Jazz
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Audiopile Review: While the ECM label has come back into fashion recently, there are still common misconceptions about Manfred Eicher’s legendary labour of love. These often centre on an oversimplified view of ECM’s trajectory. That would go something like: avant-garde 70s, new-age 80s, jazz-school everything else. But it’s ridiculous to...
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Released in 1957 on Prestige Records, Walkin’ features a collection of songs that were originally released in 1954. With Davis on trumpet and as band leader, the recordings also feature Horace Silver, Lucky Thompson, J.J. Johnson, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke. This new edition of the album is released as...
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Released in 1955 on Prestige Records, The Musings of Miles is the first 12” LP from legendary trumpet player Miles Davis. With Davis as bandleader, other players include Red Garland (piano), Oscar Pettiford (bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums). This new edition of the album is released as part...
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Flying between virtuosic formalism and freewheeling openness, Andrew Bernstein’s (Horse Lords) new album Shadows and Windy Places is a gripping picture of the Germany-based saxophonist right now. Capturing recordings across the last five years and disparate sources—some are previous album sessions, others peak into Bernstein’s daily practice—they all fall perfectly...
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Double LP version. One of Peter Brotzmann's final concerts, presented on Otoroku. When the label invited Peter to do a residency at Cafe OTO back in February 2023, it had no idea these would be his last ever shows and he played with such power it would have been hard...
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"Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) is the powerful new work by composer and alto saxophonist Darius Jones. Both of his tremendous artistic strengths are to the fore here in a fully committed trio communion with longtime collaborator Gerald Cleaver (drums) and Chris Lightcap (bass). Five potent new Jones compositions,...
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Pat Thomas returns to OTOROKU for his fourth collection of solo piano improvisations, this time recorded in a studio setting at London's Fish Factory. For 25 years now, beginning with Nur (Emanem) and continuing through Al-Khwarizmi Variations (Fataka), The Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, and now The Solar Model of Ibn...
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If the jazz of François Tusquesis is "free," his spirit is even more so: having recorded free jazz with other like-minded Frenchmen (Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérinand Charles Saudrais), the pianist had covered a lot of ground, with Barney Wilen (Le Nouveau Jazz) or even solo (Piano...
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Music-lovers of all lands, rejoice! Here you have the rerelease of the fourth album of the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra recorded with the Guinean saxophonist Jo Maka. The title says it all: Vol.4: Jo Maka. But before that, a bit of history: The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra was...
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By the mid-1970s, trumpeter Dennis Mpale was a consummate musician with an auspicious resume that located him at all the key turning points in the evolution of modern South African jazz. In his mid-20s, he led the trumpet section of Chris McGregor’s Castle Lager Big Band and participated in the...
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Wewantsounds presents Dibango 82, an unreleased live recording by Manu Dibango taped in Marseille, December 1982. The electrifying live concert features the African legend alongside his stellar eight-piece group, blending funk, jazz, and African rhythms. Highlights include "Africa Boogie" and "Waka Juju." This album, released in partnership with INA and...
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Audiopile Review: Alfa Mist, the London-based pianist and producer once again teams up with drummer Richard Spaven, a long-time active member of the city’s ever-vibrant jazz scene and collaborator with the likes of Flying Lotus and Goldie. Alfa Mist has never been one to shy away from his love of...
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Studio Barnhus proudly presents this debut full-length record from the Jimi Tenor & Freestyle Man project, the sweet, juciy fruit of the joint labour of these two undisputed champions of electronic music. Building on their work for labels like Warp and Sähkö, these Finnish legends have blessed Stockholm imprint Studio...
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Based in Hamamatsu/Japan, this three piece psych group with history dating back to 1992 has released around 10 records since. UP-TIGHT current line-up is original members T.Aoki (vocal & guitar) T.Ogata (bass) and T.Shirahata (drums). The ghost of The Velvet Underground, Les Rallizes Dénudés, and Amon Duul, loom large over...
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Oriki is an album blending jazz, Fuji and Afrobeat in a powerful tribute to Yoruba heritage. Featuring Mercury Prize-shortlisted Moses Boyd, Afronaut Zu (Steam Down, Rudimental) and spoken word artist Adesayo, Oriki merges ancestral praise with contemporary expression. Six years in the making, the album draws inspiration from NIJI's great-grandmother,...
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Featuring William Hooker (drums), David S. Ware (tenor saxophone), and Alan Braufman (alto saxophone), this recording captures a rare and electrifying moment in time. Recorded live at the New York Jazz Museum on January 14, 1977, the album has been newly mastered by Joe Lambert and is now released for...
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Pianist & composer Gerald Clayton returns with his 3rd Blue Note album Ones & Twos featuring vibraphonist Joel Ross, flutist Elena Pinderhughes, trumpeter Marquis Hill & drummer Kendrick Scott with post-production work by Kassa Overall. The album is an experiment—an idea inspired by the art of turntablism with Clayton setting...
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Julia Hülsmann’s quartet resurfaces with a fresh Norwegian voice on horn in tow and presents an attractive batch of originals that finds the group thoughtfully exploring common ground with a knack for adventure. As on past outings, each quartet member contributes music to the session, the leader herself being responsible...
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Audiopile Review: Something just occurred to us about the marvelous trio albums Oren Ambarchi has been making with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin. They could almost be stripped-back mixes of tracks from the last couple of Talk Talk albums. That connection became clear when we heard ‘Kind Regards’, Ambarchi’s new...
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"It’s been a long time since I last recorded an album - a break of some 40 years! Passing Clouds now builds on my earlier retrospective work on “Light Patterns” and “Sticklebacks” released in the past few years by the wonderful Smiling C label. I still have a daily obsession...
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Melting Steine are multi-instrumentalists and producers Martin Schenker and Luzius Schuler as well as keyboard player and bassist Dshamilja Kalt. Their nostalgic, warm instrumental music combines elements of jazz, bossa and psychedelic synthesizer music and sounds like the soundtrack to your dream island in the Mediterranean Sea. Their incomparable sound...
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Audiopile Review: Getting to this one a bit late due to issues sourcing Estonian jazz imprint RR Gems the past year, but we’ve got that all sorted finally. Coming in alongside a limited reissue of his breakthrough self-titled LP, RR Gems launches yet another new project from the NYC-based composer...
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The third edition of 'Brahja,' featuring avant-garde, spiritual jazz led by saxophonist Devin Brahja Waldman. Rooted in the NYC and Montreal jazz scenes, Brahja evolved over years of touring, incorporating musicians from various jazz-rich cities like Chicago and Washington, D.C. The self-titled 2019 album, recorded after years of live performances,...
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Muriel Grossmann has been living in Ibiza, Spain for about 20 years composing her distinguished brand of soulful spiritual jazz. 'Universal Code' is a 80-minute musical journey of modal jazz with influence of African music and soul jazz. It was composed as a natural successor of 2019 record 'Reverence.' This...
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A wild and mind-bending fusion of hip-hop, cinematic jazz, and psychedelic soundscapes awaits you. Celestial shards of cosmic dust linger in the atmosphere, enveloped by an onslaught of irresistible bass lines and meticulously crafted beats. Picture the likes of Stanley Clarke, David Axelrod, and Aphex Twin all reimagined as twenty-somethings,...
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On his Discrepant debut, memotone aka Bristolian Will Yates collects some unreleased recordings under a most aptly titled name -- Pruning -- following a healthy stream of releases for such esteemed labels as Black Acre, The Trilogy Tapes or Soda Gong. Considering the process of pruning as a practice of...
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Emile-Claire Barlow — The Very Thought of You 180-gram vinyl LP 2xHD mastering on Nagra Equipment by René Laflamme Lacquers cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering, on tube cutting equipment With a rich foundation in contemporary vocal jazz, two-time Juno Award winner and six-time nominee Emilie-Claire Barlow has solidified her influence...
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Recorded When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead in San Francisco at Fillmore West: Black Beauty Surges Ahead into a Future Jazz World, Features Superb Performances and Rich Colors First-Ever Domestic Vinyl Release of 1973 Live Album: Mobile Fidelity’s 180g 33RPM 2LP Set Plays with Captivating Energy, Presence, and...
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Recorded in Hollywood, California between two sessions in December 1956 and January 1957, Art Pepper’s Modern Art for the Intro label was an exemplar of West Coast Jazz that featured his melodic alto saxophone flights atop cool jazz, bebop, and blues in the company of a quartet with Russ Freeman...
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One of the greatest line-ups of drummer Art Blakey’s hard bop finishing school The Jazz Messengers coalesced in 1960 when tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter joined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt for the recording of The Big Beat, an album that signaled the transformation of the...
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A little-known tenor saxophonist deserving of much wider recognition, Teddy Edwards made two Pacific Jazz albums including 1960’s impressive Sunset Eyes, a showcase for his rich, powerful, full-blooded sound that dispels any preconceived notions that all West Coast jazz musicians maintained a uniformly placid musical demeanor. The album was drawn...
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Unleashed in 1976, “Bite Hard” is a relentless funk juggernaut from the legendary composer, Johnny Hawksworth. Defined by its brash urgency and dramatic flair, this album is a powerhouse lineup of brass, driving drums, searing electric guitar riffs, and soulful piano grooves.Hawksworth's dynamic compositions transcend mere danceability,...
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ATA Records present their latest recording of The Lewis Express with Doo Ha! Featuring flautist Chip Wickham and recorded live to two-inch analog tape at All Things Analogue Studios, Leeds, UK, this album is a living, breathing tribute to the golden age of soul-jazz -- the electric alchemy of smoky...
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Proudly presenting our reissue of a bona fide Latin classic from 1979 by the Cuban-born violinist Alfredo De La Fe. Based in New York and Colombia, Alfredo worked with some of the greats in Latin music including Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon and Roberto Roena, alongside disco and soul icons like...
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Hyldon, Brazil’s highly revered vocalist, musician and producer, has partnered with Adrian Younge to create a new psychedelic soul album, HYLDON JID023. The duo, highly inspired by Hyldon’s seminal work in the ‘60s and ‘70s, revisits’ the spirit of this epoch while creating a modern-day classic. Hyldon’s unique voice and...
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Guitarist, sonic explorer, and Wilco bandmember Nels Cline presents the debut recording by his Consentrik Quartet featuring Ingrid Laubrock on saxophones, Chris Lightcap on bass, and Tom Rainey on drums. Cline’s fourth Blue Note album Consentrik Quartet features 12 evocative and far-ranging soundscapes composed by Cline....
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Symbole is very proud introducing “WOMEN” by KAT-TET, a unique musical gem straight from Guadeloupe, 1985. This rare album indeed re-issued is a masterpiece made by the brilliant pianist Patrick Jean-Marie where every note is an epic journey through his genius way of composing and playing. It was a true...
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Audiopile Review: One of two new voyages from the Sam Gendel multiverse lands on these here shores, with the saxophonist collaborating here alongside longtime pal Benny Bock and Norwegian experimentalist Hans Kjorstad. Like so much of Gendel’s prodigious output, Dream Trio captures a spontaneous exchange between kindred spirits, the trio...
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This is a solo performance by SG, recorded May 19, 2019, in the Waiting Hall of Union Station in Los Angeles. Instruments used include alto saxophone with an early version of his poly-sax effect, along with a Suzuki Waraku III synthesizer. In "Cosmic Love", at 04:27, you can hear the...
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Los Angeles-based vocalist, composer, and producer Sharada Shashidhar has a deep awareness of the cosmos. There’s a distinct tug-of-war in her music, an understanding that scanning the heavens to answer existential queries isn’t quite enough; there are internal depths to plumb as well. Shashidhar’s first album, 2020’s Rahu, found her...
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On Wednesday June 21, 2023 LA-via-Rio composer Fabiano do Nascimento had organized - with Leaving Records and an ensemble of contemporaries in the local scene - a one-night-only seated concert at a historic venue in Northeast Los Angeles. Do Nascimento and his band set out to perform a curated selection...
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Spencer Zahn is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who has released several albums both as a solo artist and as a collaborator. His music is marked by openness: spacious, intriguing sonic spaces, rich with contributions from his creative community. In November 2023, Zahn released Statues - the album compositions were written...
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Ben LaMar Gay’s de facto debut album, 'Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun', was our attempt to introduce the legendary Chicago composer / improviser / renaissance man to the rest of the world with a compilation of tracks from 7 albums he made over 7 years (though he hadn’t...
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Rob Mazurek’s Alternate Moon Cycles was International Anthem's first release. The incredibly spare single-note-centered cornet, bass and organ chant was recorded to tape at pint-sized Chicago bar Curio as part of a performance series that predates any notion of our label’s existence. Documenting this performance – highly unique even within...
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Inspired by the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains north-west of Madrid, his home since August 2022, Milo Fitzpatrick presents Sierra Tracks the new album from his expansive, cinematic, chamber-jazz project Vega Trails. Having cut 2022’s beautifully resonant debut album ‘Tremors in the Static’ as a duo, alongside saxophonist...
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Keyboardist, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones shares his most elevated solo project to date, All The Quiet. A galvanising statement of intent, traversing jazz, funk, dub, hip hop, and soul music, entirely written, produced, and mixed by Armon-Jones himself. All The Quiet (Part I) is the first chapter of a...
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Butcher Brown’s limitless musical range shows no boundaries by genre and time. The band’s newest release, Letters From The Atlantic, displays a seamless blend of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, soul, bossa nova and more. Following Solar Music (2023), Butcher Brown’s new project moves toward an indie groove, featuring...
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The Kingston, Jamaica born trumpeter Dizzy Reece moved to London at age 17 and began performing across Europe, most frequently in Paris, where he played with the likes of Don Byas and Kenny Clarke. Reece also made fans of Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins who spread the word about a...
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