Blog: New Jazz Noises

For my first set of noises, I've decided to veer instantly away from what's conventionally seen as jazz. Is this a statement about how this thing's gonna swing? You decide... I'm not sure if I like the 'Nu-Jazz' label, reminds me of that awful thing called Nu-Metal, but the way I see it there's definitely a new strain of music out there, being made by both jazz and electronic musicians, which sits almost evenly in both jazz and electronic genres. That said, the following tracks both contain entirely conventional instruments, without a sampler or turntable in sight. So without further [...]

A period of non-Internet last month means the first post was pretty lonely for a while, but hopefully the regularity will pick up now I'm back online! For this post I'm going to give you 3 tracks that mess with your internal metronome... they're not necessarily in crazy time signatures, but they require a new look at where beat 1 is! Coincidentally, the first three tracks I wanted to share of this kind of stuff all featured sax players... Julian Arguelles - free, rhapsodic, manic [...]

I am very pleased to annouce New Jazz Noises has been added to the glorious thing known as The Hype Machine ... To celebrate this, here's a reminder of what came before, before the next post. Hopefully lots of folk will now see this. Please, please, PLEASE leave a wee comment - I can't be sure who's actually listening otherwise. If you especially like a track, particularly Employee of the Month (them being but a small band...) please head to their respective websites and leave [...]

...to New Jazz Noises. A jazz musician, composer and listener having a go at this whole mp3 blog thing and trying to share some of his favourite new jazz discoveries. Right now I'm going to go and make this place look nice, then choose my first tracks to share. It's early in the morning, but I'm not very sleepy. This might be a regular state of posting.