Jazz

R+R=NOW - Collagically Speaking

Released 15th June 2018. SK says: "The debut from Robert Glasper's Blue Note supergroup featuring...

Released 15th June 2018. SK says: "The debut from Robert Glasper's Blue Note supergroup featuring his Experiment cohort bassist Derrick Hodge, Hodge's drummer Justin Tyson, all-star trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Brainfeeder keyboardist Taylor McFerrin, singer-keysman Terrace Martin. Collagically Speaking fuses jazz, R&B, electronica, hip-hop and spoken word."

R+R=NOW - Live

Released 12th February 2021. Vinyl Released 14th May 2021. SK says: "Cut live at the Blue Note sh...

Released 12th February 2021. Vinyl Released 14th May 2021. SK says: "Cut live at the Blue Note shortly after the sessions for their debut Collagically Speaking, Live sees the jazz supergroup stretch out, turning that album's 'Resting Warrior' into a 25-minute jam alongside a brand new Terrace Martin/Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah composition and a take on Kendrick Lamar's 'How Much a Dollar Cost'."

Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow

Released 23rd July 2021. The debut album by Emma-Jean Thackray feels exactly like the sort of thi...

Released 23rd July 2021. The debut album by Emma-Jean Thackray feels exactly like the sort of thing we’ve been longing for over the last 12 months: a transcendent, human, shared experience. Across its 49 minutes, Yellow draws glowing lines between ‘70s jazz fusion and P-Funk, the cosmic invocations of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane, and the gorgeous orchestration of the Beach Boys. “I wanted the whole thing to sound like a psychedelic trip,” explains Thackray. “You put on the first track, it takes...

Miles Davis - Merci, Miles! Live at Vienne

Released 25th June 2021. By 1991, the world’s most celebrated trumpeter could look back on five d...

Released 25th June 2021. By 1991, the world’s most celebrated trumpeter could look back on five decades of musical evolution – his own, and that of the world around him. Miles Davis had found ways of marrying jazz with classical ideas, then later R&B, rock and funk, producing hybrid offspring that shaped the course of popular music and had come to define his legend.  In 1985, he’d left Columbia after thirty years to sign to Warner Bros. Records, a label riding high with best-selling artis...

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Norah Jones - ...'Til We Meet Again

Released 16th April 2021. Nearly two decades into her storied career, 9-time GRAMMY-winning singe...

Released 16th April 2021. Nearly two decades into her storied career, 9-time GRAMMY-winning singer, songwriter, pianist, and 2020’s most livestreamed artist Norah Jones will release her first full live album ‘Til We Meet Again on April 16. The collection presents globe-spanning performances from the U.S., France, Italy, Brazil, and Argentina that were recorded between 2017-2019. The first single “It Was You,” which is available to stream or download today, was recorded at the 2018 Ohana Festi...

Ishmael Ensemble - Visions of Light

Expected Release 20th August 2021. Bristol experimental jazz collective Ishmael Ensemble reveal t...

Expected Release 20th August 2021. Bristol experimental jazz collective Ishmael Ensemble reveal their expansive new album Visions of Light. The follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2019 debut A State of Flow, praised by the likes of The Guardian, Mojo, The Wire and tastemakers across BBC 6Music, this sophomore record sees the group reimagine what an ‘ensemble’ can do; expanding into a shifting collective, where human relationships between artists underpin far-ranging, stunningly ambitious ...

Gil Scott-Heron/Makaya McCraven - We're New Again

Released 7th February 2020. SK Albums of the Year 2020. 'To celebrate the tenth anniversary of th...

Released 7th February 2020. SK Albums of the Year 2020. 'To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the final album from the late, great Gil Scott-Heron, Chicago-based drummer/beatmaker Makaya McCraven set about building a brand new version of the record from the ground up, cutting up sessions with fellow International Anthem musicians including harpist Brandee Younger, bassist Junius Paul and Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker into fragmentary arrangements and organic loops. A fitting, vital tribute ...