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Dweezil Zappa has returned to his musical roots with his new CD release Via Zammata'. Fusing analog tape and tube guitar amps alongside surprising instruments such as fretless guitar and the oud, Zappa draws you into his intimate, and multifarious musical world. Armed with unexpected vocal...
This studio album by the Brazilian superstar singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and bon vivant Ed Motta is produced by Kemau Kenyatta (Gregory Porter). His epic production features an all-star cast of West Coast musicians, including Patrice Rushen and Greg Phillinganes (keyboards), Hubert Laws...
NNA Tapes is proud to present Secret Meeting, the collaboration of Travis Laplante (tenor saxophone) and Peter Evans (trumpet). Laplante and Evans are each devoted to creating multidimensional improvisational spaces, pushing their instruments to the edge in the service of a musical experience that...
3 CD SET FEATURING CLASSIC LIVE RECORDINGS FROM MILES DAVIS With enthusiasm for the music of Miles Davis stretching way further than that for any other Jazz musician who ever produced a note, and the new bio-pic movie about Miles life creating even more interest, the time could not be better for...
Following 2014's Marshall Allen compilation, 'In the Orbit Of Ra' and 2015's Gilles Peterson-curated 'To Those Of Earth… And Other Worlds', Strut and Art Yard join forces once more for the first release anywhere of 'In Some Far Place: Roma'77' pressed on a limited edition two cd set. First issue of...
Strut presents a definitive collection of recordings from one of Tanzania's most revered bands of the early 1970s, Sunburst. Covering their output from 1973 to 1976, this first retrospective features their singles for the Moto Moto and TFC labels, their sole album, ‘Ave Africa' and an unreleased...
Tam Tam Tam Reimagined is the second album to come from Gilles Peterson's Sonzeira project. Overseen by the legendary DJ and record collector, this second album picks up where the first one left off. Where Brasil Bam Bam Bam brought together the allstars of Brazilian music, this album focuses on a...
Soul Jazz Records' new Nigeria Freedom Sounds! Features a stunning selection of material spotlighting the vibrant musical scene in Nigeria at the start of the 1960s. With a wealth of musical and cultural history and newly independent from Britain, Nigerian music during this era was complex, diverse...
It's the year 2016 and David Hanke, widely recognized under his moniker Renegades Of Jazz, is back with his third full-on longplay effort entitled ‘Moyo Wangu'. After his conceptual and darker approach to his last album ‘Paradise Lost' released in 2015, we see Renegades Of Jazz explore the world of...
This collection celebrates the early career of a pioneering artist, one who has constantly challenged the very definition of what constitutes Jazz music, a unique performer and singer who has brought Jazz to a much wider audience. - The Essential Early Recordings by Cleo Laine (CD)
Chet Baker - Live In London (2CD) A stunning unreleased Chet Baker session from 1983 recorded with a great UK trio. Remastered and released with permisison from the Chet Baker Estate. For six evenings, from 28th March to 2nd April 1983, the John Horler Trio rhythm section supported the legendary...
‘Future Standards' sees him fulfil a long time aspiration to play jazz standards. Inspired by the classics, his piano songs have found a clearer shape as "future standards" but have always been a central element to his creativity. Sitting neatly against his huge back catalogue of solo records,...
Deeply influenced by the collaboration with David Bowie on his last record Blackstar, Donny McCaslin steps forward and releases Beyond Now on the 14th of October, recorded nearly three months after Bowie's passing. Along with "David Bowie's Last Band" (Jason Lindner, Mark Guiliana, Tim Lefebvre and...
The borders between London's musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital - with its hum of jungle, grime and broken beat - has shaped a selftaught, UKtipped approach to playing jazz. In the states, the genre's longrunning to-and-fro with hip hop - from Robert...
Last time I heard SPUNK was phenomenal! They are among the most exciting improvising groups in the world right now. Fred Frith Formed in 1995, SPUNK comprises four of Norway's most innovative musicians: Kristin Andersen - trumpet and recorders Hild Sofie Tafjord - french horn, toys, live processing...
This latest offering encapsulates a unique hybrid of approaches into an all original 9 track album which unifies New Orleans style clave rhythms, hard-bop ‘Coltrane changes', Boogaloo grooves reminiscent of Lee Morgan's ‘The Sidewinder' and influences from 70's funk, surf-rock and Country music's....
Soul Jazz Records' new album features the truly intense, hypnotic and fascinating Vodou drums of Haiti, a stunning collection of trance-like rhythms and beats traditionally used to induce spirit possession in the Vodou religion. Soul Jazz Records first journeyed to Haiti in 1996 to record a series...
Daniel Brandt, co-founder of Germany's electroacoustic ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, joins the Erased Tapes family with his solo debut album Eternal Something. What started off as a more simplistic idea soon evolved into something a lot more complex as the London and Berlin based music producer...
As some of you may know, Alice Coltrane was a legendary pianist, composer, spiritual leader, and the wife of John Coltrane, the most venerated and infuential saxophonist in the history of jazz. In 1967, four years after meeting John, he died of liver cancer, leaving Alice a widow with four small...
Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music, Mulatu Astatke's ‘Mulatu Of Ethiopia' from 1972. Recorded in New York, the album arrived at a time when Astatke had begun to master the delicate fusion of styles needed to create Ethio jazz. "I left the UK...