I played the single, Smile, prior the release of the debut album, NOT TIGHT, which finally dropped – on Blue Note, no less – this month. Whether or not DOMi & JD BECK turn out to be “the future of Jazz”, at 22 and 19 respectively this will surely be the first of many exceptional releases, and with a guest appearance from undisputed Jazz legend, Herbie Hancock (plus vocoder!) they appear to be on the right track. At the other end of the spectrum I’m loving Noori & His Dorpa Band’s “electric soul and brass from Sudan’s Red Sea coast”, as raw and roots as D&JD are contemporary and slick.
Soothsayers always deliver, Tedeschi Trucks are currently my favourite live band and will be playing the Palladium in November, I played Somehow from the 3rd of their 4 recently released albums. Chief Ebenezer Obey started the show with his superlative, incessantly funky Nigerian Juju grooves from 1989, new releases/reissues from Ceu, Bruno Berle, The Movers, Karamanduka Y Melcochita, Alfredo Linares, Binker Golding … A big up to the 60th anniversary of Jamaican Independence with Earl Zero, Koffee and Toots, lo fi gems from Charles Stepney, Thomas Frempong and so much more …
Chief Ebenezer Obey & His Inter Reformers Band | Formula 0-1-0 | Formula 0-1-0 |
Charles Stepney | That’s The Way Of The World | Step On Step |
Earth, Wind and Fire | In The Stone | |
Roberto Roena | Take Five | I Like It Like That |
Tito Puente and his Orchestra | Matacumbe | Tito Puente and his Orchestra |
Noori & his Dorpa Band | Al Amal | Beja Power |
Jazz Jamaica | Bridge View | Skaravan |
Koffee | Lockdown | Gifted |
Toots & The Maytals | I Gotta Woman | Light Your Light |
Earl Zero | Please Officer | Jammys From the Roots (1977-1985) |
Ural Thomas & The Pain | El Eye Em Eh | |
Thomas Frempong | Mada Meho So | Borga Revolution! Ghanaian Dance Music In The Digital Age, 1983-1992 |
Claude Deppa | Snake | Vuka |
The Movers | Gig Soul Party | The Movers – Vol 1 – 1970-1976 |
Ricardo Marrero | Feel Like Making Love | I Like It Like That |
Alfredo LInares | El Tiburon | El Pito |
Soothsayers & Victor Rice | Flying East | |
Watch The Ride x Nia Archives | Mash Up The Dance (Kings Of The Rollers Remix) | |
Ceu | Aurora | Um Gosta De Sol |
Bruno Berle | É Preciso Ter Amor | No Reino Dos Afetos |
Tedeschi Trucks Band | Somehow | I Am The Moon: III. The Fall |
Binker Golding | My Two Dads | Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy |
DOMi & JD Beck | What UP | Not Tight |
Alina Bzhezhinska, HipHarpCollective | Paris Sur Le Toit (DJ Spinna Remix Instrumental) | Afro Blue Paris Remixes |
Karamanduka y Melcochita | Peruvian Boogaloo | Acabo Con Lima Huyo Pa Nueva York |