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Radio & Podcasts

Yoko Ono, Martin Bisi, Fela Kuti, Sons Of Kemet And Others

by Lawrence Peryer
September 6, 2026

A wide-open hour: a new quartet session from Christer Bothén, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin opens things, and from there we range through Cibo Matto's take on a Yoko Ono song, brand new records from Laura Veirs, Martin Bisi, Cassie Watson Francillon, and the French trio Namas, a Fela Kuti cut from 1973, and Sons of Kemet closing it out. Free improvisation, harp, Afrobeat, post-jazz. Playlist Christer Bothén, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin “Chrysotile" ...

Live Review

Sons of Kemet / Ramakhandra at the Bluebird Theater

by Geoff Anderson
August 11, 2022

Sons of Kemet/Ramakhandra Bluebird Theater Denver, CO August 3, 2022 “Nebraska--It's Not for Everyone." That's one of the more unusual tourism campaigns out there. But it came to mind Wednesday night at the Sons of Kemet concert. To start with, the band's instrumentation is unusual: tenor sax, tuba, two drummers. No vocals (although some of their albums feature guest vocalists here and there). No chording instrument like a piano or guitar. Not exactly Top 40 ...

Radio & Podcasts

A Selection Of New Releases

by Bob Osborne
July 22, 2021

A selection of tracks from recent releases including music from the fourth album from drummer Andrés Elstein, cutting edge avant-garde playing from Joe O'Connor, Theo Carbo & Tim Green, and sampling and sculpting of sounds from Matias Riquelme. Then to the UK for new albums from Slowly Rolling Camera, and Sons of Kemet and to the USA for another Turnpike Diary from Tony Malaby and previews of two new releases from William Parker. Playlist Sons of Kemet “Think ...

Album Review

Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile

Read "Your Queen Is A Reptile" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
June 14, 2018

There is nothing quite like the Sons of Kemet. In a genre that struggles with the perception that it too often becomes mired in sameness and safety, this is a group that embraces the African roots of jazz while skirting the very essence of the genre. Eye-opening deviations come from unexpected places and in the case of Your Queen Is a Reptile, that source is London's “New School," or so-called “New British Invasion" in jazz. Including the likes of Kendrick ...

Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2018

by Ian Patterson
April 3, 2018

Brilliant Corners 2018 Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland March 3-10, 2018 Compared to Dublin or cities in the UK, Belfast is usually overlooked when jazz groups tour. When the likes of Wayne Shorter, Charles Lloyd, Ahmad Jamal, Keith Jarrett or Brad Mehldau come to Ireland it's usually a one-stop visit to Dublin and then away. Pat Metheny's November 2017 Dublin/Belfast gigs was the exception that proves the rule. In recent times actual ...

Album Review

Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile

Read "Your Queen Is A Reptile" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
March 19, 2018

Con il consueto ritardo (tempo tecnico di maturazione lo definirebbe qualcuno di più diplomatico) anche il mondo globalizzato del jazz si sta accorgendo del talento di Shabaka Hutchings. Chi bazzica infatti il jazz europeo più vivace non può non avere notato da tempo il sassofonista inglese, con i The Comet Is Coming, con Louis Moholo, con la Sun Ra Arkestra, magari con Mulatu Astatqe o Orlando Julius, a confermare l'approccio globale del musicista. Per non dire dello splendido lavoro a ...

Album Review

Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile

Read "Your Queen Is A Reptile" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 21, 2018

It is appropriate that this, British-based Sons of Kemet's third album, should be released under the Impulse banner. During its heyday, Impulse was the home of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders and as such was the chief platform for the cosmic/spiritual jazz movement of the 1960s and 1970s and that movement's demand for white-majority society's recognition of black culture and respect for black people. In 2018, the multi-racial Sons of Kemet, led by tenor saxophonist and composer Shabaka ...