Results for "Strut Records"

Flock: Flock II

by Chris May
October 11, 2024

Flock is composed of five of the most venturesome musicians in British jazz. Reeds and woodwind player Tamar Osborn, drummers and percussionists Bex Burch and Sarathy Korwar, and keyboard players Danalogue and Al MacSween. Separately and collaboratively, they have since the late 2010s given us landmark genre-crossing albums in bands including Emanative, The Comet Is Coming, ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Afro Futuristic Dreams

By Idris Ackamoor

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Side One: Afro Futuristic Dreams; Thank You God. Side Two: Police Dem; First Peoples. Side Three: Truth to Power; Re-Memory; Garland Rose. Side Four: Requiem for the Ancestors; Nice It Up.

Dolphin

By Gigi Masin

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Lee; London Nights; Love Theme; Dolphin; Sabena; Leo Theo; Viento Calido; Your Move.

Dollphin

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Lee; London Nights; Love Theme; Dolphin; Sabena; Leo Theo; Viento Calido; Your Move.

Message From Mozambique

By Plunky Nkabinde

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Struggle (Home); Soledad Brothers; Freedom Fighter; Make Your Own Revolution Now; Father Is Back; Nairobi / Chants.

Idris Ackamoor: Afro Futuristic Dreams

by Angelo Leonardi
October 20, 2023

Uno dei meriti dell'Afrofuturismo (e delle sue diramazioni musicali che includono Afrobeat, Spiritual jazz ed altro) è quello d'aver fatto conoscere, oltre i confini delle comunità afroamericane, artisti come Idris Ackamoor, leader da cinquant'anni del collettivo Pyramids. Com'è noto Chicago, San Francisco e Londra sono i poli di produzione musicale del movimento ed ...

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: Afro Futuristic Dreams

by Chris May
September 8, 2023

Idris Ackamoor paints on a big canvas, in vivid colours. Listening to the 2023 episode of his multi-decade Afrofuturist odyssey, there are times when he and The Pyramids stir memories of Fela Kuti's Afrika 70 and Egypt 80 bands. At other times, it is Sun Ra's Arkestra. Next up could be an unplugged Funkadelic. And there ...

Gigi Masin & Greg Foat: Dolphin

by Chris May
July 5, 2023

Dolphin is billed as a collaboration between a jazz musician, British keyboard player Greg Foat, and an ambientist-electronicist, Italian synthesizer player Gigi Masin. Depending on taste, you may find the album mellifluous and relaxing, or vacuous and inconsequential. Unintentionally but irrefutably, Foat and Masin's project highlights the unbridgeable disconnect between jazz and ambient. ...

JuJu: Message From Mozambique

by Chris May
March 17, 2023

There are many historic albums among the fifty or so titles released by the Strata-East label in the 1970s. But few have acquired the quasi-mythological stature of 1973's politically charged spiritual-jazz masterpiece Message From Mozambique by Bay Area tenor saxophonist Plunk Nkabinde and his band JuJu. The only disc to come close is Gil Scott-Heron and ...