Tag: acoustic jazz
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Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box video – Robert Glasper and Taylor McFerrin
Blue Note jazz pianist Robert Glasper joins Taylor McFerrin and Derrick Hodge in reinterpreting Radiohead – and the results are unexpectedly impressive “What happens when you take one artist, one mic, one iconic recording studio and give them one chance to show their raw talent?” That’s the rather enigmatic mission statement behind the 1 Mic […]
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Song For The Open Road video – Kairos 4tet and Omar
Websites Kairos 4tet Naim Jazz What an unlikely pairing – big-haired saxophonist Adam Waldmann with über-chilled soulman Omar. Rumour has it they met at the 2011’s MOBO Awards, where Waldmann was collecting the gong for Best Jazz Act. Two years later we have Song For The Open Road, a track that’s a foretaste to Everything […]
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Jazz FM Presents Blue Note Legends album preview – various artists
This double CD explores the breadth of work by Blue Note’s past and present greats Blue Note’s music conjures up images of acoustic jazz outfits playing bebop. This compilation is, however, a reminder that the label has always strived to remain relevant as tastes change. To underline this point, Robert Glasper — a pianist who […]
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Impossible Ark Label Compilation album – free music download
A free nine-track album featuring acoustic jazz and Latin tunes from the Impossible Ark label What better way to highlight a label’s wares than to give away a selection of its songs? That’s what Impossible Ark Records has done with its Impossible Ark Label Compilation. The nine-track album features songs of a jazzy, acoustic bent by […]
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Smoke ’Em If You Got ’Em album preview – The Jason Parker Quartet/Jay-Z
Thanks to beatmaker Spekulation, you can hear what a jazz album by rapper Jay-Z may sound like This is an awfully clever album. Seattle beatmaker Spekulation combined a cappellas by Jay-Z with music from the Jason Parker Quartet. The result? An unauthorized jazz album by a superstar rapper. Spekulation took samples from Five Leaves Left: […]
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Radio Silence album review – Neil Cowley Trio
Neil Cowley must be getting fed up of critics’ veiled digs. His trio has, for instance, been characterised as an outfit prone to pull “the plug on improvisation” (The Guardian). Really? As if mindful of such gibes, Radio Silence is a more serious affair than 2008’s Loud… Louder… Stop!. Consequently, it has to be spun […]
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Yesterday You Said Tomorrow album review – Christian Scott
Judging from Scott’s scowl on the album cover, you don’t want to mess with this dude. And when you hear his moody opener K.K.P.D. — which, incidentally, stands for “Klu Klux Police Department” — that impression is reinforced. Add to that, tracks entitled Jenacide and American’t, and you sense this 27-year-old New Orleans trumpeter has […]
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The After Suite album review – Elan Mehler
This New York pianist looks like a jazz man, sounds like a jazz man, and yet makes music non-jazzers will love. The numerous vocal tracks on this album will reassure those who flee at the hint of a sax solo. Adam McBride-Smith’s voice perfectly complements the floaty, melodic ballads of The New Breed and I Want To Leave […]
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Planet Pimp album review – Soil & “PIMP” Sessions
If you’re not already familiar with this Japanese sextet, they apparently play “death jazz”. The band says the term was coined “in the hope of alienating Japan’s polite, noodling, straight-ahead jazz cognoscenti”. Whatever its origins, never has a more inappropriate moniker been given to a sound. Many words spring to mind while listening to Planet […]
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Loud… Louder… Stop! album review – Neil Cowley Trio
This album is sandwiched between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Fans of nu jazz, who favour a mains-powered instrument in the mix, will be put off by an acoustic trio. Meanwhile “proper” jazzers — those musos who listen to suites rather than songs — will find Loud… Louder… Stop! too damn catchy for […]