Jazz

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Brad Mehldau - Jacob's Ladder

Released 18th March 2022. Nonesuch Records releases Brad Mehldau’s Jacob’s Ladder on CD [a vinyl ...

Released 18th March 2022. Nonesuch Records releases Brad Mehldau’s Jacob’s Ladder on CD [a vinyl version will be released later in the year, exact date TBD].  The album features new music that reflects on scripture and the search for God through music inspired by the prog rock Mehldau loved as a young adolescent, which was his gateway to the fusion that eventually led to his discovery of jazz.  Featured musicians on the album include Mehldau’s label mates Chris Thile and Cécile McLorin Salvan...

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Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul

Released 28th January 2022. After months of anticipation, Lady Blackbird’s already critically acc...

Released 28th January 2022. After months of anticipation, Lady Blackbird’s already critically acclaimed debut album, Black Acid Soul which was recorded in legendary Studio B (Prince’s room) in Sunset Sound and produced by Grammy-nominated Chris Seefried has now been released via Foundation Music/BMG, and will be released on further vinyl and CD on 28th January 2022. The long awaited release follows a rapturous recent UK tour that saw Blackbird (aka Marley Munroe)  perform a sold out show at L...

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Robert Glasper - Black Radio III

Released 25th February 2022. We've got some Black Radio tote bags to give away with orders, while...

Released 25th February 2022. We've got some Black Radio tote bags to give away with orders, while stocks last. Robert Glasper is a premiere example of musical aptitude and a proven champion of Black music - boasting nine Grammy nominations and four wins for Best R&B Album, Best R&B Song, Best Traditional R&B Performance, and Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, and an Emmy Award for his song for Ava Duvernay’s critically hailed documentary “13th” with Common and Karriem R...

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Brad Mehldau & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Vari...

Released 11th June 2021. The recording of Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme featur...

Released 11th June 2021. The recording of Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme features the pianist/composer and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, who commissioned this orchestral version of the work, which comprises a theme and eleven variations plus a cadenza and postlude; the album also includes an encore, ‘Variations “X” and “Y”’.  [Mehldau originally composed Variations on a Melancholy Theme for pianist Kirill Gerstein.]  Mehldau and Orpheus toured Europe, Russia, and the US with th...

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Kit Downes, Petter Eldh & James Maddren - Vermi...

Released 11th February 2022. Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on ...

Released 11th February 2022. Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio programme that treads gentle lyricism and bold creative outbursts in equal measures. Downes, whose prior ECM offering Dreamlife of Debris was termed a "work of otherworldly beauty" by BBC Music Magazine, carves out some of his most compendious pieces to date on Vermillion. Replete with subtle twists and turns, the trio offers its ...

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STR4TA - Aspects

Released 26th March 2021. Gilles Peterson has partnered with Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick to reinvig...

Released 26th March 2021. Gilles Peterson has partnered with Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick to reinvigorate the loose, protean energy of the early-80s Brit-funk scene. STR4TA sees them mine new musical possibilities out of that shared formative era. On “Aspects”, they revisit that important period and the spirit that guided it: self-taught, DIY vitality, and a raucous energy built on live performance. Bringing a fresh slant to a sound first developed by groups like Atmosfear, Hi-Tension, Light of ...

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Alex Ward - Gated

Released 2nd July 2021. Conceived and realised over an 8-month period of intense solitary work, '...

Released 2nd July 2021. Conceived and realised over an 8-month period of intense solitary work, 'Gated' is Alex Ward's most ambitious musical statement to date. The ten pieces employ all of Alex's instrumental resources as a performer, featuring clarinets, saxophones, guitars, keyboards, electric bass and assorted software instruments. They draw on everything he has learned during his three-decades-plus of activity as a free improviser, composer/bandleader and sideman. The result is a dense a...

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The Superhighway Band - Studio City

Released 5th November 2021. In March 2020, both Nichol Thomson and Shawn Lee found themselves at ...

Released 5th November 2021. In March 2020, both Nichol Thomson and Shawn Lee found themselves at home without a live gig in site. Lee called up Thomson and said: "Now is the perfect time to make our smooth jazz trombone album"! Nichol laughed but Shawn... well, didn't! The pandemic was prime time to get smooth and jazzy! The two had already been working together the past few years on Shawn Lee and Andy Platts' Young Gun Silver Fox project. Nichol Thomson's horn arrangements have become an imp...

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Jeff Parker - Forfolks

Released 10th December 2021.  CD released 11th February 2022. Jeff Parker’s Forfolks — a new alb...

Released 10th December 2021.  CD released 11th February 2022. Jeff Parker’s Forfolks — a new album of solo guitar works — was recorded by Graeme Gibson at Sholo Studio in Altadena, California (aka Jeff’s house) over two days in June 2021. It includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” and the standard “My Ideal,” plus six original compositions including "Four Folks," "La Jetée" (a tune he recorded with Tortoise in 1998), and four totally new loop-driven, stratiform works that...

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Soccer96 - Dopamine

Released 15th October 2021. Vinyl Released 10th December 2021. 'The record is inspired by the ide...

Released 15th October 2021. Vinyl Released 10th December 2021. 'The record is inspired by the idea of humanity’s ever-increasing entanglement with technology and artificial intelligence, balancing fears and moral concerns with the possibilities of evolution’s next phase’  A new Soccer96 album is a chance for Danalogue (Dan Leavers) and Betamax (Maxwell Hallett) to return to something of a spiritual creative home. Between them, the keyboardist and drummer have become synonymous with the thrivi...

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Blue Lab Beats - Motherland Journey

Expected Release 25th February 2022. London based duo Blue Lab Beats announce their new and most ...

Expected Release 25th February 2022. London based duo Blue Lab Beats announce their new and most ambitious album to date :  “Motherland Journey”. The two producers and musicians assemble an all-star lineup ranging from Afrobeat star Ghetto Boy to rising stars such as Tiana Major9, Pip Millet, Ego Ella May, Kofi Stone and much more. They broaden their inspirations from their trademark Jazztronica and masterfully blend afrobeat, New R’n’B and Soul.

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Mildlife - Live from South Channel Island

Released 29th April 2022. Since oozing onto the scene, Mildlife’s mellifluous mix of jazz, krautr...

Released 29th April 2022. Since oozing onto the scene, Mildlife’s mellifluous mix of jazz, krautrock and demon grooves has fast become a word of mouth sensation among open-minded DJs and diggers searching for the perfect beat. Their emergence was fortified by European tours, demonstrating a riotously looselimbed performance approach that was every bit as thrilling as their album’s tantalizing promise. By the end of their breakout year, they’d been nominees for Best Album at the Worldwide FM A...

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