Some excellent Danish jazz I just happened across. They just released a double album (25 songs) and it's pushing all the right nordic buttons for me.
I don't listen to Jazz much but sometimes I do find myself in the rabbithole of watching New Orleans street Hot Jazz videos. Tuba Skinny rocks.
loved this one - the opener and closer especially. the spoken-word/half-rap that he does on it is generally SO hit and miss for me in jazz but it works great here. it's hard to walk that line of not just doing bad rap or bad slam poetry over good jazz but he nails it for me.
This feels kinda like the culmination of Locks' work so far - he's walked the line I just mentioned well and not-so-well over his career but this one works so well. Mostly samples apparently, big Dilla vibes, but still belongs in this thread I think
Hi friends. Some recent albums I’ve been digging. Also, I want to plug our lovely forum’s “album of the week” club. It works like a book club but for albums. We switch every week. They usually rule and we get some great obscure picks from time to time. Hoping to get more discussion there so feel free to join. Chorus.fm Record of the Week Club • forum.chorus.fm
Roy Ayers passed away... Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer behind Everybody Loves the Sunshine, dies aged 84 | Music | The Guardian
Made a thread for new Stereolab Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film (May 23, 2025) • forum.chorus.fm
Teo’s Bag: Constructing Bitches Brew : Aquarium Drunkard Paywalled article but the gist is Teo was a fucking genius and there are some extremely cool unused outtakes from the BB sessions: and this is pretty well known but always worth reiterating: there's no un-edited masters of what was spliced up to become BB because Teo edited the MASTER reels with a razor and tape. so that's all that exists of those sessions other than what's on the record. wild stuff and this is an attempted reconstruction of the album from those outtakes. cool, but not much else