriya Black Nation’s take on Joe McPhee’s “Shakey Jake” with a new 10inch single from the Japanese producer and bassist featuring his brilliant new rendition of Terumasa Hino’s 1981 jazz dance classic “Merry Go Round”.
Over the last several years, legendary UK jazz dance and soul DJ, and now radio broadcaster, Colin Curtis has been releasing a slew of superb EPs under his Colin Curtis Presents imprint. For his first release of 2025, he puts out the much anticipated new recording from multi-instrumentalist and producer Tom Funk‘s cosmic jazz-fusion project The Sultan’s Swing.
