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BY DANIEL BEAUREGARD NEXT Collective is a New York-based group comprised of some of the most notable young names in jazz. Except for producer Chris Dunn, there isn’t a single musician credited on the album that was born before 1980. Despite their youth, each of these musicians has already carved out a place in jazz history. Their new album, aptly titled Cover Art , finds NEXT Collective giving contemporary takes on an eclectic mix of well-known pop, rock, and hip-hop tunes, including a few from my youth, including [...]

ne:o are a five-piece group in Dresden, Germany, who blur genres between rock, jazz, and electronic music. They sometimes remind us of The Art of Noise and the great jazz-post-rock experimental bands. Other times they call to mind Jaga Jazzist , who Wikipedia labels as Jazz , Nu jazz , Acid jazz , Electronica , Experimental rock , and Post-rock . ne:o drifts between those realms, too. German netlabel Aaahh Records shares [...]

Oggi, Google ha deciso di celebrare il 93esimo anniversario dalla nascita del famoso graphic designer, Saul Bass , con uno dei suoi classici Doodle animati. L'intero lavoro di Saul Bass è stato omaggiato con un video che ha citato le sue opere più celebri, i titoli di testa e la grafica di tanti film che hanno fatto la storia del cinema mondiale e che ha realizzato, lavorando, tra gli altri, con registi del calibro di Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick e Steven Spielberg. [...]

It's always a good day when something like this drops in the inbox. Idesia is a new LA based neo soul, jazz and hip hop fusion project that has delivered some essential listening on their new Other Nights EP. "Lustfound" and "onacloud" are two of our favorite takeaways from the project. Sample the tracks below. New music aficionados take note and stay tuned for more that's sure to come from Idesia. lustfound by idesia onacloud by idesia Indesia [...]

Bass master Thundercat has dropped yet another track from his sophomore full-length, which is on the way soon via Brainfeeder records. The track's title is "Oh Sheit It's X," and it's led to yet another moment where I'm left wondering how good this album is actually going to be. Thundercat's first album took on many of the same funk and jazz fusion influences the song above does, but translated them into something futuristic, intergalactic thanks to production help from longtime collaborator Flying Lotus. This new cut takes a lot of the same funk tropes, [...]

• Thundercat - Oh Sheit It's X

TThe sharp, agreeable Haymaker will be Noah Preminger's first album since the last one Before The Rain (2011) catapulted the tenor saxophone master to the front ranks of today's current crop of young lions. On that last project, Preminger assembled a band full of heavy hitters around himself and made a widely lauded record, one that we ourselves proclaimed contained [...]

Originario de la ciudad de Nueva York, Adam Rogers es considerado uno de los más importantes guitarristas del jazz moderno. Con una formación que inicia en el estudio profundo de la música clásica, Rogers ha despuntado en la escena del jazz mundial gracias a su estilo que bien puede partir de los sonidos clásicos, pasar por el rock, hasta llegar a las expresivas improvisaciones jazzísticas. El guitarrista ha colaborado con una larga fila de músicos de muy distinta procedencia, que van del saxofonista de ideas radicales John Zorn , hasta la compositora y cantante [...]

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Alix Perez, LTJ Bukem Song: Dave Owen - Deep Breathin' [download here ] What's so good? Drum & bass [...]

• Dave Owen - Deep Breathin – goodlooking Records

Dayna Kurtz' new album, Secret Canon Vol. 2, is a thing of beauty. The followup to last year's Secret Canon 1, Secret Canon Vol. 2 is collection of rare blues and jazz covers from the 1940-60s with a few originals ... Continue reading �

• Dayna Kurtz - I Look Good in Bad

The follow-up to 2010s' Betweenwhile by Bacteria To Boys involved a transition from Darius Jones to Jon Irabagon in the sax role, but also a transition for its chief, Mike Pride, too. As a new dad, the drummer, composer and bandleader has made next his BTB record reflect an altered new outlook that comes with being a new parent. The [...]

Best known as the drummer in the barrier-breaking metal band Living Colour, Will Calhoun has quietly put together an impressive resume in jazz - notably performing with Wayne Shorter on the Grammy-winning effort High Life, while also appearing along side Jaco Pastorious, Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Marcus Miller and Herb Alpert, among others. Life in This World, due May 14, [...]

Viktar Siamashka and Co , a free-jazz quartet in Mink, Bielarus, just released their Biotope album on the avant-garde netlabel Black Square ( Чёрный квадрат ). These spontaneous improvised pieces were recorded live "in anticafe Fisher House, Miensk, Bielarus" and fans of improvised free-jazz will want to hear this one. Siamashka performs beautifully on woodwinds and brass. The group -- Viktar Siamashka (winds, percussion), Eryk Arlou-Shymus (double-bass), Maxim Iukin (voice, percussion), Raman Jarash (big drum) -- holds together as if they have played these pieces for years. [...]

Mind blowing stuff from three quite different instrumental bands from Melbourne. - By Sander van den Driesche

As if having a hyphenated name wasn't unusual enough, a 1950s swing band known as the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra had a couple of other odd attributes. For one thing, the group reached its peak during the twilight of the big band era. It was also unusual for having dual bandleaders, but the real oddity was how they turned the orchestra into a unique musical experiment. Brooklyn-born Eddie Sauter and New Jersey native Bill Finegan were both consummate professionals, with backgrounds that included classical musical educations and decades of service in some of the biggest of the big [...]

Albums with as many songs as a 45 single are bound to be interesting, and that's undeniably the case for Mike Pride's dual epic numbers compiled into his upcoming Drummer's Corpse album. Pride has always thrived on the outskirts of jazz, a trait reinforced by studying under Milford Graves and hanging out with the likes of Anthony Braxton, Otomo Yoshihide [...]

Weekly Jazz Rock World Fusion Streaming Latch Music Radio Top 20 ending 5-3-13. Voted on by the people who listen to Latch Music Radio . #20. Steps Ahead - Stick Jam - N.Y.C. #19. Steve Hunt - Wring It Out - From Your Heart and Your Soul #18. Three Jazz Soldiers - Ryba, Rêcznik [Fish, Towel] (K.Misiak) - OD£AMKOWA #17. Tribal Tech - Time Lapse - X #16. TU - Kolokol - Live in Russia #15. Usonic - The Intention - Evolution #14. [...]

On Mother's Day, r&b/jazz singer, songwriter, and yes, mom, Carol Duboc will present in digital form her newest album Smile. Her sixth album represents a collaboration with fusion giant Jeff Lorber, co-writing and co-producing all ten songs with one of contemporary jazz's most influential keyboardists and composers of all time. Moreover, Lorber brought in some of his heavy hitter session [...]

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Secondo live di The Voice Italia , con una prima clamorosa sopresa. L’eliminazione di Giuliana Danzè , una delle due reduci da Ti Lascio Una Canzone , ha francamente dell’inspiegabile: nettamente la migliore dei suoi, forse la migliore in assoluto della serata su un pezzo difficile, soprattutto per una giovanissima come lei. Incredibile anche l'eliminazione di Alessandra Parisi , una delle più titolate in gara, cui Pelù ha preferito l'anima rock di Francesco Guasti. Diverse buone assegnazioni, alcune ottime interpretazioni, alcune molto meno, come quella di Emanuele Lucas , premiato dalla Carrà forse [...]

Whenever I describe a jazz artist as unique and eccentric, using odd meters and irregular note progressions, that means I'm describing a whack jazz artist about 99% of the time. Reedman Daniel Bennett on the hand belongs in that one percent. When taking in the Daniel Bennett Group's Peace and Stability Among Bears a couple of years ago, I was [...]

I SUGGEST that you put the new album by Heliocentrics at the centre of your universe. Because 13 Degrees Of Reality is almost unreal in its fusion of jazz, psychedelia, electronica, funk, world, krautrock and more. Orbiting around the one constant here - the sturdy drumwork of legend Malcom Catto - the fuzzy guitar work and incessant basslines wander like particles in a dust cloud, this musical Brownian motion knitting to create something unique that exists in the vacuum between all of the aforementioned genres. The result is a cosmic creation that is otherworldly, epic and truly [...]