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Harp, Beats & Dreams

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Seatime; Melting Timbers; Memento Mori; Only U <3; Until Tomorrow Continues; Despite Being In Love; Care To Care; Dream Language; Cascades; Meditation IV.

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Marysia Osu: Harp, Beats & Dreams

Read "Harp, Beats & Dreams" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 4, 2024

Who knows how the jazz harp paradigm might have evolved had the instrument's most adventurous twentieth-century player, Detroit-born Dorothy Ashby, lived beyond her premature passing in 1986. Since then, most American jazz harpists have stuck pretty closely to the neo-classical glissandos and block chords-based style established by Alice Coltrane. New York's Brandee Younger is among the ...

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Black Classical Music

By Yussef Dayes

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Black Classical Music; Afro Cubanism; Raisins Under The Sun; Rust; Turquoise Galaxy; The Light; Pon Di Plaza; Magnolia Symphony; Early Days; Chasing The Drum; Birds Of Paradise; Gelato; Marching Band; Crystal Palace Park; Presidential; Jukebox; Woman's Touch; Tioga Pass; Cowrie Charms.

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Ngo Ma

By Sibusile Xaba

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Agenda Remember; Birds (Of A Feather); City Lights; La Nna Mfana; Mgundgundlova; Ngo Ma; Out Of The World; Phew; Q&A; Tribute To Johnny Dyani; Wathint Imbokodo.

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Radio Sechaba

By Bokani Dyer

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Be Where You Are; Mogaetsho; Move On; State of the Nation; Tiya Mowa; Ke Nako; Picturesque; Spirit People; Victims of Circumstane; Amogelang; Ho Tla Loka; Resonance of Truth; You Are Home; Medu.

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IzangoMa: Ngo Ma

by Chris May
June 6, 2023

The first thing that needs to be said is: this is not a jazz album. Jazz is only one of many musical traditions, most of them South African, that coalesce to form IzangoMa's debut. The percussion-rich, horn-embellished, multi-layered blend weaves together kwaito, mbaqanga, township jazz, marabi, pantsula, mbube, Jamaican nyabhingi drumming, electronica and a whole lot ...

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Bokani Dyer: Radio Sechaba

Read "Radio Sechaba" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 30, 2023

Bokani Dyer has already established himself as one of the leading musical voices of his generation in South Africa. But with Radio Sechaba--the heralded multi-hyphenate's first release on aural arbiter Gilles Peterson's Brownswood imprint--he expands his voice, reach and notability. Synthesizing a set of broad influences and building sounds of possibility surrounding his homeland and a ...

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Could We Be More

By Sheila Maurice-Grey

Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Tojo; Blue Robe (Pt. I); Ewa Inu; Age Of Ascent; Dide O; Soul Searching; We Give Thanks; Those Good Times; Reprise; War Dance; Interlude; Home; Something’s Going On; Outro; Blue Robe (Pt. II).

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Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

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Kokoroko: Could We Be More

Read "Could We Be More" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
August 8, 2022

One of the features of the 2022 alternative London jazz scene is the incorporation of musical styles originating in Africa and the Caribbean, from whence a high proportion of prominent musicians on that scene trace their heritage. Not every band shares this African and/or Caribbean dimension but the majority do and it is one of the ...