Jazz Articles about Xhosa Cole

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Radio & Podcasts

Xhosa Cole, Archipelago, Neil Charles, And More

by Colin Muirhead
October 4, 2025

Featuring music by acts performing at this year's Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, including Xhosa Cole, Archipelago, Neil Charles, and the John Pope Quintet. Playlist Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall “Carnatic Stream" from Triangles (New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings) 00:00 Archipelago “Waiting" from Echoes to the Sky (New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings) 08:48 Hannah Marshall “c5" from Clouds (Self Released) 15:36 Paul Taylor “Via III" from Via (New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings) 18:17 ...

Album Review

Xhosa Cole: On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)

Read "On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
February 1, 2025

Xhosa Cole has moved forward constantly, since winning the 2018 BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year award. He has released two studio albums: K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us (Stoney Lane Records, 2021) featuring saxophonist, Soweto Kinch and pianist, Reuben James and Ibeji (Stoney Lane Records, 2022), featuring seven percussionists with African roots. This 2025 release has Cole with his quartet during their 38-date spring tour of the UK in 2023 playing the music of Thelonious Monk. Cole is ...

Radio & Podcasts

Xhosa Cole, Nicola Miller & Art Jackson’s Atrocity

by Maurice Hogue
December 30, 2024

There's a seemingly endless pool of great saxophonists that have emerged from Birmingham, England's scene---Andy Hamilton, Soweto Kinch & Shabaka Hutchings to name a few--with the latest, Xhosa Cole whose career is taking off. Named the 2018 BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award, Cole has gained much attention, and his third release On A Modern Genius Vol. 1 focused on the music of Thelonious Monk will no doubt boost the interest further. It's the feature recording in this ...

Album Review

Loz Speyer's Inner Space: Live in Leipzig

Read "Live in Leipzig" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 8, 2024

Loz Speyer, a British trumpeter and composer known for his inventive blend of jazz traditions and free improvisation, leads the quintet Inner Space through its inaugural release. With a background spanning a wide range of influences within the jazz realm, Speyer channels these into compositions that allow each band member room for dynamic improvisation. In Live in Leipzig, recorded in the historic city during a well-received concert, Speyer's ensemble delivers a set marked by a delicate balance between ...

Album Review

Paul Dunmall: Bright Light A Joyous Celebration

Read "Bright Light A Joyous Celebration" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 23, 2024

While the opener suggests a blowing session from veteran British saxophonist Paul Dunmall, as good as that promises to be, the reality is better still. Joining him is a starry cast drawn from succeeding generations, with the addition of American drummer Hamid Drake. With the drummer touring in the UK. Dunmall took the opportunity to renew a friendship that stretches back almost two decades, one first heard on the fiery Peace And Joy (Slam, 2006). Alongside them in the studio ...

Album Review

Balimaya Project: When The Dust Settles

Read "When The Dust Settles" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
August 12, 2023

Formed in 2019 by London-based drummer and percussionist Yahael Camara Onono, the sixteen-piece Balimaya Project blends traditional West African Mandé music with modal jazz and other sounds out of modern Black London. The ensemble's closest comparator, albeit at some remove, is the veteran Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab who, in the 1980s, were hugely popular at home and abroad. But Baobab's repertoire, although it included Mandé folk music, was based chiefly on the Wolof tradition. There is more ...

Radio & Podcasts

Xhosa Cole, Lakecia Benjamin, J.D.Hive, Jason Yaeger & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 18, 2023

A playlist built around the work of impressive emerging saxophonists (Lakecia Benjamin, Xhosa Cole, Jason Marshall, and Alex Hitchcock), and guitarists (Ant Law and David Doruzka). Together with a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut, the reissue of an Acid Jazz classic, and much more, this is an hour of music that should keep you happy and full engaged.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Mother Earth “Stoned Woman" Stoned Woman ...