Tag: Spiritual 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.
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.
When it comes to some of the most rare and essential music from all over the globe, there might not be a better resource than UK-based label and record shop Mr Bongo. Since 2016, their Record Club series has produced some of the best eclectic compilations during that span. They have recently released the highly-anticipated 5th volume of the series, sharing their latest musical discoveries and old favorites.
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.
The remarkable UK-born, Madrid-based flautist and saxophonist Chip Wickham has joined Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana Records, and just released an incredible new EP on the label’s spiritual jazz 12 series, featuring fresh new reinterpretations of Lonnie Liston Smith classics.
Another incredible reissue recently issued by Frederiksberg Records, is the highly obscure 1973 deep spiritual jazz private press recording by New York-based quartet Compass, titled Compass Rises.
After 10 outstanding releases over two years featuring new music by Roy Ayers, Azymuth, Gary Bartz, Doug Carn, João Donato, Brian Jackson, and Marcos Valle, Jazz Is Dead’s masterminds Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad are just getting started, as they have kicked off the second series of releases with an incredible new compilation highlighting standout tracks from the next wave of releases.
Over the last couple years, New York’s Frederiksberg Records has put out some of the highest quality and rarest reissue releases. That certainly remains the case with their official reissue of trumpeter Milt Ward’s extremely obscure 1977 adventurous cosmic jazz-funk album Milt Ward And Virgo Spectrum.
After being shelved for 47 years, an incredible 1975 live session for New York City’s listener-supported WBAI radio station featuring saxophonist, flautist, and composer Alan Braufman and his superb sextet receives an official release.
