German-based cosmic jazz group Triorität release superb debut album ‘ALG0’
The German-based cosmic jazz trio, named Triorität, have recently released a superb eight-track debut album, titled ALG0, on their own imprint label Ouvo.
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Manchester’s trumpeter Matthew Halsall reveals new band, releases incredible album ‘Salute to the Sun’
For over a decade, composer, trumpeter, producer, DJ and founder of Gondwana Records, Matthew Halsall has consistently been at the forefront of UK’s thriving jazz scene. His 2012 masterpiece Fletcher Moss Park was named one of BeatCaffeine’s best albums of the decade. He returns with his first full-length recording as a leader since 2015, titled Salute To The Sun, featuring a brilliant new band that includes some of the finest young musicians currently residing in Manchester.
Jazz dance pioneer Gerardo Frisina returns with brilliant new rhythmic album ‘Moving Ahead’
For over the last 20 years, Italian musician and producer Gerardo Frisina has been at the forefront of some of the best jazz dance recordings of this century, blending together jazz melodies with Latin, African, Brazilian, deep house rhythms and more. He returns with quite possibly his most complete album to date in Moving Ahead.
UK’s Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham team up for highly-anticipate EP ‘Sankofa Season’
British-Ghanaian soul singer, songwriter, and producer Andrew Ashong joins forces with one of the most innovative and influential UK broken beat artists over the past two decades in keyboardist and producer Kaidi Tatham to release a brilliant new EP, titled Sankofa Season.
Soundway releases South African Bubblegum pop influenced album by Thaba
Beginning as just a single track collaboration, and blossoming into it’s own project, Soundway has recently released the debut full-length album by Thaba, titled Eyes Rest Their Feet. This is a collaborative effort between the late South African singer/songwriter Khusi Seremane and American producer/musician Gabriel Cyr.
Mexican jazz great Tino Contreras releases new hypnotic jazz album ‘La Noche de los Dioses’ on Brownswood
Earlier this year, Gilles Peterson‘s new reissue label Arc Records re-released, for the first time, Tino Contreras‘ independent 1978 psych-jazz recording Musica Infinita, introducing the 96-year-old Mexican artist to new generations of listeners. The musical relationship between Gilles, Tino, and musician/record collector Carlos Icaza, who first introduced the two, has continued with Gilles’ other label, Brownswood Recordings, releasing a great new album from the prolific composer and drummer, titled La Noche de los Dioses.
Chilean Enrique Rodríguez and the Negra Chiway Band release Latin spiritual jazz debut on Soul Jazz Records
Chilean composer, percussionist, keyboardist, and producer Enrique Rodríguez and his Negra Chiway Band have released an incredible spiritual jazz album on London’s Soul Jazz Records, titled Fase Liminal.
Trumpet & percussion duo Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes release adventurous debut on International Anthem
Over the past couple of years, New York City’s avant-jazz-meets-spoken word collective Irreversible Entanglements has stormed on the scene and have been one of the most creative and thought-provoking bands in jazz. Two of the group’s closest members in trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes have come together again to release a brilliant and wildly adventurous duo album titled Heritage of the Invisible II on Chicago’s International Anthem label.
Afro-futurism pioneers Sun Ra Arkestra release ‘Swirling’, first new studio album in 20 years
Afro-futurism pioneers, and still the greatest band in the universe, under the direction of maestro Marshall Allen, who has been leading the Arkestra since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, have just released their first studio album in over twenty years, titled Swirling on Strut Records.
Mark de Clive-Lowe releases cosmic electro-acoustic trio album ‘Dreamweavers’
Los Angeles-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive-Lowe has teamed up with two incredible Italian musicians in bassist Andrea Lombardini and drummer Tommaso Cappellato (Astral Travel) to release his first trio album since 1996, titled Dreamweavers on Mother Tongue Records.
