Jazz

'Ilmiliekki Quartet from Helsinki return with their new self-titled album on We Jazz Records on 11 February 2022. The group, including Verneri Pohjola (trumpet), Tuomo Prattala (piano), Antti Lotjonen (bass) and Olavi Louhivuori (drums) is a mainstay in...

Illegal Crowns - "Illegal Crowns" - Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Beno?t Delbecq (piano), Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, flugelhorn)1. The No-Nosed Puppet 2. Brushes 3. Blood and Sand 4. Two Blue Circles 5. Extemporize An Untidy Conclusion 6...

Ike Quebec's aptly titled 1961 album Heavy Soul was a soul jazz masterclass with the tenor saxophonist joined by Freddie Roach (organ), Milt Hinton (bass) and Al Harewood (drums). Ike's robust horn conjures a variety of moods from up-tempo swingers to...

Ike Quebec - Bossa Nova Soul Samba Label: DOL RE-ISSUE Genre: Jazz, Latin Style: Bossa Nova, Samba - recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Blue Note label. It was Quebec's final recording before his death in January 1963. Ike Quebec - tenor...

If you're in need of a musical vacation, try checking in for Live at The Last Hotel. The latest from John Covelli and The Hard Bop Messengers is a jazzy getaway that takes you to a time and place where everyone is hip, and everything is happening. It's...

If ever a moment in history called for the caustic, corrosive rantings of guitarist-composer-poet Todd Clouser and the abstract grooves of his combustible beat-skronk band Magnet Animals, it's this one. With our collective headspaces dizzied by a nearly...

If being the founder and chairman of Third World Press Organisation - the largest independent black-owned publishers - wasn't enough for activist and poet Haki R Madhubuti, he is also credited with a lesser-known yet remarkable music career. As the...

If being the founder and chairman of Third World Press Organisation - the largest independent black-owned publishers - wasn't enough for activist and poet Haki R Madhubuti, he is also credited with a lesser-known yet remarkable music career. As the...

Iconic Sßmi - Norwegian folk artist Mari Boine is known as genre-bending trailblazer with a taste for jazz, folk, rock, and world. Returning with a new album after five years, she has again found something completely different inside her than anything...

Iconic pianist/composer Fred Hersch was an early adopter of new technologies and new ways forward when the pandemic hit in early 2020. But he's also been among the most eager to return to live performance and collaboration now that life has begun to...

Icelandic pianist Anna Gr?ta Sigur?ard?ttir moved to Stockholm in 2014. The following year, she and Stockholm-based guitarist Max Schultz met while playing with H?kan Brostr÷m's big band, New Places Orchestra. Discovering their mutual interest in the...

I Plan To Stay A Believer is the definitive document of William Parker's The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield project, featuring fully charged extensions & expansions - both music & text - of selections from the soul music legend's immortal songbook by an...