Tag: Jazz

BeatCaffeine Radio | Motion FM | March 22, 2025

BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, Mar 22, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, March 22nd BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast includes a tribute to the late great soul-jazz legend Roy Ayers, as well as a number of jazz dance classics from Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Southern Energy Ensemble, Airto & Flora Purim, and Jon Hendricks, new tracks from Marcello Cassanelli, The Lewis Express & Chip Wickham, the forthcoming reissue by Frederiksberg Records of Margeeah and much more!

BeatCaffeine's Weekly Record Rundown March 14, 2025

BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown 03.14.25

This week’s BeatCaffeine Weekly Record Rundown includes the incredible soul-jazz collaboration between The Lewis Express and flautist Chip Wickham, the latest offering from forward-thinking British-Bahrani trumpeter Yazz Ahmed, a beautifully lush album from North Carolina trio Okonski, and the fifth volume of legendary producer and DJ John Beltran’s must-buy-them-all Back to Bahia series.

BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, Mar 8, 2025

BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, Mar 8, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, March 8th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast includes a tribute to the late great Roberta Flack, as well as a number of jazz dance classics from Monika Linges, Robin Jones Seven, Clare Fischer, arguably the greatest dancefloor jazz song of all-time “Get Off The Ground” by Baaska & Scavelli, new tracks from Marshall Allen, Ensemble C and much more!

BeatCaffeine Radio hosted by TJ Gorton | Motion FM | Feb 22, 2025

BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, Feb 22, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, February 22nd BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast dives into some Brazilian-flavored jazz dance gems from Sivuca and José Mangual Jr., as well as music from forthcoming releases by Jazz Room Records and Far Out Recordings, a brand new track from Italian piano legend Mario Rusca, “nu jazz” classics from Gerardo Frisina and Seikou Nagaoka, the Florian Pellissier Quintet and much more!

BeatCaffeine Radio hosted by TJ Gorton on Motion FM, Feb 8, 2025

BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, Feb 8, 2025

Listen back to the Saturday, February 8th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast dives into some jazz dance selections from Duke Pearson, Bobby Hutcherson, Hideo Shiraki, and Sue Raney, as well as exploring some timeless classics from Muse Records, and “nu jazz” gems from Mario Biondi, Nicola Conte superb remix of Eli Goulart E Banda Do Mato’s “Meu Samba” and much more!

BeatCaffeine's Weekly Record Rundown Feb 7, 2025

BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown 02.7.25

This week’s BeatCaffeine Weekly Record Rundown highlights the brilliant new albums from Belgium-based quintet Black Flower, and legendary 86-year-old Italian pianist Mario Rusca, an impressive EP from two of Schema Records’ most notable artists in Gerardo Frisina, and Toco, along with vocalist Luzia Dvorek, and the Far Out Recordings debut of forward-thinking Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and producer Nyron Higor.

BeatCaffeine's Weekly Record Rundown Jan 24, 2025

BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown 01.24.25

The first BeatCaffeine Weekly Record Rundown of 2025 highlights Jazzman Records’ latest volume of their highly-acclaimed Spiritual Jazz compilation series, diving deep into the vaults of the German SABA and MPS labels, a brilliant Night Dreamer direct-to-disc album from legendary Dutch-Surinamese multi-instrumentalist Ronald Snijders, a must-own 7″ from Mukatsuku Records featuring the funky sounds of Italian supergroup Addict Ameba, and a massive soulful jazzy house album from Chicago’s Vick Lavender.

BeatCaffeine Radio hosted by TJ Gorton on Motion FM, Jan 11, 2025

BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, Jan 11, 2025

Listen back to the first BeatCaffeine Radio show of 2025 on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast dives into some Brazilian-inspired classics from Airto, Lonnie Sattin, George Duke, and Jay Hoggard, as well as the latest from Azymuth, and some jazz dance gems from Gerardo Frisina, Shigeharu Mukai, Pharoah Sanders and more!

BeatCaffeine's Favorite Tracks of 2024

BeatCaffeine’s Favorite Tracks of 2024

Happy New Year! We’ve made it to the final day of 2024. For what will probably be the final BeatCaffeine “best of” list of the year, we dive into some of our favorite tracks over the past twelve months. This one definitely gets the reward for most difficult list to put together out of the bunch. Even though this list stops at 40, this could have easily been a top 100 given how great some of the music was this year.

BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, Dec 28, 2024

BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, Dec 28, 2024

Listen back to Saturday, December 28, 2024 BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast looks back at just some of my favorite jazz reissues and previously unreleased records from 2024 including tracks by Sun Ra, Webster Lewis, Roland Haynes Jr & Phenix, Roy Hargrove, Copa Salvo, Enzo Randisi, and much more!