Led by Czech-born guitarist Honza Kourimsky, Mahuki is a funky, versatile ensemble whose debut CD recalls everything from Ezra Collective to Balkan and Eastern European folk music. Gratitude is a fusion record that deftly hops between musical influences, from synchronised [...]
British guitarist Ant Law joins forces here with Milan-born Turkish-British singer Brigitte Beraha for a short but emotionally potent set. Law is a stalwart of the UK jazz scene, but this album represents a couple of significant musical departures for [...]
Lakecia Benjamin’s new set, as the name suggests, is a live re-tooling of music from her much lauded, triple Grammy-nominated 2023 album Phoenix (Whirlwind Recordings). Riffing on the music from that set, she weaves in additional influences, brings on guests [...]
On No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin, bassist and band leader Meshell Ndegeocello distils the personal and artistic influence that James Baldwin has had on her into a seventeen-track set that reverberates with the themes of the writer’s [...]
On this unearthed live recording, Heartcore records delivers a time capsule, transporting the listener to the heady days of 1990s live jazz in New York. Kurt Rosenwinkel delighted audiences every Tuesday during an eight-year residency at Smalls club. This extraordinary [...]
UK afro-jazz fusion outfit TC & The Groove Family are releasing We Have Each Other on 7 June. It is a fiery new EP that builds on the heady brew of influences that went into their debut album, First Home. [...]
Originally released in 1985, Song of the Motherland is a dub-poetry album released by spoken word artist AnkAnum, formerly known as Anum Iyapo. It has been regarded in some circles as a lost classic, and from listening to the heady [...]
On Fragments, German double bassist and composer Tabea Kind (b.1999) serves up an intoxicating and immersive debut, rich in emotion and melody and imbued with a sense of wandering exploration. Tabea Kind originally hails from Karlsruhe in Germany. Her teachers [...]
NikNak (Nicole Raymond) has been turning heads for a few years with her distinctive approach to electronic music and turntablism. On this, her fourth album, she weaves an Afro-futurist opus from a multitude of influences. Imbued with her interests in [...]
Pianist and composer Daan Herweg delights on this tight ten-track set that fuses jazz tradition, touches of classical piano and a forward-looking approach. Herweg, a prolific figure on the Dutch and European jazz scenes as well aa a teacher at [...]
