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Tuff Times Never Last
By Kokoroko
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Never Lost; Sweetie; Closer To Me; My Father in Heaven; Idea 5 (Call My Name) (feat. LULU.);
Three Piece Suit (feat. Azekel); Time
and Time (feat. Demae); Da Du Dah; Together We Are; Just Can’t Wait; Over / Reprise.
Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last
by Frank Housh
Kokoroko's sophomore album is cool. Cool as the other side of the pillow, cool like floating on top of the deep blue ocean, cool like the Fonz. Kokoroko may be properly classified within the “Afrobeat" jazz subgenre which mixes West African rhythms with jazz harmony. Its sound also includes a heavy dose of “highlife," ...
Brilliant Corners 2025: Days 1-4
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners 2025 Black Box/Various Venues Belfast, N. IrelandFebruary 28-March 8, 2025 Thirteen is young for most things, smartphones, cars and your average household pet aside. Thirteen is young for jazz festivals too, but as jazz festivals go, Brilliant Corners qualifies as a precocious youth. Its programming, whilst musically inclusive and ...
Trish Clowes, Ross Stanley: Journey to Where
by Angelo Leonardi
Il jazz britannico contemporaneo non si esaurisce nel multiforme movimento londinese di Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Ashley Henry, Theon Cross, Kokoroko eccetera. Meno noti in Italia ma non meno interessanti sono i jazzmen legati al filone del mainstream jazz statunitense, come la sassofonista Trish Clowes e il pianista Ross Stanley, che da un decennio animano il ...
Boom Collective, Ruby Ruston, Greg Foat, Kokoroko, Chakalaka Jazz, And More
by Tony Poole
Tony Poole selects his favourite new releases and pre-releases on this 2-hour uninterrupted music-only edition. Playlist Gaetano Partipilo & Boom Collective “Something Broken" from MAST Studio Session 2024 (independent) 00:00 Ruby Ruston “Stapodia" single (22a Records) 06:53 Zoe Kypri “Holding You (radio edit) Chris Baxter Remix" single (independent) 14:14 Greg Foat “A Private Cosmos" ...
Vibration Black Finger, Caixa Cabo, Kokoroko, Raw Odoni, Cruisic, And More
by Tony Poole
Tony Poole selects his favourite tracks from the latest new releases and pre-releases. This week's featured artist is the London-based spiritual soul jazz collective Vibration Black Finger with their soon to be released third album Everybody Cryin' Mercy. Producer Lascelle Gordon provides another “complete listening experience" on the back of their last project from 2020, Can ...
Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story Of The UK Jazz Explosion
by Ian Patterson
Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story Of The UK Jazz Explosion André Marmot 424 Pages ISBN: 978-0-571-37448-9 Faber & Faber 2024 Anyone who has kept half an eye on the UK/London jazz scene since the turn of the century will likely be aware that jazz there has gone from being ...
Speakers Corner Quartet At Barbican Hall
by Chris May
Speakers Corner Quartet + Guests Barbican Hall Travels Over Feeling: The Music Of Arthur Russell London May 25, 2024 Introducing Travels Over Feeling: The Music Of Arthur Russell from the stage, Tom Lee, Arthur Russell's surviving partner, said, “There are probably more people here tonight than ever saw Arthur ...
Cassie Kinoshi: Letting The Sunshine In
by Chris May
Cassie Kinoshi, the acclaimed British composer and alto saxophonist, made her name as a founder member of the Afrobeat-inspired band Kokoroko and with her own ten-piece Seed Ensemble. Her work pushes social change, interrogating inequality and injustice, mainly through instrumental music, occasionally with lyrics, and always with invention and singularity. Seed's sophomore album, gratitude (International Anthem, ...
