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From the Fire

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Overture; Feed The Fire; Sleep; Interlude 1; Indigo; Survive; Interlude 2; From the Fire; Souled Out.

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Altera Vita

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate); Tu Vibes (You See); Tange (Touch); Audite Me (Hear Me); Anima (Breathe); Altera Vita (Another Life).

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Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

Read "Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024" reviewed by Chris May


In case you missed the sad news, our dear friend and compatriot, Chris May, passed away in November (read our tribute). Below are the albums he considered extraordinary in 2024--a final testament to his discerning taste and love of sound. -mR Rob LuftDahab Days Edition Records

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Audrey Powne: From the Fire

Read "From the Fire" reviewed by Scott Lichtman


The work of Australian-born singer, trumpeter, keyboardist and composer/lyricist Audrey Powne transcends traditional jazz styles. From the Fire (BBE Music, 2024) is a gem that melds jazz, new soul and soundtrack impressionism with penetrating lyrics to fashion a sonic journey. One first notices her impressive technique across instruments. Powne's trumpet playing swings freely. Drawing ...

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Larry Nozero: Time

Read "Time" reviewed by Chris May


Here is an odd one. Originally released on the short-lived Detroit label Strata in 1975, Larry Nozero's Time defies categorization. First-generation spiritual jazz, Henry Mancini, Motown, strings (real and synthed), the Swingle Singers, Braziliana and Shaft era Isaac Hayes jostle around the mic, along with Sibylline hints of Kamasi Washington. Is it for real? Is it ...

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Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi: Altera Vita

Read "Altera Vita" reviewed by Chris May


Harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and saxophonist Tony Kofi's musical partnership began in 2015 and two years later made the main stage of the London Jazz Festival, opening the bill of A Concert For Alice And John at the Barbican concert hall. Also appearing, saxophonist Denys Baptiste's quartet and, top of the bill, Pharoah Sanders' quartet. It was ...

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Reflections

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Soul Vibrations; For Carrol; Fire; Reflections; Afro Blue; Alabama; African Flower; Paris Sur Le Toit (instrumental); Sans End; Action Line; Paris Sur Le Toit (rap and vocal); Meditation.

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This Is Brian Jackson

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: All Talk; Force Of Will; C'est Cette Comete; Nomad; Mami Wata; Path To Macondo / Those Kind Of Blues; Hold On; Little Orphan Boy.

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Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Albums Of 2022

Read "Chris May's Best Albums Of 2022" reviewed by Chris May


It was a good year for jazz, as the world recovered from The Great Pause and bands got together once more for real-time live recordings. Twelve of 2022's absolute top albums are presented here, half of them new recordings, the other half reissues or previously unreleased archive items. Number One Best New Album ...

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Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective: Reflections

Read "Reflections" reviewed by Chris May


In an inspired piece of programming, London's Barbican Centre presented the then virtually unknown harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and her quartet as one of the support bands on its November 18, 2017 one-nighter A Concert for Alice and John, a show headlined by Pharoah Sanders. It would be an exaggeration to say Bzhezhinska stole the show (see ...


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