Experimental jazz-rock group Lovely Socialite are out with the first single from their upcoming album “The Drift.” “Final Flight” has plenty of vigor and action, like we’re seeing the character come to life and taking a big leap to the tune of howling horns and crashing melody. It’s got a podcast episode attached where the band discusses the process and
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Jazz artists Kenn Fox and Garrett Waite teamed up for a new album. With graceful fingerstyle guitar from Fox and delightful compositional direction from Waite, this record seamlessly fuses expertise from two dynamic personalities. There’s contributions from musicians Randy Mueller, Davey Harrison, Shokan Muishitzu Roshi, and Raj Alwa here as well, including a narrated poem in “Two Worlds” about the
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Pop-rock-jazz fusion group RAF & Company have a new single out. While starting out somberly introspective using the titular river as a vehicle for reflection and hope, the tune swells into a joyous pop tune where the person you’ve missed most is at the river too. Now, you’ve found yourself at the home you’ve always known. It’s a prosperous one
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The magic of an improvised live performance makes up a new record.
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Experimental jazz artist Andrew Trim is out with a new record. With the likes of Barry Paul Clark on bass, Nick Lang on drums and Dan Pierson on keyboards, Trim brings a flurry of ensnaring rhythms and lively psychedelia. The quartet dwell from a place of immediacy and intention, reaching mesmerizing altitudes through precise creative communication. If you’re looking for
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Jazz artist Jamie Breiwick teamed up with electronic artist Jay Mollerskov for a record of improvisation. These eight tracks were created by taking clips of Breiwick playing trumpet and chopping them with Mollerskov’s electronic manipulations (looping, granular synthesis, spectral processing). The result is a mesmerizing work of spacey meditations layered into cohesion. Culminating decades of friendship, Jamie Breiwick and Jay
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Experimental quartet Permanent Murkers released a new track a little while ago. It’s an electric jazz tune adorned with the colors of a vibrant sunset, as the cover art depicts. With a calm demeanor, the piece gives the impression that all four musicians are making each creative decision based on what feels right in the moment. We hope to hear
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Jazz-funk band Kal Bergendahl Project released an album a few months back. Featuring nine musicians, this record is multi-faceted in style while retaining a consistent personality. Several numbers are personable jazz numbers with spicy grooves and ensnaring solos, but the gentle piano interludes to not only cool things down but glue everything together. It’s interesting to note that the interludes
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Free jazz band KASE released a new record this weekend on B Side Recordings. Seated at the intersection of jazz and hip hop, it eagerly explores the themes of roots and old relationships, becoming a pseudo-concept album that incorporates the band members as characters of a story. Klassik guest stars on keys in the second track as well. “Seasons” is
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Jazz fusion trio Smoke n’ Mirrors have their sophomore record out today. Incorporating funky sensibilities and soulful sensations, the band delivers a smorgasbord of flavorful cuts that’ll get you swaying back and forth with all the people you love. The saxophone is jovial, the drums are assertive, and the keys keep your head in the clouds but feet on the
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Jazz artist Jamie Breiwick released a new album of both original compositions and improvisations. Breiwick’s instrumentation here consists of trumpet, water trumpet, and finger cymbals. Enlisting Tim Ipsen on bass, the duo challenge the barriers between structural and formless expression. Every sound and movement is precise and intentional because each feels right in the moment; sometimes Breiwick plays his horn
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It’s jazz artist Jamie Breiwick’s birthday today, and he’s prepared a new song for the world for it, out on B Side Recordings. Spanning over eight minutes long, this piece features feathery flute over a delicate drum beat, shrouded in curtains of synths. It’s a composition that invokes West Coast imagery, bringing multi-colored low-level clouds and palm trees to mind.
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Free-improv jazz group Tony Catania Trio have a new record out this week. Featuring Catania on tenor sax, Barry Paul Clark on bass, and Devin Drobka on drums, this body of work is an authentic practice of intention with immediacy. The three musicians speak to one another via their instruments’ languages, effectively creating synergy through avant-garde conduits. The title seems
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Soul-jazz trio Smoke N’ Mirrors released another single this week. This one has a funky bone; it encourages you to get off your ass and start grooving to the love. With wicked sax and dazzling keyboards, Smoke N’ Mirrors are here to accompany your romantic cocktail night with some smooth personality. We hope that this and their last single are
Read moreBorn and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, Eugene Williams, also known as Eugenegenay, , also known as Eugenegenay,is an arranger and composer who writes and publishes his own original music. He has a unique way of jamming on the strings of the guitar; people say he has a style of his own. Eugene has travelled around the world, singing
Read moreScott Joye* has written many songs. The artist describes his sound as unique, powerful and rhythmic. Some of his musical influences are Michael Jackson, Prince, Kenny Lattimore, Janet Jackson, Gladys Knight and Bono. When you mix the sounds of such diverse and legendary artists, you get something truly remarkable. His song “We Can Make It To The Top” currently has
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Jazz fusion trio Smoke N’ Mirrors have a new single out with upbeat swagger. It’s the type of tune you’re walking down the street to feeling like you’re on top of the world. Nothing can touch you. No one can touch Smoke N’ Mirrors either, with solos from all three musicians that make for relentless rocking. Hopefully there’s more to
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Avant-garde jazz composer Devin Drobka enlisted bassist Aaron Darrell and pianist Matt Blair for his latest record. Inspired by the end of his last relationship, Drobka created this body of work as intentionally as one can, finding joy with each passing moment as the musicians connect with one another through fearlessness, urgency, and compassion. There’s a profound level of trust
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Lovely Socialite is an experimental jazz band featuring musicians from both Milwaukee and Madison. Their “Quarantine Loops” series finds members composing different original loop material which is then used as the source for composition by the others. Their third batch of pieces is now out; it’s five tracks that keep it whimsical with a touch of darkness. There’s some guest
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paLABra! remain technical and fun on their self-titled record.
Read more‘something_Blue’ is a track from Mogley Miroma’s newest album ‘floo&smoo’. This song in particular came from the artist’s need to create something he has not captured yet. He wanted to write something approachable but real. Usually, Miroma’s songs tend to be a bit despondent and dark so this time he wanted to have fun and create something joyful. The general
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Tiffany Goode is a trumpetist born in Richmond, Virginia and currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her love affair with music and the trumpet at 10 years old. She received a Bachelors of Science in Music Engineering Technology from Hampton University and is currently pursuing a Masters in Ethnomusicology from Liberty University. Tiffany has been featured in Rolling Out
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Jazz trio KASE have a new record out on B Side Recordings; it’s a live album they did at The Highbury. As a matter of fact, it was their first time making improv music together. The bar gradually fills up as the night goes on, and the music follows suit with finding form and spirit. Going for seven, eight, and
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Long-running jazz singer-songwriter Jerry Grillo released a new song a few months ago. It’s a gentle piano tune about a better tomorrow; the world is waiting on you to start shining again. These are powerful words in a time of societal pain, and Grillo reminds us that we can get through it together. Keep showing love to the world around
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KASE is an avant-garde jazz collective consisting of Jamie Breiwick, John Christensen, and knowsthetime; they’ve got a new record out today on B Side Recordings. In the most experimental of approaches to jazz the group plays with turntablism, rapping from CRASHprez, live beats, and free improvisation throughout these eclectic compositions. The final track extends this fusion over fourteen minutes. Classics
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