Jazz

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...

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'."

Nérija - Blume

Release 2nd August 2019. SK says: "One of the standout jazz releases of 2019. The London scene su...

Release 2nd August 2019. SK says: "One of the standout jazz releases of 2019. The London scene supergroup features Sheila Maurice-Grey, Cassie Kinoshi, Nubya Garcia and secret weapon, guitarist Shirley Tetteh."

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."

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."

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Released 18th May 2015. SK says: "The album that catapulted Washington into the spotlight as o...

Released 18th May 2015. SK says: "The album that catapulted Washington into the spotlight as one of the key figures in contemporary jazz. Building on the cosmic big band approach of Sun Ra and the afrofuturist fusion of the Brainfeeder label, this triple-album features a sibling rhythm section of Thundercat and Ronald Bruner Jr."

Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth

Released 22nd June 2018.

Released 22nd June 2018.