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Bringing together the colossal talents of pianist Brad Mehldau, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Peter Bernstein with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Bill Stewart – MTB is the reconvening of a group of jazz greats from the Criss Cross [...]
After successfully pivoting away from the saxophone and launching a new phase of his career with a bag of full of flutes and an exploratory and spiritual new sound, Shabaka is back with another albeit shorter helping of meditative tracks. [...]
With the backdrop of the beautiful Hackney Church, Grammy award winning London jazztronica duo Blue Lab Beats storm through a triumphant set. Expanded to a full band line-up, they’re on top form and seem genuinely humbled by the large and [...]
On Daughter of a Temple, New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised singer Ganavya offers up cultural fusion of spiritual jazz, Indian traditions and devotional music that is rooted in collaboration and a free-flowing approach. Many of the tracks feature notable collaborators. On [...]
With Keeping Company, Bill Laurance and Michael League release their second set of duo pieces, centred on Laurance’s piano and on League’s fretless bass and oud. Coming hot on the heels, of Where You Wish You Were, their acclaimed 2023 [...]
Seamlessly merging jazz, electronica and hip-hop – celebrated drummer, producer and composer Richard Spaven delivers an immersive nine-track set. Sole Subject, his sixth album as a solo artist shifts between atmospheric electronics, punchy beats and jazzy melodies with an assured [...]
Danish duo Svaneborg Kardyb specialise in a particular brand of Nordic jazz, marrying the lilting and slow evolving piano, Wurlitzer and synth work of Nikolaj Svaneborg with the detailed percussion-work laid down by drummer Jonas Kardyb. Drawing on everything from [...]
On his third outing for the Blue Note label, alto-Sax maestro Immanuel Wilkins serves up his most ambitious record to date. Blues Blood is an expansive suite of tracks woven together by themes of personal and ancestral memory and above [...]
The release of Dance, No One’s Watching sees London quintet Ezra Collective riding the crest of a wave of popularity that started building in 2018. Their last album Where I’m Meant to Be took them to places few thought a [...]
Four years after their debut, Paradise Cinema return with another genre blending project on ‘returning, dream’. This eight-track set features many of the hallmarks of that 2020 album, with dense West-African polyrhythms, cycling drones and a penchant for blending sounds [...]
