Jazz

James Brown and The Famous Flames for the label King, third presentation : Think! (1960). This album not only helped to define the nature of the soul, but highlighted the style intense, passionate and innovative James Brown in those years. In this new...

Jacob Gorensteyn is an Israeli saxophonist and producer. Born in the USSR in 1980, his family emigrated to Israel when he was a child, with Jacob picking up the saxophone soon after. A long time member and one of the creative forces behind the well-known...

JACOB COLLIER / DJESSE VOLUME 4 / Crafted in the famed studio beside his London bedroom, as well as various corners of the globe, Djesse has explored Jacob Collier's wildest dreams, and Vol. 4 brings the series to a most dramatic and thrilling conclusion...

Jackie McLean - "Tippin' The Scales (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)" - Recorded in 1962 (but not released until 1979), Jackie McLean's album, Tippin' the Scales, found the Blue Note stalwart leading a quartet with Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, and Art Taylor...

I've been focused on who I am in my music, but now I'm exploring where I am," Alfa Mist says. "I'm asking: how did I get here?" This is the journeying question that underpins Alfa's fifth album, Variables. Traversing luscious, big band swing,...

It's Nation Time: African Visionary Music features poetry by Imamu Amiri Baraka, one of the most respected writers of his generation, as well as an ensemble cast of musicians including Lonnie Smith, Gary Bartz, James Mtume, Gwendolyn Guthrie, Reggie...

It's impossible to talk about this album without acknowledging the spectre of death that hangs over it - not only is it the third entry in Strata-East Records' Dolphy Series, a collection of archival recordings from some of the label's close associates...

It's hard to tell on first listen, but the L.A.-based Gendel made every sound on his new album using his alto saxophone. "Pass If Music" is hardly a solo jazz album, though. Rather, the musician harnesses his horn in service of ambient tones and...

It's hard to believe: in her mid-20s, Andrea Motis is already a jazz superstar in Spain and far beyond. In 2011, Quincy Jones became enthusiastic about the young lady on trumpet and vocals. Andrea?s mentor was bassist, tenor saxophonist and celebrated...

It's easy to imagine that both the Jazz and the Rhythm'n Blues fans have eagerly awaited this Atlantic LP. The Ertegun brothers, highly praised producers for the early LP phase of these styles, were the catalysts of his creativity for Ray Charles, the...

It's been a little over ten years since Hailu Mergia re-emerged on the international music scene. Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began...

It's a year no one will forget, a year in which the global lockdown was shared by all, and yet experienced in a million different ways. For Chris Potter, a musician who has been on the road continuously since the 1990s, whose raison d'etre is playing...