Recommendations of the editorial team
1. Art Ensemble of Chicago – We are on the edge (2019)
Poetry slam, opera singing and the cello of the wonderful Tomeka Reid make this spiritual jazz field vibrate. Roscoe Mitchell and Don Moye are more than just fathers of New Jazz. You are in the middle of it with this record.
2. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II/Bird Dogs of Paradise (2019)
The trumpeter from Chicago translated the discomfort in the world out there in Drones and splintering blues. Or edited a track until it sounds like “Alien Disco”, she says. Ruard must be danceable.
3. Theon Cross – Fyah (2019)
The tuba player’s solo debut, which feels like every second London New Jazz recording. With these eight ensemble tracks, Cross demonstrates that the tuba can do much more than to inflate the basslines in the New Orleans jazz, here DJs can also use jazz dance.
4. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (2019)
A single favorite of Black Music, recorded with an iPhone app. The artist from Chicago could fill a Broadway musical with these songs, but prefers to rummage up the surface with her clarinet.
5. Ezra Collective – You Can’t Steal My Joy (2019)
“Best UK Act” at the “Jazz FM Awards”. Sturm and pure joy in the fusion outfit, which surprise Ezras with rap and r’n’b contributions and an grounding for Sun Ras “Space is the place”.
6. Ill Considered – Ill Considered 3 (2018)
Drum’n’Bass hits jazz fusion, and the bass sometimes comes close to the metallic hammer in Javanian Gamelan music. High -intensive band plate in complete own line, strictly underground.
7. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – Where Future Unfolds (2019)
Aufing Live recording: A pilgrimage from the spiritually charged rooms of the Civil-Rights movement in the jazz and soul populated by Drum Machines in the here and now, feat. Angel Bat Dawid.
8. Makaya McCraven, among other things – where we come from (2018)
The groundbreaking mixtape on which musicians from London and Chicago close a covenant for life after the joint improvisation. Makaya McCraven built jazz from the newly organized elementary particles of these jams.
9. Makaya McCraven UA – Universal Begs (2018)
The continuation of the collective jazz celebration, recorded in four cities and freshly contextualized. McCraven absorbs threads from post-bop to free meditations and AfroBeat.
10. Nérija – Blume (2019)
Producer Kwes (Tirzah, while) staged Nubya & Co. in London. Here jazz is more likely to be presented in poem form and with a guitar that comes from the post rock.
11. Je vert Parker – Suite for Max Brown (2020)
The soloist and Sideman (Tortoise) this time as a band leader that brings jazz traces of the past to a hip-hop flow. Also a longing music – with greetings to Alice and John Coltrane.
12. Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Four/Memphis (2019)
The saxophonist and concept artist from Chicago combines family album and US history in alloys from art rock, free jazz, country, blues. She calls this “Panoramic Sound Quilting”.
13. Shabaka and the Ancestors – We are Sent Here by History (2020)
The saxophonist with his experimental big band from South Africa – in this sound strudel, Afrofututurism steps back into the present.
14. Sons of Kemet – Your Queen is a reptile (2018)
Everyone has their queen, shabaka and band crown out of outstanding women in African -American history. And conquer sound spaces for feminism, they send grime to the Caribbean and Second Line Beats in the Dub.
15. Various – We out here (2018)
Shabaka, Nubya, Moses, Maisha, Theon, Ezra Collective and Kokoroko – the class reunion of the London Jazz Warriors demonstrates the growing importance of a scene between diversity and cooperation. Here you can get to get to know the new jazz.