MY FAVORITE THINGS – Show #13 w/ DJ Dusty from Jazz Liberatorz (Hosted by Psycut)
Really excited to have as the first guest for my show my good friend DJ Dusty from Jazz Liberatorz. Ten years ago one, he was one of the first DJ’s who played at the Jazz Attitudes Party I started in Paris. This 13th session of My Favorite Things is, as …
Exclusive Premiere: Tensei “Curtis Kuti” feat. Makaya McCraven (Tokyo Dawn Records)
Upon popular request, TDR presents the instrumentals and re-edits of Tensei’s uplifting ‘Constellate’ release. Tensei (meaning “Heaven Star” in Japanese) is the Chicago based producer tandem of Midas Wells and Chris Kramer. The music represents a soulful, electronic and hip hop infused perspective to Chicago’s growing spiritual jazz movement, with …
Exclusive Premiere: Culross Close (K15) “Acceptance”
Much of the way in which the world operates today, at a human level, concerns exploitation, using another’s vulnerability for one’s own benefit, an idea so commonplace we only recognise its ill in the extremes. From reflection, to acceptance, to hope, Forgotten Ones delves into the contradictions of accepting the …
SEED Ensemble “Driftglass”
The latest release from London-based Jazz Re:Freshed label comes from a collective featuring some of the best musicians from the region including tuba player Theon Cross (Sons of Kemet), trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey (KOKOROKO), Joe Armon-Jones (Ezra Collective) and others. Led by alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, also of KOKOROKO and Nerija, …
Angel Bat Dawid “The Oracle”
Incredibly special cassette/digital album from the Chicago-based “composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer”. A project full of warmth, experimentation and emotion, recorded solo for the most part, at home in Chicago or impromptu on tour in London & Capetown, straight to cell phone. Melodious clarinet riffing, pianos, overdubbing, singing …
Exclusive Premiere: Chris Dawkins “Rootsman In Space” Ft. Jimi Tenor
Chris Dawkins is renowned for his work as a session musician and co-writer, penning and playing for Nightmares On Wax, touring and writing with Jimi Tenor and Maurice Fulton, collaborating with Dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood, and co-writing the blockbuster Oceans 11 Soundtrack with David Holmes – to name just a …
Exclusive Premiere: The Reboot Joy Confession “Enjoy Solitude” (Nutriot Records)
We are excited to present the first taste from an outstanding compilation project from our friends at Nutriot out of beautiful Vienna, Austria. “For The Colleagues Of Ubu & Their Authorities” is the brainchild of Vienna based vinyl enthusiast, DJ & producer The Reboot Joy Confession. As composer, producer and sound …
Joe McPhee “Nation Time” (1971)
Bay Area’s Superior Viaduct label has reissued saxophonist Joe McPhee’s 1971 free-willing jazz classic ‘Nation Time.’ Originally released on the small CjR imprint, the very rare three track recording, which features the all-time cooker “Shakey Jake,” fuses funky backing grooves with McPhee’s fiery post-Coltrane tenor solos and melodies. Release Info …
Ill Considered “5” + “6”
These two essential new albums from jazz supergroup ILL CONSIDERED, recorded little more than a year after their first, intended to be listened to together, showcase the group’s rapid development. Leon Brichard on electric & upright bass, Idris Rahman on tenor sax and now bass clarinet (with devastating effect on …
Rising trombonist / composer Rosie Turton shares her 5 influences
London-based trombonist and composer Rosie Turton is one of the up and coming voices on the UK jazz scene and has expressed herself through a variety of different musical outlets, from composing and playing with septet Nerija (Domino Recording Co), Sun Ra space-influenced Where Pathways Meet to recording with Jitwam and …
Exclusive Premiere: Mark de Clive-Lowe “Memories Of Nanzenji” (Ropeadope Records)
On February 8th, pianist, producer and composer Mark de Clive-Lowe will release his new album Heritage via Ropeadope. For the half-Japanese half-New Zealander who calls Los Angeles home, Heritage is a deeply personal exploration of de Clive-Lowe’s ancestry and cultural roots. “ Heritage is the idea of transmitting from the …
Duke Pearson “I Don’t Care Who Knows It” (Deluxe Expanded Remastered Edition)
This once lost Blue Note finally gets the treatment it deserves. Recorded over ‘68 to ‘70, released in ‘96, in full on CD but just in part on vinyl, Pearson’s LP really shines now, with the heavy versions of Brazilian classics, “Upa Neguinho”, sung by Flora Purim, and “Captain Bicardi”, …