Remembered : Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone was one of those characters that seemed to have stepped out of an E.L. Doctorow novel, or an Our Gang comedy. Playing Tin Pan Alley shuffles and ragtime…
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Track: Abdullah Ibrahim – Dreamtime
In his 85th year and still writing vital music, Abdullah Ibrahim, a true giant of the golden age of Jazz, releases Dreamtime, the lead track from his first album in…
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Meet: Hackney Colliery Band, ahead of their Collaborations Volume One album release
They’ve achieved an awful lot already, have the Hackney Colliery Band, but it looks like the release of their new album – Collaborations Volume One, out June 7th will take…
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Track: Georgia Anne Muldrew – When the fOnk radiates
West Coast singer, songwriter and producer Georgia Anne Muldrow has announced her new album will be a collection of astral instrumentals called VWETO II, and from it she’s released a…
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See: Oscar Jerome reveals new visuals for Misty Head / Sunny Street
Ahead of his dates with Kamasi Washington at the end of the month, and following on from the announcement of his biggest show to date at Heaven in London on…
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Track: Crumb – Ghostride plus tour dates
If you’re in the mood this evening for a leisurely, almost lounge-esque track to ease you into the upcoming weekend, Brooklyn collaborators Crumb is exactly the easy, relaxed group of artists…
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Track: Blue Lab Beats – Hi There
Mixing up jazz, hip-hop and electronica served Blue Lab Beats (aka producer NK-OK and multi-instrumentalist Mr DM) well on their debut album Xover, as it topped the UK jazz charts…
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Track: The Quiet Temple – The Last Opium Den (On Earth), plus new album news
Duke Garwood and Rich Machin have put together a musical collective under the name of The Quiet Temple, using a rolling cast of sidemen taken from the likes of Soulsavers,…
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Track: Abdullah Ibrahim – Jabula
Legendary South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has shared a track ‘Jabula’ from his forthcoming album ‘The Balance’, out via Gearbox Records on June 28th. At the grand old age…
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New Music: Idle Kyle – Twisted Attention (EP)
The brittle, delicate arpeggiated piano of ‘Grounded’, the first track off Philadelphia’s Idle Kyle‘s EP “Twisted Attention”, serves notice that there is something quite unique ahead. It is a track…
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