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Flock: Flock

by Chris May
May 7, 2022

One of the strengths of the alternative jazz scene which has grown in London since around 2016 is the interconnectivity of its players. Everyone knows each other and ad hoc bands constantly come together. Flock is the latest such conclave and it is something of a supergroup. On this its first album--others are ...

Tamar Osborn: From Kalakuta To Collocutor: New Directions In Jazz

by Chris May
October 12, 2020

She has been likened to Gil Evans, Fela Kuti, Pharoah Sanders, Bismillah Khan and Mulatu Astatke, and the traditions represented by those musicians are all to be heard in the music of baritone saxophonist and composer Tamar Osborn. Osborn's aesthetic, however, is her own, and her band, Collocutor, is among the most distinctive on the British ...

Vibes From The Tribe

By Emanative

Label: Steve Reid Foundation
Released: 2019
Track listing: A Side: Vibes From The Tribe. B Side: Version Vibes.

Nat Birchall: Obeah Man

by Chris May
July 8, 2019

Welcome to the latest analog-era time warp... the vinyl revival has rebirthed the 45rpm seven-inch jazz single. The format faded away in the 1960s. Even back then, chart hits such as Stan Getz's “Desafinado" (Verve, 1962) were freak events, but before the coming of album playing FM radio stations, an edited version of an album track ...

Emanative & Phil Ranelin: Vibes From The Tribe

by Chris May
July 3, 2019

The Tribe referred to here was a musicians' cooperative in jny: Detroit, Michigan, active from 1972-1977. It was co-founded by trombonist Phil Ranelin and saxophonist Wendell Harrison and was equal parts band, record label and community project. Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave was among the members. The organization had close affinities with jny: Chicago's Association for the Advancement ...

Infinite Spirit Music: Live Without Fear

by Chris May
March 11, 2019

Britain's Jazzman Records has form when it comes to spiritual jazz. Its series Spiritual Jazz: Modal, Esoteric and Deep Jazz, now one release away from its tenth volume, has made accessible again some of the most worthwhile but near-lost African American music of the 1970s. The label also supports modern day British musicians. Stand out home-grown ...

Earth

By Emanative

Label: Jazzman Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Dawn Child (Sunrise); Heaven’s Mirror; Ìyáàmi; Spice Route Suite; Sandhyavandanam; Egosystem (Solar Noon); Reflection; New Day; Heaven’s Mirror (Reprise); Minute’s To Midnight For This Planet; Raga Requiem (Dusk).

Chris May's Best Releases of 2018

by Chris May
December 16, 2018

After decades in the shadow of its American parent, 2018 is the year in which British jazz is finally coming of age. A growing community of London-based musicians is emerging with a unique aesthetic which reflects both the Caribbean and African musical heritages of the majority of its vanguard players and also such locally created styles ...

Maisha: There Is A Place

by Chris May
November 1, 2018

The London jazz scene, which is in 2018 more active and characterful than it has been since the jazz-dance movement of the 1980s, offers up another jewel with this debut physical-release by spiritual-jazz septet Maisha. The band, led by drummer Jake Long, surfaced in 2016 with the download-only live album Welcome To A New Welcome (Jazz ...