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Strut is proud to announce the new album by UK jazz pianist, Greg Foat, ‘Symphonie Pacifique', released on 3rd July 2020. Foat has become a versatile mainstay in UK jazz through an acclaimed series of albums on Jazzman and Athens Of The North, moving from soul-jazz workouts to library music to...
On this breathtaking debut the new Whit Dickey Trio shines a powerful collective invention. Expanding Light teams the veteran drummer with one of his most long-standing collaborators, saxophonist Rob Brown, and for the first time with the young firebrand bassist Brandon Lopez. The album maintains a...
Heavyweight matt laminated tip-on sleeve 180g heavyweight vinyl Limited deluxe first pressing of 1,000 copies Gloss insert of session photography by Richard James 22a founder, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Tenderlonious, head's up this incredibly special release for Jazz Detective Records,...
As the London Jazz Scene moves more and more towards the dancefloor, Kansas Smitty's is the cinematic and meditative side of instrumental music. The new record from Kansas Smitty's "Things Happened Here" is a modern classic. It's a concept album who's sole concept is to capture the complexity of...
On The Corner Records is delighted to announce the release of Dialectic Soul, the debut album from one of Cape Town's most cuttingedge, visionary artists and musicians, the drummer Asher Gamedze This is Jazz at its most spiritual, most progressive and most appealing form. As Asher himself says:...
In May 2018 Hedvig received an invitation from Vossajazz - the much loved annual festival established in 1973 - to write the commission work for 2019. This came at the right time, she had been thinking about writing for a bigger group than the trio, and this would be a good opportunity. To make it...
Influential jazz collective Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids return with an epic new opus, ‘Shaman!', featuring a fresh line-up including original 1970s Pyramids member Dr. Margaux Simmons on flute, Bobby Cobb on guitar, long-term associate Sandra Poindexter on violin, Ruben Ramos on bass, Gioele...
Music Conjures Serenity and Violence of Water Through Sweeping, Vivid Compositions Christian Sands' third recording for Mack Avenue Music Group captures and establishes him as a forceful leader in composition and conceptual vision. With Be Water (available July 17th worldwide), the music is akin to...
The latest addition to Chick Corea's remarkable discography is ‘Plays', a captivating and intimate double album of solo performances. While he claims that, "Solo piano is lonely," Chick finds himself in good company throughout these stellar performances, engaging with several of his favorite...
Strut present the first ever compilation bringing together classics and rarities from the seminal spiritual jazz and conscious soul label Black Fire, covering 1975 to 1993. Formed by DJ and record producer Jimmy Gray in Richmond, Virginia, and following in the footsteps of other influential...
Saxophonist and composer Quinsin Nachoff's career to date has delivered a boundary-crossing body of work that's consistently unpredictable, fearlessly innovative, breathtakingly accomplished, and full of creative passion, constantly increasing its scope to encompass ever greater horizons. ‘Pivotal...
For ‘Django-shift' Rez Abbasi chose seven of Django Reinhardt's original pieces and two classic tunes that he was greatly associated with. The arrangements were soon created for a contemporary trio format, with Neil Alexander on organ and electronics and Michael Sarin on drums. The results give a...
On ‘Romantic Funk: The Unfamiliar' outstanding bassist Orlando le Fleming introduces us to a new sound, a tribute to the muscular, high-intensity fusion of the 1980s, and a new band, Romantic Funk. Le Fleming has assembled an awesome team of top flight players: with Philip Dizack on trumpet and...
After the highly successful "Perfectly Unhappy" album with Andy Sheppard, the trio is back with a new album featuring seven brand new songs from the pianist. Captivating and lyrical, always melodic, often melancholic and uplifting at the same time, these are all real _tunes_. After 10 years, four...
Leron Thomas isn't making it easy on himself. His self-produced records are hard to sum up - and that's the point. NY TIMES // ‘More Elevator Music' is twelve tracks of jazz-edged hip-hop and reassuring curiosity reaching from the fuzziest depths of its backpack, with Iggy Pop, Malik Crumpler,...
The unclassifiable London percussionist and producer Chiminyo announces his long- awaited debut album "I AM PANDA", with a new single taken from the album called "Breathin'". This is by far his most radio friendly and commercial offering yet, and perfectly exemplifies Chiminyo's traversal into new...
A new project by Chicago-based drummer/producer Makaya McCraven. An addendum to his critically-acclaimed 2018 release Universal Beings, which The New York Times said "affirms the drummer and beatsmith's position as a major figure in creative music," Universal Beings E&F Sides presents fourteen new...
The planets align this October as the mighty Sun Ra Arkestra, under the direction of the maestro Marshall Allen, release their first studio album in over twenty years, ‘Swirling'. Recorded at Rittenhouse Soundworks in Philadelphia, the new recording represents the continuation of a heartfelt...
Josephine Davies continues to assert her unique presence across the crowded landscape of international jazz with ‘How Can We Wake?' from the acclaimed trio project that she has been developing since 2016 under the name of Satori. This latest iteration reunites her with two of the UK's most...
Six-panel, 4 CD digifile. Jazz Women - The best of four of a kind - Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. - Jazz Women - The Best Of Four Of A Kind by Various (CD)