Results for "Strut Records"

Flock

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Expand; Prepare To Let Go; Sounds Welcome; It’s Complicated; What Purpose; Murmuration; Bold Dream; My Resonance; How Many Are One; Fully Breathed.

Lanquidity (2 x CD Edition)

By Sun Ra

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lanquidity; Where Pathways Meet; That's How I Feel; Twin Stars Of Thence; There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of).

Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: First Movement; Second Movement; Third Movement; Fourth Movement; Fifth Movement.

If You Will

By Flora Purim

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: If You Will; This Is Me; 500 Miles High; A Flor Da Vida; Newspaper Girl; Dandara; Zahuroo; Dois + Dois = Tres; Lucidez

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 ...

Flora Purim: If You Will

by Ian Patterson
June 4, 2022

Everyone loves a great comeback, and, after a lengthy hiatus, Flora Purim obliges with If You Will, the Brazilian's first studio album since Flora's Song (Narada, 2005). Released to coincide with her 80th birthday, If You Will is a somewhat nostalgic celebration that polishes a few old gems from a recording career that began--under military dictatorship--with ...

Bennie Maupin & Adam Rudolph: Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef

by Chris May
May 31, 2022

Had the multi-reed player Yusef Lateef still been alive in 2020, he would have been celebrating his 100th birthday. Sadly, Lateef passed seven years earlier. But 93 years is a good span for a jazz musician, especially one of Lateef's generation, who came of age in time to cut his professional teeth in swing bands.

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 ...

Sun Ra: Lanquidity (2 x CD Edition)

by Chris May
February 2, 2022

When it comes to Sun Ra, the elephant in the room--or perhaps the intergalactic space frigate orbiting your sound system--is how many musicians in the band were bombed out on acid during a typical recording session? By all accounts, Ra ran a tight spaceship and drugs, mind expanding or numbing, were strictly off limits. Then again, ...

Freedom Fables

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Morning Light; Tittle Tattle; Ma Wonka; Buckle Up; Keeper; If Only; Flow; 24-7; Wipe Away Tears; If Only; If I Knew.