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Shabaka Hutchings

Shabaka Hutchings, a saxophonist, band leader and composer, part of London’s community of younger jazz musicians as well as the city’s thriving improvised music scene. For Hutchings, composition is a chronicle of the zeitgeist inhabited by a composer; an exposition of his or her search for meaning and the structuring of experiences in aid of recognising this meaning when it appears. As part of the Caribbean diaspora, he sees his role as that of pushing the boundaries of what musical elements are considered to be Caribbean. Constantly evaluating the nature of his relationship with musical material and tradition, he describes his attempts at composition as wrestling matches with questions of where and how the Caribbean can be encoded, and what happens when it is exposed to the western classical music cannon. Hutchings was born in 1984 in London

Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

By Shabaka Hutchings

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: End Of Innocence; As The Planet And The Stars Collapse; Managing My Breath What Fear Had Become; The Wounded Need To Be Replenished; Body To Inhabit; I’ll Do Whatever You Want; Living; Breathing; Kiss Me Before I Forget; Song Of The Motherland.

Milton + esperanza

By Esperanza Spalding

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Music Was There; Cais; Late September; Outubro; A Day In The Life; Interlude For Saci; Saci; Wings For The Thought Bird; The Way You Are; Earth Song; Morro Velho; Saudade Dos Avioes Da Panair (Conversando No Bar); Um Vento Passou; Get It By Now; Outro Planeta; When You Dream.

Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Chris May
December 3, 2024

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

Top Ten Sci-Fi Jazz Albums

by Chris May
October 14, 2024

On The Launch Pad Robert Frosch, head honcho at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1977 to 1981, wrote that at cocktail parties he was sometimes asked whether NASA had some gizmo or other that had recently been brought to fictional life in a sci-fi book or movie. If Frosch's answer was “No," the next ...

Ritratto di Adam O'Farrill

by Angelo Leonardi
October 7, 2024

Il trentesimo compleanno del trombettista Adam O'Farrill coincide con la pubblicazione di HUESO, il suo settimo album da leader/co-leader prodotto in una carriera singolarmente lunga e prestigiosa. Il primo importante riconoscimento pubblico gli giunge all'età di 21 anni nel 2015, con la vittoria di Bird Calls al critics poll di Down Beat, un album ...

Shabaka Hutchings: Musical Force of Nature

by Kristine England
September 17, 2024

Much of the creativity being showcased in the jazz world is happening in the UK, and at the center of that musical community is multi-instrumentalist Shabaka Hutchings. Born in jny: London, he spent most of his childhood in his parents' native Barbados. The diversity of the people and cultures of those two locales helped shaped his ...

Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story Of The UK Jazz Explosion

by Ian Patterson
September 5, 2024

Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story Of The UK Jazz Explosion André Marmot 424 Pages ISBN: 978-0-571-37448-9 Faber & Faber 2024 Anyone who has kept half an eye on the UK/jny:London jazz scene since the turn of the century will likely be aware that jazz there has gone from being ...

Milton Nascimento / Esperanza Spalding: Milton + esperanza

by Chris May
July 31, 2024

Sometimes the semiology around an album can tell you more about it than any amount of words attempting to describe the music itself. And the semiology around Milton + esperanza is eloquent. It begins with the overlap with another summer 2024 release, Wayne Shorter's magical double-album Celebration Volume 1 (Blue Note), a previously unreleased recording of ...

137: Strangeness Oscillation

by Chris May
July 17, 2024

More comebacks than Sinatra? Well, not really, given that this is the first one, but the return of the beyond-category British saxophonist and flautist Larry Stabbins after an eleven-year absence is headline news. In 2013, Stabbins (a.k.a. Stonephace) very publicly announced that he was beyond disgusted with the music business in general and the jazz business ...