Jazz

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 ...

Moses Boyd - Dark Matter

Released 14th February 2020. SK Album of the Year 2020 'A key figure in the all-conquering Londo...

Released 14th February 2020. SK Album of the Year 2020 'A key figure in the all-conquering London jazz scene, Moses Boyd has collaborated with most of its players, either sat at the drum stool or in the producer's chair. Plenty of them return the favour here, including that man again Joe Armon-Jones, saxophonist/composer Nubya Garica, tuba innovator Theon Cross and Boyd's old sparring partner in the fiery improv duo Binker & Moses, Binker Golding. Rooted in the London sound with its pro...

Matthew Halsall - Salute to the Sun

Released 20th November 2020. Composer, trumpeter, producer, DJ and founder of Gondwana Records, M...

Released 20th November 2020. Composer, trumpeter, producer, DJ and founder of Gondwana Records, Matthew Halsall has always worn many hats. But at the heart of everything that he does Halsall is first and foremost an artist and a musician. A trumpeter whose unflashy, soulful playing radiates a thoughtful beauty and a composer and band-leader who has created his own rich sound world. A sound that draws on the heritage of British jazz, the spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, as...

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels - Tone Poem

Released 12th February. Tone Poem is the third full-length album by Charles Lloyd & The Marve...

Released 12th February. Tone Poem is the third full-length album by Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, the genre-straddling quintet that features the master saxophonist with Bill Frisell on guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland on drums. Following the band’s 2016 debut I Long To See You and their 2018 collaboration with Lucinda Williams Vanished Gardens, the nine dynamic instrumental tracks here include new Lloyd originals along with pieces by Ornette...

Alfa Mist - Bring Backs

Expected Release 23rd April 2021. Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibra...

Expected Release 23rd April 2021. Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibrant scene of UK musicians, who’ve taken on jazz as their musical narrative. On his new album Bring Backs the producer, self-taught pianist and rapper takes us on a sonic trip back to his beat-making past on the streets of East London, through the depth and musicality he discovered composing and playing jazz. 2017 saw the release of Alfa’s breakthrough record, Antiphon and the 2019’s album Structura...