Often introducing himself as a “beat scientist”, Chicago-based drummer Makaya McCraven is a startling new voice on the music scene. Released in 2015, his outstanding breakthrough on the international stage In the Moment LP already highlighted his novel synthesis of live jazz and hip-hop production techniques. Using collaborative ... [Continue Reading]
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Brandee Younger: Soul Awakening
Based in New-York, Brandee Younger is a young jazz harpist who is in the process of rejuvenating a style still dominated by the towering influence of her historic peers Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. As a composer and teacher, the musician is one of the rare contemporary jazz harpists recording today either as a solo artist, ... [Continue Reading]
Chris Gall & Bernhard Schimpelsberger: Myriad
Chris Gall & Bernhard Schimpelsberger is a jazz piano and percussion duo formed in 2016. Piano and drums duos are extremely rare, especially in the realm of jazz where the formation will always be considered a double bass-short of the classic trio. But the absence of an official bass is more than adequately compensated here ... [Continue Reading]
esbjörn svensson trio: live
Being in the moment while it happens - Esbjörn Svensson Active between 1993 and 2008, Esbjörn Svensson Trio aka e.s.t. was a trailblazing Swedish jazz trio comprised of Dan Berglund on double bass, Esbjörn Svensson on piano and Magnus Öström on drums. Rejuvenating the image of the classic piano-dominated jazz trio and putting ... [Continue Reading]
Søren Bebe Trio: Echoes
Nurturing the great tradition of Scandinavian jazz ensembles and comprised of Søren Bebe on piano, Anders Mogensen on drums and Kasper Tagel on double bass, the Copenhagen-based Søren Bebe Trio was formed in 2007. Following on from their 2016 Home and self-released on 10 May 2019 last, Echoes is the trio’s sixth studio ... [Continue Reading]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Live
Almost inevitably introduced as a young emerging jazz trio on the Polish and international scene, the Marcin Wasilewski Trio have nonetheless been on the road for 25 years and 2019 marks the trio’s silver jubilee anniversary. Comprised of Marcin Wasilewski on piano, Slawomir Kurkiewicz on bass and Michal Miskiewicz on drums, the ... [Continue Reading]
Kokoroko
Kokoroko is a young London-based collective of musicians strongly influenced by Ebo Taylor’s Ghanaian Highlife music style, by Tony Allen or Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat while also incorporating contemporary West African and European jazz sounds. While some of the band members met at London’s Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and ... [Continue Reading]