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Nicola Conte
To comprehend fully Nicola Conte's music originality and sensibility we should refer, together with his productions, to the unavoidable Fez's activity, a cultural movement founded by Conte himself in Bari in the early nineties. A real melting pot of several creative musicians, who first of all are friends and grew up together with the same intellectual, music and political similarities. Cultural trouble-makers, emotional dreamers, Jazz enthusiasts of the fifties and sixties, deep "nouvelle vague" connoisseurs, compulsive vinyl collectors, design and graphic experts, people crazy for cultural beat and books written by revolutionaries like Jean Paul Sartre and Boris Vian. The atmosphere at Fez seemed to be the same detectable at Tabou, the legendary "caveau" in Saint Germain de Pres, described by Vian himself
More Winners: Nubya Garcia, Nicola Conte, Visioneers, Amanda Whiting, & More
by Tony Poole
Tony Poole selects twelve more tracks as part two of his Favourite Albums of 2024. Check out part one Jazz First's Favourite Albums Of 2024... Dance, No One's Watching! Playlist Nubya Garcia “In Other Words, Living" from Odyssey (Concord Jazz) Nicola Conte “Life Forces (feat. Zara McFarlane) Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Version)" from Umoja (Joaquin ...
Salin, Azymuth, Gerardo Frisina & Toco, Heavy Hitters, And More
by Tony Poole
Tony Poole selects his favourite new releases and pre-releases. Playlist Electric Kif + Cosmic Collective + Cosmic Collective “As We Go" single (Cosmic Collective Music) Mama Terra “Chameleon" from Chameleons: Live Interpretations of Herbie Hancock (Acid Jazz Records) Gerardo Frisina & Toco “Deixa Passar (ft. Luzia Dvorek)" single (Schema Records) Nicola Conte “Love From ...
Marcos Valle, Nicola Conte, Paul Murphy, Ezra Collective, And More
by Tony Poole
Tony Poole selects his favourite new releases and pre-releases. The featured artist is Mercury Prize winning Ezra Collective and their new album Dance, No One's Watching. The YouTube video (scroll down) is “Shaking Body" included on the album and performed live at a studio session for BBC Sounds. Playlist The Boom Yeh “Keep Right ...
Umoja
By Nicola Conte
Label: Far Out Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Arise; Dance Of Love And Peace Part 1; Life Forces; Flying Circles; Freedom & Progress; Soul Of The People; Heritage; Into The Light Of Love; Umoja Unity; Dance Of Love & Peace Part. 2; Arise (Instrumental); Into The Light Of Love (Instrumental).
Various Artists: Glucklich V1: A Collection Of Brazilian Flavours From The Past And Present
by Chris May
Collectors of Brazilian popular music from the mid and late twentieth century, who do not have the time or resources to visit the country for a spell of crate digging, can turn to European and Japanese DJs who do the digging for them, releasing their finds on compilation albums. In 2023, most of those crates have ...
Nicola Conte: Umoja
by Chris May
Nicola Conte continues on his journey from acid-jazz bohemian to spiritual-jazz sophisticate with this immaculately hip album, fronted on half of its tracks by London-based soul-jazz divas Zara McFarlane and Bridgette Amofah. Conte began his trajectory with the acid-jazz template Jet Sounds (Schema, 2000), boosted it with Jet Sounds Revisited (Schema, 2002) and, after ...
Meeco: Keeping It Real
by Chris May
The Berlin-based producer and composer Meeco has a niche but devoted following, built up over a series of romantically inclined and elegant albums released between 2009 and 2014. The discs, which have pronounced Latin flavours, are Amargo Mel (Connector, 2009), Perfume E Caricias (Connector, 2010), Beauty Of The Night (Connector, 2012) and Souvenirs Of Love (Double ...
From George Coleman to Meeco: Ten Overlooked Classics
by Chris May
The only thread running through this installment of Building A Jazz Library is that of unsung quality. No particular artist is spotlighted, nor any particular genre. There are simply ten, randomly selected albums, recorded in the US and Europe between 1953 and 2021, which show jazz off at its finest, but which, for one reason or ...
Joe Henderson, Bill Evans, Jim Hall: Buried Treasure from Germany's MPS Label
by Chris May
Between its founding in 1968 and sale in 1983, the original incarnation of the recently revived German label MPS—the initials stand for Musik Produktion Schwarzwald (Music Production Black Forest)—notched up around five hundred releases. Some were recorded in the US by American musicians, many more were recorded in Europe and featured bands made up of European ...
