Archive for the Jazz Category
Angel Bat Dawid “The Oracle” (International Anthem)
Composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid descended on Chicago’s jazz & improvised music scene just a couple years ago. In very short time, the potency, prowess, spirit & charisma of her cosmic musical proselytizing has taken her from relatively unknown improviser to borderline ubiquitous performer in […]
Comet Is Coming “Death To The Planet” (The Leaf)
Follow-up to the Mercury Prize nominated Channel The Spirits. Darkness and light. The party to end all parties. The ghosts of 70s Harlem, via the warehouses of Chicago and Manchester, presided over by Sun Ra. The sound of total planetary destruction, produced with laser-guided accuracy and aimed directly at the […]
Floating Points “Crush” (Ninja Tune)
Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points has announced his new album Crush will be released on 18 October on Ninja Tune. Along with the announcement he has shared new track ‘Last Bloom’ along with accompanying video by Hamill Industries and announced details of a new live show with dates including London’s […]
Herbie Hancock “Inventions and Dimensions” (Drift)
While Hancock had already recorded ‘Takin’ Off’ and ‘My Point Of View’, he had quickly developed his own innovative style, and was about to become a member of the Miles Davis Quintet. Inventions and Dimensions is unlike anything he had previously created. Hancock manages the impossible feat of performing music […]
Joe Henderson “In ‘N Out” (Blue Note)
Recorded in April 1964, In ‘N Out falls square in the middle of the formidable run of five classic Blue Note albums that launched tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson’s legendary career. The line-up featured the transcendent frontline of Henderson and trumpeter Kenny Dorham along with a powerful rhythm section with pianist […]
Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims “Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims” (Blue Note)
German Jazz pianist Jutta Hipp remains one of the most intriguing yet little-known figures in Blue Note history. A unique and short-lived presence on the NYC Jazz scene in the mid-1950s, Hipp moved to the U.S. with the aid of critic Leonard Feather and recorded a series of Blue Note […]
Steve Hiett “Down On The Road By The Beach” (Be With)
140 gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve; includes 16-page insert with photos and liner notes. For the first time since its inception in 1983, Steve Hiett’s elusive Down On The Road By The Beach is finally made available outside of Japan. Most recognized in the fashion sphere as an English photographer and […]
Steve Hiett “Girls In The Grass” (Be With)
140 gram vinyl; includes four-page insert with photos and liner notes. Three emotional years in the making, Be With and Efficient Space present Steve Hiett’s Girls In The Grass. Pressed alongside the long-awaited reissue of his one-shot masterpiece, Down On The Road By The Beach (BEWITH 001CD/061LP), these ten Balearic […]
Johnny Griffith “The Geneva Connection” (Mad About)
Mad About Records present a reissue of Johnny Griffith’s The Geneva Connection, originally released on the Detroit Geneva label in 1974. Detroit jazz-funk, hard-to-find — an extremely rare album left by Detroit-based jazz keyboard player Johnny Griffith known for the album Together, Togetherness on RCA (1974). Music From The Connection […]
Reggie Andrews & The Fellowship “Mystic Beauty” (Mad About)
Mad About Records present a reissue of Reggie Andrews and The Fellowship’s Mystic Beauty, originally released in 1969. ’60s jazz holy grail LP out of California — a mythical album on many jazz collector’s want-lists. This LP is on the extremely limited and sought-after private press label HME. It has […]
Ghania With Pharoah Sanders “The Trance Of Seven Colors” (Zehra)
Zehra present The Trance Of Seven Colors by master Gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania and free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders, available on vinyl for the very first time. Originally released in 1994 on Bill Laswell’s Axiom imprint, and produced by Bill Laswell, The Trance Of Seven Colors is the meeting […]
Matana Roberts “COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis” (Constellation)
Matana Roberts returns from an extensive, celebrated live tour with the fourth volume of her deeply personal but resoundingly immersive ‘Coin Coin’ chapters. The onetime member of Exploding Star Orchestra looks south to Memphis and the memory of her grandmother (that’s her on the cover) for a typically passionate investigation […]
Comet Is Coming “Channel The Spirits” (The Leaf)
Channel The Spirits is a cosmic odyssey. With psychedelic intensity, the band evokes the ghosts of bold experimentalists like Sun Ra, Funkadelic and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Here is the universe in a microcosm; the life-force distilled down to its raw essence: sex and dancing. Sub-bass, slamming analogue synths, unhinged […]
Comet Is Coming “Prophecy” (The Leaf)
“In the sky will be seen a fire, dragging a tail of sparks…” Just as Nostradamus prophesised in his quatrains, The Comet Is Coming: “The great star for seven days will burn, the cloud will cause two suns to appear and the big mastiff all night will howl.” End times […]
Azymuth “Light As A Feather” (Far Out)
Far Out Recordings present a reissue of Azymuth’s Light As A Feather, originally released in in 1979. Azymuth’s career-defining LP Light As A Feather returns. Home to their worldwide disco/fusion hit single “Jazz Carnival”, the samba-doido staple “Partido Alto”, and the proto-deep house masterpiece “Avenida Das Mangueiras”, this album typifies […]
David Axelrod “Seriously Deep” (Get On Down)
“The rediscovery of the music of David Axelrod in the 1990s was a revelation to the scores of hip-hop and breakbeat DJs that sampled him, but his composition genius was on display as early as the 1960s. After producing and arranging major critical and commercial hits for Lou Rawls, The […]
Buddy Collette “Polynesia” (Trunk)
The rarest of all exotic LPs, like Eden Ahbez but with extra added death. This bizarre, rarely heard masterpiece brings together jazz, ancient manuscripts, and a convicted murderer… Issued originally in 1959 it originates from Phoenix, Arizona. The concept behind the recording was unusual — to bring together two unconnected […]
Nat Birchall “Storyteller- A Musical Tribute to Yusef Lateef” (Jazzman)
Double LP version. 180 gram vinyl; includes download card. With 20 years passing since his first foray into recorded jazz, Nat Birchall now ranks as one of the premier saxophonists of his generation. With several highly acclaimed albums in the locker, he now returns with his most ambitious project yet: […]
Atomic Forest “Disco Roar” (Now-Again)
“The re-discovered third album by India’s best known psychedelic-rock ensemble, presented in its entirety. The companion piece our Atomic Forest anthology Obsession. Covers of Deodato, Stevie Wonder and ‘Spectrum,’ the heaviest Indian psych-funk jam unearthed to date. Over the course of four years, culminating in 2011, we at Now-Again Records […]
Lord Echo “Curiosities” (Soundway)
Soundway Records completes the Lord Echo album collection, finally reissuing the second album in the trilogy from the in-demand New Zealand multi-instrumentalist and producer. Originally released in 2013, Curiosities is available here as a DJ-friendly double-LP for the first time. The entirely self-produced album blends jazz with disco-tinged neo-soul, reggae, […]
Cassandra Wilson “Glamoured” (Blue Note)
2LP Tone Poet series. A singular jazz singer who brings the blues, folk & pop into her music in a strikingly original way, Cassandra Wilson’s nine brilliant Blue Note albums earned her wide acclaim, Grammy Awards & a legion of fans. Released in 2003, Glamoured found Wilson working with producer […]
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie “Bird & Diz” (Verve)
This 1952 collection is one of bebop’s key artefacts and also represents two milestones: the only and only time that pianist Thelonious Monk recorded with the dynamic duo, and the last time Gillespie and Parker appeared together in the studio. It also features the red-hot rhythm section of bassist Curly […]
Joe Armon-Jones “Turn To Clear View” (Brownswood)
The wildly-talented keys player returns with a luminous jazz-funk masterstroke. Tipping a hat to Herbie Hancock and Mad Scientist alike! Bass-heavy dub and contemporary club culture are the foundations for Joe Armon-Jones’ phenomenal second album. Turn to Clear View builds on the celebrated keys player’s singular vision, exhibiting a sound […]
Lloyd Mcneill “Elegia” (Soul Jazz)
uper rare deep spiritual jazz album with a heavy Brazilian influence featuring Nana Vasconceles, Dom Salvador, Portinho, Cecil McBee and more. Originally released privately by the artist and flautist Lloyd McNeill in 1980 and out of print for nearly 40 years. “Lloyd McNeill is a cultural polymath – a multi- […]