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Some of London’s leading jazz artists come together as Flock, release superb new album on Strut

Flock is a new collaborative ensemble featuring five of London’s most forward-thinking and groundbreaking musicians, including percussionist, gyil player, producer Bex Burch (Vula Viel), drummer and tabla virtuoso Sarathy Korwar, synth wiz Dan “Danalogue” Leavers (Soccer96, The Comet Is Coming), pianist Al MacSween (Maisha) and bass clarinetist, flautist, and soprano saxophonist Tamar Osborn (Collocutor). The all-star group will be releasing their brilliant and highly-anticipated debut album for Strut later next month on May 20th.

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Italian bassist Rosa Brunello releases brilliant improvised hypnotic full-length ‘Sounds Like Freedom’

Adventurous Italian bassist and composer Rosa Brunello, who often explores everything from progressive rock and jazz fusion to dub and experimental electronic music, is releasing a brilliant new full-length record, appropriately titled Sounds Like Freedom, on Tommaso Cappellato’s new label Domanda Music.

Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt

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Strut reissues Sun Ra Arkestra’s 1983 Egyptian sessions with Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band

London’s Strut Records concludes it’s exploration into Sun Ra Arkestra’s historic recordings in Egypt with a reissue of the 1983 collaborative album with great Egyptian percussionist and drummer Salah Ragab and his large ensemble, The Cairo Jazz Band.

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Khalab curates brilliant new compilation featuring deep jazz selections from legendary Italian label Soul Note

Italian artist and producer Raffaele Constantino, better known in many music circles as Khalab, has been at the forefront of some the most otherworldly futuristic electronic recordings. For his latest project on his Hyperjazz label, he is curating a brilliant new compilation series, called Hyperituals, with the first two volumes exploring the deep jazz vaults of the influential, yet unsung Milan sister labels Black Saint/Soul Note.

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Jazz Room Records reissues rare & mysterious 1973 soul jazz recording ‘The Power of Feeling’

Legendary UK deejay Paul Murphy and his Jazz Room Records label continue their impressive string of releases with the recent reissue of the highly-obscure 1973 soul jazz album The Power of Feeling from the somewhat mysterious artist Sir Edward, which was later identified as the unsung saxophonist great and flutist Harold Vick.

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Pianist Barney McAll releases brilliant uplifting cosmic soul-jazz album featuring Gary Bartz, Hiatus Kaiyote and others

Australian-born, New York-based composer and pianist Barney McAll, who has made his mark playing along side Gary Bartz, Billy Harper, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesely, Dewey Redman, and so many others, has released a brilliant new uplifting cosmic soul-jazz album on his Extra Celestial Arts label, titled Precious Energy.

David Wertman & Sun Ensemble - Wide Eye Culture

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BBE Music reissues David Wertman & Sun Ensemble’s rare 1983 spiritual jazz album ‘Wide Eye Culture’

Following the 2019 BBE Music reissue of bassist David Wertman’s 1978 Sun Ensemble debut Earthly Delights, the London-based label has re-released an expansive version of the group’s 1983 spiritual jazz album Wide Eye Culture.

If Music Presents You Need This: Klinkhamer Records

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The latest ‘If Music Presents…’ spotlights Dutch record shop Klinkhamer Records in great new compilation

For the latest release of Jean-Claude Thompson’s fantastic If Music Presents You Need This compilation series on BBE, he turns his focus to Dutch record shop Klinkhamer Records and invites owner Michel Veenstra to compile some of his most notable “holy grails” that have come through the shop.

Laurent Bardainne and Tigre d'Eau Douce — Hymne au Soleil

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French saxophonist Laurent Bardainne returns with superb cosmic jazz-funk album ‘Hymne au Soleil’

Paris-based composer, bandleader and tenor saxophonist Laurent Bardainne returns with his quintet project Tigre d’eau Douce, following the group’s impressive 2020 debut Love Is Everywhere, with a brilliant new cosmic jazz album on Heavenly Sweetness, titled Hymne au Soleil.

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Afro-French bassist & vocalist Sélène Saint-Aimé taps into the spirits of her Caribbean heritage on new album

Highly talented Afro-French composer, bassist and vocalist Sélène Saint-Aimé returns with her second full-length release for the Komos Jazz label, titled POTOMITAN, exploring her Caribbean cultural roots.