Jazz

Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye (Tone Poet R...

Released 1st October 2021. On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter...

Released 1st October 2021. On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye, a brilliant and ambitiously multi-layered album for Blue Note. Shorter’s goal for the album was to use “a wider range of colours and textures” while continuing his explorations of “life and the universe and God.” Joining Shorter in his quest are Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Grachan Moncur III on trombone, James Spaulding on alto saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron ...

BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory

Released 8th October 2021. Memory Catalogue issues 1-3 to give away with purchases of the album....

Released 8th October 2021. Memory Catalogue issues 1-3 to give away with purchases of the album. SK says: 'A first album from BBNG without founder member Matthew Tavares finds them moving away from the instrumental hip-hop sound of their earlier work to a European-flavoured jazz, blending ECM saxes and Portico Quartet textures. Closing track 'Talk Meaning' is a spiritual jazz epic propelled by string charts from the great Arthur Verocai.' BADBADNOTGOOD return with their highly anticipated ne...

Surprise Chef - All News Is Good News (2021 Rei...

Released 30th July 2021. There is something simultaneously both brand-new and retro about ‘AllNew...

Released 30th July 2021. There is something simultaneously both brand-new and retro about ‘AllNews Is Good News’ - the debut album from Melbourne’s instrumentalsoul group Surprise Chef. Now reissued on light blue vinyl with poster insert. It sounds like something dreamt up by lo-fi cousins of David Axelrod and JankoNilovic, with dramatic Library-music-eqsue cinematic arrangements echoingboth light and dark, delving into moments of dissonance and positivity. Thereis a meticulous education of 1...

The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Life Force O...

Released 15th March 2019. SK says: "Shabaka Hutchings' sax soars above synth soundscapes on this ...

Released 15th March 2019. SK says: "Shabaka Hutchings' sax soars above synth soundscapes on this heady blend of spiritual jazz, ECM fusion and electronica. Kae Tempest lends their vocals to the stirring 'Blood of the Past'."

Nubya Garcia - Source

Released 21st August 2020. Multi award-winning saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia is back with...

Released 21st August 2020. Multi award-winning saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia is back with her much anticipated debut album, SOURCE. Her first release on Concord Records, under the iconic Concord Jazz imprint. The album follows her 2018 self-released EP, WHEN WE ARE, the title track of which was described as “effervescent” by The New York Times and named one of NPR’s Best Songs of 2018. Her debut EP, NUBYA’s 5IVE, released in 2017, was hailed as “exceptional” by The Vinyl Factory and s...

Joe Armon-Jones - Starting Today

Released 4th May 2018. SK says: "A statement of intent from the Ezra Collective keysman and ubiq...

Released 4th May 2018. SK says: "A statement of intent from the Ezra Collective keysman and ubiquitous figure on the London jazz scene. Its urgent title track and the yacht-adjacent 'Almost Went Too Far' are standouts."

Maisha - There Is A Place

Released 9th November 2018.

Released 9th November 2018.

Shabaka & the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By H...

Released 13th March 2020. SK says: "The Impulse! label debut of London jazz linchpin Shabaka Hutc...

Released 13th March 2020. SK says: "The Impulse! label debut of London jazz linchpin Shabaka Hutchings' South African sextet further refines their blend of township jazz and fire music."