Jazz Genre • Page 22

Heading to Chicago's Jazz Fest tomorrow, so I'm in a really jazzy mood this week.

Dean Martin and all the old crooners yesterday, Stan Getz today, I'm all over the place.

 

Awesome. I’ve been on a huge Getz/Gilberto kick the past week.

 

Philip Bailey's album from this year Love Will Find a Way is wonderful. He's in fantastic voice still and channeling Curtis all over it, and he has Christian McBride, Christian Scott, Chick Corea, Kamasi Washington and Robert Glasper on the record. Thank god for Verve still letting legends like him work.

 

Channeling Curtis and has the likes of Scott and Washington on it? I’m gonna be all over that.

 

This is pretty great

 

First listens to two really wonderful records today:

 

A new Jamie Branch album coming in October!

 

Still need to give her first one a listen

 

Anyone given the new Ashley Henry album a listen? Really fucking good stuff.

 

I did. I enjoyed it as well.

 

New PYJAEN album out today is good stuff.

 

Joe Armon-Jones has a new one out today too.

 

This past week I’ve been finally getting into Sons of Kemet, The Comet is Coming and Kamaal Williams and I’m fucking love it

Does anybody wanna throw me a few recs of some major records from the last few years I should hear? I’ll dive into the classics soon but it’s pretty intimidating, just want to get started with some recent albums

 

Some of my recent favorites.

Nubya Garcia - Nubya’s 5ive
Maisha - There is a Place
Binker and Moses - Journey to the Mountain of Forever
Joel Ross - Kingmaker
Jamie Branch - Fly or Fie
Nerija - Blume
Theon Cross - Fyah
SEED Ensemble - Driftglass
Sarah Tandy - Infection in the Sentence
Camilla George - The People Could Fly
Moses Boyd - Displaced Diasspora
Idris Ackamoor - An Angel Fell
Yazz Ahmed - La Sabotuese
Tenderlonious - The Shakedown
Amaro Freitas - Rasif
Damon Locks - Where Future Unfolds

 

This is perfect, thank you! Will report back as I work through em

 

I could give more in a while but that's a good list, imo the other Binker & Moses record Alive in the East? is the absolute best thing the LDN scene has produced and definitely my personal favorite recent jazz record

 

Have you checked out the new Binker Golding album that came out this past Friday? I unfortunately haven’t gotten around to it yet, but I always look forward to new music from him.

 

Not yet. His last one was cool but a lot more "free" than I was expecting, haven't returned to it much. Just added the newest one to apple music

 

I love how much music that whole scene puts out though, seems like there's always 3 or 4 records coming out from them

 

It’s really fucking good, yeah. But I’d say Theon Cross has put our the best album from the London scene and he did it with a fucking tuba haha

 

Other recs I’d add...

Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ancestral Recall
Marquis Hill - Modern Flows Pt 2
Alfa Mist - Structuralism

I’m sure there are others, just can’t think of them rn

 

That's totally fair and I love that record but the drumming on the other one combined with rhythm harp is transcendent for me

 

If you dig Kamaal Williams, make sure you check out Yussef Kamaal. It’s Kamaal and Yussef Dayes collab and it’s just as good as Kamaals solo stuff.

 

Being an ex-drummer (and I use “drummer” in the loosest possible use of the word haha), I always hear the drums first and yeah, Alive in the East? hooked me straight away. But there’s something about Theons way of playing and the sounds he creates with the tuba that sounds so fucking cool to me.

 

Man, if someone had told me this time last year that I’d immersed myself in jazz as much as I have and actually have a (kind of) conversation, I would have laughed at them!