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Article: Album Review

Sam Gendel: Cookup

by Scott Gudell
May 13, 2023

Saxophonist Sam Gendel has sent out an invitation to an unusual sonic Cookup. So what is he serving? Who will be there? Will beat poets merge with experimental musicians in a smoky jazz grotto? Will it be a cryptic musical labyrinth or a collection of meandering songs? Is it a transcription of ancient African organic rhythms ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Camilla Battaglia, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Ben Wendel, Brad Allen Williams & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 18, 2023

Los Angeles and New York are the two poles of this playlist documenting the vibrancy of these two scenes, and their cross-pollination, including through a sample from the iconic Wattstax Benefit Concert, a dive into new releases by Colorfield Records, a jazz look at the Erykah Badu's and Kendrick Lamar's songbook, and the reimagining of Pharoah ...

Article: Live Review

Big Ears Festival 2023

by Mark Sullivan
April 17, 2023

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, Tennesse March 30-April 2, 2023 The second full edition after the pandemic found the Big Ears Festival still growing in attendance. Organizers responded by increasing the number of venues, including new ones like the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and ones that had not been used for some time, ...

Article: Interview

Voision Xi: Lost For Words, Found In Sounds

by Jiaowei Hu
March 5, 2023

Voision Xi has been taking steps from behind the scenes to centre stage. Starting out as a program coordinator at China's multi-faceted jazz business company JZ Music, she has swiftly risen to be one of the most active jazz vocalists in the country. Warmth and the simplest joy can be found in her singing, with no ...

Song of the Day

Anywhere (featuring Meshell Ndegeocello)

February 5, 2023

Album: Cookup
By Sam Gendel
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 3:33

Album

Quality Over Opinion

By Louis Cole

Label: Brainfeeder
Released: 2022
Track listing: Quality Over Opinion; Dead Inside Shuffle; Not Needed Anymore; Shallow Laughter; Bitches; Message; Failing in a Cool Way; Disappear; I’m Tight; True Love; Planet X; Let Me Snack; Forgetting; Park Your Car on My Face; Don’t Care; Laughing in Her Seep; Outer Moat Behavior; When; Let It Happen; Little Piano Thing.

Article: Interview

Tom Skinner: The Son Of Kemet Shines A Light

by Chris May
November 8, 2022

Tom Skinner has been a vital presence on the alternative London jazz scene for close on twenty years. Yet, remarkably, only now in November 2022 is the drummer and composer releasing his first album under his own name. Voices Of Bishara features Skinner alongside four friends and fellow radicals: tenor saxophonists Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Chelsea Carmichael, Takuya Kuroda, James Taylor Quartet, OHMA & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 30, 2022

We are back with another set list chockful of exciting new and upcoming albums, from the cinematic atmospheres of the James Taylor Quartet and the mysterious Louis Fontane, to the explorations of Sam Gendel or Hailey Niswanger's and Mia Garcia's OHMA; from the physchedelic journeys of Wax Machine and Kalaha, to the sounds of London's Total ...

Album

Fresh Bread

By Sam Gendel

Label: Leaving Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Eternal Loop; Waraku3; Junk Theem; Alto Voices; Shrimpo; Miss U Sonny; Cruzin Wit; Misty; Lilriffriff; Transparent Background; They B All Like; Infant Eyes (Live In Japan); Wwaasshh; P&P; Roomba; Nara Deer; Shells, Tube and Guitar; Satin Doll (Live Online); Sometimes I Feel So Good; Himalayan Salt Add; 06_Tape_Tiger; Semi-Silent Way: Iguana Queen; Iguana King; Steel String; Mourning Dove; Oriental Folk Song; Impressions Blues; When I Am Laid In Earf; Ugly Beauty; Waraku2 4:02; 干し芋; Godblessthechild; Acordeón; Broke Stick:Sloth; Wo Ee O; Taxi; Macaw; Bird Of Paradise; Skip; Sustain; Fractl; Twinkle Toes; No. 5; Unforgettable Riff; Rep; Drunken Squeezebox; Coyotes; Champs Elysées; Homestlys; LilRaffRaff.

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's 2021 Sonic Delights

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2021

Jazz is not a competitive sport and “Best Ofs" are misnomers. End of the year listicles have no bearing on the artistic standing of the albums they include, or on those they neglect, just like a five star review doesn't make the album it graces any better than it already is. But, apparently, humans ...