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Balimaya Project: When The Dust Settles

Read "When The Dust Settles" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
August 12, 2023

Formed in 2019 by London-based drummer and percussionist Yahael Camara Onono, the sixteen-piece Balimaya Project blends traditional West African Mandé music with modal jazz and other sounds out of modern Black London. The ensemble's closest comparator, albeit at some remove, is the veteran Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab who, in the 1980s, were hugely popular at home ...

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Xhosa Cole, Lakecia Benjamin, J.D.Hive, Jason Yaeger & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 18, 2023

A playlist built around the work of impressive emerging saxophonists (Lakecia Benjamin, Xhosa Cole, Jason Marshall, and Alex Hitchcock), and guitarists (Ant Law and David Doruzka). Together with a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut, the reissue of an Acid Jazz classic, and much more, this is an hour of music that should keep you happy and full ...

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Ibeji

By Xhosa Cole

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Doo-shima; C—L—A—V-E—; Andy's Shuffle; Jazz is About; Hear The; Dance of Ancestra; Masks-Rituals-Ancestors; Our Search For; Mark Skit #1; IG Live 20-04-2021; Native Tongues; CDC; Beat-9.wav; Double Displacement; Mark Skit #2; All Roads; AAC; Alhamdulilah; Ibeji.

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Xhosa Cole: Ibeji

by Karl Ackermann
November 13, 2022

Few places on the global jazz scene are enjoying the enthusiastic resurgence of the genre more than the UK. Names that are becoming more familiar—Binker Golding, Nubya Garcia, Idris Rahman, Shabaka Hutchings and others—have triggered something of a youth movement. Emerging in that group is yet another top-notch saxophonist, Xhosa Cole. Cole's sophomore release, Ibeji is ...

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Nala Sinephro, John Zorn, Bugpowder, Xhosa Cole & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 1, 2022

Highlights from the European jazz scene plus a special focus on Ornette Coleman's direct and indirect inspiration of many contemporary musicians and on highly personal debut albums. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme" 0:00 Theorem of Joy “Atoll" L'hiver (Déluge) 0:16 Host talks 6:16 Mario Rom's Interzone “What You Say?" Eternal ...

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K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us

By Xhosa Cole

Label: Stoney Lane Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Zoltan; Blues Connotation; Manhattan; Played Twice; On A Misty Night; What’s New; Untitled Boogaloo.

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Xhosa Cole: K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us

Read "K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
August 14, 2021

When tenor saxophonist Xhosa Cole won the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year prize in 2018, Britain was introduced to a young player with formidable technique and a solid grasp of the post-John Coltrane African American tradition. Cole was then little known outside Birmingham, his hometown in England's Midlands, and he had developed independently of ...

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I Went This Way

By Rachel Musson

Label: 577 Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Start; Matched Up; Syncope; For Pauline; A Note.

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Alex Clarke Quartet: Mirage

by Chris May
December 15, 2020

The bi-annual Young Jazz Musician competition was launched by Britain's public service broadcaster, the BBC, in 2014. As with all arts awards, the final selection tends to be a lottery, with the judges tasked with picking a winner from among five close-matched contestants. 2020 was no exception. The final was televised on November 22 and the ...

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Rachel Musson: I Went This Way

Read "I Went This Way" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 21, 2020

Let's agree that, by a consensus of one, Debbie Sanders recital of saxophonist Rachel Musson's thought-through and through-read play-by- metaphoric-play/lecture on improvisation gets annoying as all hell so quickly that one may find oneself searching madly for a bonus instrumental version. But the music on saxophonist Musson's I Went This Way is an ambitious, teasingly ambiguous ...