George Shaw – Encounters

Featured in Numero Group’s Nu Leaf smooth jazz compilation, George Shaw’s Encounters is an underrated jazz album that you probably wouldn’t pick out of the stacks based on the cover. Even if you prescribed that it was a flugelhorn jazz record, all four of those words point to nothing good so it’s a complete surprise when tracks like “6295 Sw Fisher” ride with drum machine smooth (in the best way) and “I Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind” hit like a modern soul private press jazz record. Pick it up if you find it, you won’t regret.

Recommended – A3 6295 Sw Fisher, A4 I Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind