Cari amici ed ascoltatori....metti un produttore di Filadelfia, Small Professor, in sala con tre ragazzotti amanti della sonorità jazz, Phat Hentoff [aka Mellow Drum Addict] (MC), Jasper Brown (MC), Chuck Daily (MC)se si agita per bene ecco quello che può saltare fuori...; jazzy beats conditi da interessanti feuturing vocali, un hip hop ipnotico, cuts di classe e samples di fiati, il tutto molto cool ed ascoltabile....mi sbilancerei a dire molto clubbing? Decidete voi, "Them that do...." QUI ..enjoy, zero
Cari amici ed ascoltatori....ultimo album in studio del grande Miles, uscito postumo nel giugno del 92 per volontà del produttore Easy Mo Bee che alle sei composizioni già completate aggiunse due pezzi, High Speed Chase e Fantasy, prendendo assoli di Davies e costruendoci su il pezzo. La svolta del grande verso il mondo del Hip Hop è ben evidente, e come sempre in anticipo su mode e tendenze, una progenesi all'acid jazz o a progetti come Jazzmatazz di Guru (DMC n.d.r.) e che oggi ancora si ritrovano nella corrente Nu Jazz; molto interessante....QUI zero
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Cari amici ed ascoltatori....I prolifici De-Phazz sono un progetto jazzy downtempo lounge oriented guidato dal produttore tedesco-austriaco Peter "Pit" Baumgartner, che si è circondato di un gruppo di collaboratori caratterizzato dalle cantanti Barbara Lahr, Karl Frierson, e Pat Appleton, nonché musicisti come il batterista Oli Rubow. Album come Detunized Gravity (1997), Godsdog (1999), Death by Chocolate (2001), il Daily Lama (2002), I giorni della Twang (2007), e Big (2009) hanno esplorato i vari terreni della musica lounge del 21 ° secolo, in gran parte miscelando samplers con strumentazione dal vivo, con innumerevoli sezioni di jazz, soul, easy listening, e musica latina. Baumgartner non è anche estraneo ai side projects; ha remixato Ella Fitzgerald "Wait 'til You See him" per la prima compilation della Verve "Remixed", così come Kool & the Gang e a-ha. Bene, dopo questo cappelloto introduttivo passiamo al loro ultimo lavoro "Private" uscito il 29/01/2016 per la Edel non fa che riconfermare la valenza di questo gruppo, a cui il tag eletronic lounge va molto stretto; bel dischetto molto atmosferico e cinematico, scivola via in sottofondo senza mai essere troppo prevalente.....musica per "fare qualcosa", che sia cucinare o smontare un motore; non solo, ma funziona molto bene come rilassante dopo una giornata carica o peggio ancora piena di discussioni inutili ed arrabiature futili....per cui....QUI ... enjoy, zero
Cari amici ed ascoltatori.....di questo trio superstar avevo già postato una loro bella performance al Blue Note di Milano, ed ora arieccoli con un bel prodotto fresco fresco per il 2016, "More serious business", affari più seri ed il nome già ci fa pregustare un altro dischetto molto interessante ed eseguito con quella meticolosità già fattaci sentire. Mai nome fu più appropiato per una band; Jazz Funk Soul a testimoniare le radici da cui si è sviluppato questo bel progetto che unisce questi generi e che noi facilmente tagghiamo come Fusion....QUI enjoy, zero.
Dear friends and listeners....the theme of a voyage is the conceptual thread that brings together The Incognito Traveller's explorations. Every human being will see other people travelling and never know their reason for being, moving, travelling - each human will never know anything about all other travellers. All other travellers are, and will forever remain, anonymous, to the masses. Everyone is the viewer and, at once, anonymous. Everyone has an identity, everyone remains unidentified. A traveller lost among travellers, an incognito traveller. Enrico Gianfranchi creates The Incognito Traveller in 2003 after a few years producing hip-hop beats for rap artists from the Vancouver underground. After playing DJ sets that varied over time from hip-hop to afrobeat to hard jazz, in clubs in Canada, summer beach lounges in Italy, The Incognito Traveller remixes The Dining Rooms’ Forever’s Not and the song is included on the album Versioni Particolari 2 (Schema Records, 2006), alongside remixes by Boozoo Bajou, Parov Stelar, and Fedreghini&Bianchi. After more sets around Italy and Mexico, The Incognito Traveller releases a first EP, offered to the world as a free download in 2007 (Discos Konfort-NoCopyProtection Netlabel), the EP received stellar reviews and a hefty amount of downloads, which prompted the release of a second EP, Traffic/Mediterranean Moonrise (Indiealliance). By 2010 the project had garnered sufficient interest and Discos Konfort commissioned the creation of a full album proper. César Juárez-Joyner, a recognized contemporary music composer and producer from Mexico, with a particular interest in cultural peculiarities and the exchanges between Old and New World over history joined the project. Ravine (2010) allowed for a much more thorough study of an idea; in this case, the deep recesses of the mind where dreams and reality are one and a definition of self can be discovered. Now a duo, The Incognito Traveller’s music immediately obtained greater conceptual spectrum and musical maturity. After a few years of much travelling, The Incognito Traveller went back into the studio with fresh ideas and a concept to be explored: how humanity changes internally, physically, spatially, and how those aspects affect each other. The resulting work, Movements of Migration, proposes a view of humans in their spiritual, urban, and rural facets, with no distinctions. HERE, enjoy, zero
Dear friends and listeners....“Doni Doni (literally Little by Little or Step by Step in the Malian language) reflects the way we built this record” Erik Truffaz Quartet first Album In 3 Years For The Quartet Led By Erik Truffaz, The Groundbreaking Trumpet Player Who Sold Over 600,000 Records Internationally.
Marc Erbetta, the band’s first and foremost drummer, left his seat to fresh and young blood embodied by Arthur Hnatek, a young musician who lived in New York and plays with cutting-edge artists like Tigran Hamasyan.
New inspiration and influences color the new album, taken from a rich and scenic collaboration with the South African dance company VUYANI.
Still standing at the frontier of jazz and instrumental pop, balancing between originality and accessibility the Erik Truffaz Quartet, faithful to a tradition established since many albums, invites two world renown and award-winning voices to this recording: Rokia Traoré and Oxmo Puccino.
The Malian singer will enchant three songs from her sweet and mysterious timbre, while French hip-hop giant and longtime friend and French collaborator (featured on the "Paris Tour" dvd) Oxmo Puccino, will add his creative and mesmerizing input on a title as well. Two diametrically opposed characters that the music of Erik Truffaz Quartet will merge and fuse. Another interesting work by Truffaz's renowed quartet HERE ...enjoy, zero
Freestyle solo saxophone albums are rare, but hardly a novelty, and there have been excellent ones recorded by, among others, Peter Brötzmann, Anthony Braxton, and Evan Parker. Assif Tsahar can be mentioned in the same breath as these giants, as he has grasped the technical difficulties and idiosyncrasies of his horns and absorbed the aesthetic to which he aspires. The end results, as displayed on this album, are solid and exciting, and although they do not break new ground, they are in a sense an initiation into a higher realm for the Israeli-raised artist. A full-length solo album is a difficult, demanding endeavor, as the performer must continuously come through with new ideas. Tsahar performs admirably in that respect, though, to be sure, it is difficult to listen to almost any single performer alone for an extended period, and Tsahar is no exception. Most of the recording is void of extended technique, or at least innovative extended technique, but Tsahar's ability to sustain lines and to avoid repetition for long periods is an admirable feat. Those who particularly enjoy the sound of the freewheeling avant-garde saxophone will not be disappointed with these three meaty improvisations. Others who are attracted to the saxophonist's booming sound might wish to try some of his other albums in which he leads groups of varying sizes.
Dear friends and listeners....Digital Primitives is a hard-funkin' blues trio that grinds on free jazz. really unlike anything I've heard in jazz music scene right now. Digital Primitives revealed improvisation as a soulful journey, strange melodies with vocals improvvisation mashed up with tribal rythms....pick up a look on these guys....HERE ....enjoy, zero
P.S. Mini EP
Dear friends and listeners....another interesting project from Italy
the music was totally improvised and was recorded with a zoom recorder by paulo chagas on october 13, 2014 at Silvia’s home in monserrato (italy). Out the 11 /12/2015 for Pan y Rosas Discos
mixing and mastering by adriano orrù. Cover photo by silvia corda.....QUI enjoy, zero
palimpsest trio:
paulo chagas – sopranino clarinet, alto saxophone, objects
Dear friends and listeners....Dazie Mae is a French band created in Paris in 2003 by Jeanne Jattiot and Mathias Daval. The duo started with a cover project of US and UK songs from the late sixties and early seventies, under the name "D15H".
In 2009, their first album Velvet Dress & Stockings is released under the independent label Can't Be Serious Records. The single Sofa is used by luxury brand Dior for in-door advertising, by American stylist Andrew Christian, as well as by Swedish erotica movie director Erika Lust for her movie "Cabaret Desire".
In 2012 and 2013, the song Sad, Depressed & Lonely from album Dazie Mae - Songs Matured in Oak is one of French national radio FIP's selections. Time with my lover, from the same album, appears in director's Malik Barnhardt movie C'est la vie (2014). HERE we can taste the sound of this band titled "Seasonal Affective Disorder" out for "Can't be Serious Rec. in 2011.....enjoy, zero
Cari amici ed ascoltatori.....è morto il Duca Bianco, Ziggy Stardust se ne è tornato da dove era venuto....un altro là. Se ne va lasciandoci un testamento sonoro, mi sto riferendo al suo 28 esimo ed ultimo album "Blackstar", uscito il 08/01/2016 giorno del suo 69 esimo compleanno; seguiranno ovviamente negli anni a venire ulteriori uscite di raccolte, inediti, session non utilizzate per la gioia sopratutto del mainstream istituzionalizzato e dei fanatici collezionisti. Un testamento, come dicevo poco sopra, per la promozione del singolo Backstar, Bowie ha girato un corto surreale dove interpreta un profeta cieco nello spazio. «Penso di aver iniziato a piangere quando mi ha chiamato», dice il regista Johan Renck. Ma il video sarà l’ultima apparizione di Bowie che i suoi fan potranno avere; un album tendenzialmente cupo, denso di oscuri presagi, una stella nera ci avverte il titolo, come se il Duca sapesse che sarebbe stato il suo ultimo lavoro, e probabilmente lo sapeva visto che erano ormai 18 mesi che combatteva contro il cancro. Pochi brani, sette, ma tutti convincenti con pochi passaggi a vuoto. Una quarantina di minuti in totale, eppure è un disco molto vario che soddisfa sia gli amanti della sperimentazione che del pop alla Duca......in memoria....QUI enjoy, zero
Cari amici ed ascoltatori.....avevo gia' postato qualcosa di questi interessanti tedeschi,i De Phazz, fondati nel 1997 da Pit Baumgartner, propongono un sound di facile ascolto taggabile come nu jazz, assimilando forme sonore dal soul al R&B assieme ad un minimo di mood elettronico. Questo "Greatest Hits" non è proprio recentissimo, e personalmente non adoro le compilation, risale al 2008, ma rende bene l'idea del loro sound.... enjoy ...QUI ...zero
Dear friends and listeners....Gerardo Frisina has established himself throughout the years as one of the italian finest interpreters of the Latin-influenced Jazz club sound. Four years after the release of "Join the Dance", he returns on Schema with a brand new album, "Movement".
Here are 12 pieces describing another amazing journey through Gerardo's rich and exotic influences: these are the adventures of a European Jazz man immersed in Afro-Cuban inspirations. Gerardo's love for Cuban music is wellknown.Jazz had been influenced by Cuban music since its early days and Gerardo's blend of this tradition has become a wellknow trademark.
Movement though, contains a new musical perspective - a more Afro-Funk approach that we can feel on tracks like The Talisman or Mystic Latin, with hot drum breaks that will set fire to the dance floor. This could be how would Manu Dibango or Fela Kuti sound in 2014!
Here we go, dear friends, ready? HERE you can find the right movement ....enjoy, zero
Cari amici ed ascoltatori.....Microsillon è lo pseudomino di un tal Philippe Begin, Dj producer francese giunto con questo suo album, "Rhythm", il suo dodicesimo, ad allietarci con un sound jazz, latin molto molto clubbing, al punto di ricordarmi molto il primo St. Germain; i cugini transalpini sono quelli che in europa insieme a noi Italiani, ma da noi con un numero di artisti maggiore, che meglio interpretano il sound che pesca nella tradizione jazz macchiandola, a seconda dei casi, di soul, di ritmiche più fresche e moderne, quelle ritmiche che fanno muovere a tempo il piede.....enjoy.... QUI , zero
Coming 15 years after he dazzled the world with his jazz-house album Tourist, Ludovic Navarre returned to his St. Germain moniker with this self-titled 2015 effort, the self-titling being a signal that the project was reborn. It is, at least partially, as rare groove jazz has been replaced by music from Mali, West Africa, along with blues and funky jazz guitars from around the world.....HERE enjoy,zero
Dear friends and listeners....here we go, a swing podcast coming from Irma channel, an italian record label that has is edge on nu jazz, electro swing, and latin sounds renowned with a modern electronic rytmic interpretation. In the last few years a new genre called ‘Electro Swing’ has emerged, a modern version of it’s predecessor with electronic and contemporary Club Sounds influences, but thanks to this the original Recordings of Swing Classics have been re-emerged by popular demand ! Irma Records has been involved in this new ‘Swing Fever’ as well and with this new Compilation, introduces all the new Artists that have been recording Tracks in this style, Between Swing and Electro Swing The most known so far are Sugarpie And The Candymen, which, with their Single ‘Tell Me Boy’ (The Track that opens the compilation) are at the moment airplayed by most Italian Radios and highlighted in the Caterpillar Program on Radio Rai 2 that has invited them as Live Guests on the Show. Apart from other known names in the Label such as : Papik, Ely Bruna, Aaron Tesser, Musetta, Italian Secret Service and Robert Passera, there are also some new entries that are appearing on the Compialtion for the first time, as Emsy Prank (their brand new Video is becoming very popular and getting lots of clicks on Youtube), Just Bubbles, Minor Swing Quintet, Mojito Brothers. You can also hear some really fun covers of tracks like : The Beatles’ Drive My Car recorded by ‘Sugarpie’, Love by Nat King Cole rivisited by Fred Buccini and last but not least, ‘Tu Vuo Fa l’americano’ originally by Carosone here performed by Melania. Swing Til U Drop !!
Tracking List:
01 Sugarpie & The Candymen - Tell me boy (02:43)
02 Emsy Prank – Backside (05:53)
03 Just Bubbles - Raising for the moon (08:53)
04 Fred Buccini - L-o-v-e (11:14)
05 IItalian Secret Service - Not the same (15:42)
06 Minor Swing Quintet – Tatatango (19:06)
07 Papik - Notes of the past (Solo Moderna remix) (24:33)
08 Melania - Tu vuo fa l’americano (28:36)
09 Mojito Brothers – Lollobrigida (32:06)
10 Maestro Garofalo - False note (34:56)
11 Just Bubbles - Venus and Mars (38:44)
12 Robert Passera – Jamaica (42:37)
13 Sugarpie & The Candymen - Drive my car (44:51)
14 Aaron Tesset & The New Jazz Affair - Room at the Ritz (48:41)
15 Minor Swing Quintet - All of me (52:20)
16 Mojito Brothers - The gipsy (56:25)
17 Musetta - Underneath the mango tree (58:54)
18 Ely Bruna - Dolce vita (01:01:44)
19 Christian Lisi for Ukulele - Ukulele Swing (01:04:34)
20 Sugarpie & The Candymen - Blue ‘Bout Love (01:07:07)
20 Melania - Tammurriata nera (01:10:43)
21 Sugarpie & The Candymen - Should I stay Should I go (01:13:35)
21 Fa fa va Swing – Capiozzo e Mecco (01:17:54)
22 Maestro Garofalo - Tonys Revenge (01:19:55)
23 Christian Stolfi & Ariano China’ - Escucha la musica (01:25:42)
24 Aaron Tesser & The New Jazz Affair – Little Darling (01:30:56)
25 Papik – On The Move (01:34:45)
26 Ely Bruna feat. Walter Ricci – We are the world (01:38:52)
27 Parma Brass Quintet – Bimba se sapessi (01:42:10)
28 Minor Swing Quintet – Tchavolo swing (01:47:13)
Dear friends and listeners.......you don't need to travel to hear great global music. She'Koyokh are a multi-lingual eight-piece British band whose members include a classically trained violinist and clarinettist, a Serbian accordionist, an American mandolin player, a Greek percussionist and a remarkable young singer who is a Turkish Kurd. They started out busking in London's Columbia Road flower market, and have developed into impressive exponents of klezmer ((is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by professional musicians called klezmorim, the genre originally consisted largely of dance tunes and instrumental display pieces for weddings and other celebrations.) and traditional styles from Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Turkey and the Balkans. Their jaunty and slinky instrumental pieces include a Russian jazz favourite from the 30s and a Turkish folk tune inspired by the mating habits of goats. They also include an exquisite Bosnian love song, featuring the brooding and stately singing of Çiğdem Aslan. So dear friends pick up a look on this album with a strange title "Wild goats & unmarried woman".....HERE enjoy, zero.
Cari amici ed ascoltatori.....il jazz funk o fusion che dir si voglia degli Spyro Gyra sono almeno più di trentanni che ci accompagna; oggi rovistando tra le directory dei back ups ritrovo questo bell'album della band, il loro terzo, al tempo un po' sottovalutato nonostante avesse raggiunto il primo posto nella Billboard americana categoria jazz; riascoltato oggi ci si accorge come risulti tuttora fresco, arioso ed interessante, un groove intramontabile.......QUI SOTTO....enjoy, zero
Dear friends and listeners.....The debut full-length release from The Motion Collective, "Unstuck In Time", with original music composed and produced by acclaimed artist Gerardo Frisina, pushes jazz back, forward, and all around the very concept of time and style.
Based in Bari, Italy via executive producer Antonio Martino of new label A.MA Records, The Motion Collective first broke onto the scene this past winter with a short 4-track EP entitled "Burak". In the interim, the collective continued to record and released "Unstuck" less than 3 short months later.
The vibe on the album drives hard between straight-ahead Brazilian and characteristically Latin sambas, to progressive and fearless jazz that hearkens to classic styles from Herbie Hancock, Lee Morgan, and Horace Silver on Blue Note in the mid-to-late 1960s, to modern ambient house and acid jazz. Many of the tracks feature an electronica-underpinning that gives a millennial edge to originals that could have easily been released to a jazz-loving audience in 1966, but that today set the scene perfectly for a beachside cafe, sushi bar, as part of a deep mix at an all-night rave, or in any upscale ambient environment that wishes to distinguish itself from the norm. The effort intones now-tro coolness, rebellion, and very high composition and musicianship on each of the 10 tracks.
"Unstuck In Time" is currently only available on CD from A.MA Records and its American affiliate, TIMKAT Entertainment, at Bandcamp.....or HERE ....enjoy, zero
Line up:
Antonio Martino - Executive Producer
Gerardo Frisina - Arranger & Producer
Waldo Reyes - Piano
Joseph S. Wilson - Bass
Paul Herrera - Drums
Romano Bortoli - Percussion
Francesca Sortino - Vocal on Zagara (Una Más)
Liviana Ferri and Carla Bavaro - Vocals on Enchanting Drum
Claudia Mars - Vocals on Enfarte Musical
Dhany - Vocals on Into You
Diosvany Hernández Marino - Trumpet (Unstuck In Time, Velvet Spear)
J.B. Loveheed - Trumpet on Enchanting Drum
Alexandra Savage - Flute on Zagara (Una Más)
Gaetano Partipilo - Flute on Voodoo Lust
Enzo Bacco - Saxophones on Into You
Domenico López Dodó - Guitar on Velvet Spear
Pippo Lombardo - Piano, Unstuck in Time and Velvet Spear
Giovanni Guerretti - Keyboards on Enfarte Musical, Into You
Umberto Calentini - Bass on Velvet Spear; Double Bass on Enfarte Musical, Unstuck in Time, and Voodoo Lust
