Good Smooth Jazz from Pat Metheny, 101 North (George Duke), Craig T. Cooper, Ben Tankard, and more! One of the most hated and controversial genres around, Smooth Jazz […]
Fusion
Birmingham-based keyboard wizard, producer, and DJ Byron the Aquarius first came up our radar back in 2016 through his High Life EP released on Theo Parrish’s venerable Sound […]
Join us 2-5pm today at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to the great Growing Bin Records. One of our absolute favorites, Growing Bin Records […]
For Monday’s dedicated listening session, we’re going deep on the trumpeter’s expansive creative output. “Repetitious boredom.” “An insult to the intellect of the people.” “Nameless, faceless go-go music.” […]
Join us 2-5pm at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to jazz-funk classics. For a long time, “fusion” was a dirty word in jazz circles, […]
Join our ECM Dedicated Listening at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC today from 3-7pm! On Monday at our new location in Lower Manhattan, we’ll officially resume our regular programming […]
The jazz supergroup features Benji B, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, and more. The new double album London Brew was originally slated to be a 50th anniversary ode to […]
“Motion is freedom of expression, motion is a real vibration on conventional rhythms, Motion is George Oban.” Though we’re music lovers constantly searching for the next new sound, […]
A potent alchemy of texture and rhythm akin to ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’ or early Material albums. During the spring of 1984 in a semi-rural […]
The genius keyboardist’s jazz-funk band was on fire – and a pro film crew captured the moment. In 1973, a restless Herbie Hancock, fresh from his cosmically free […]
Brilliant footage of the Miles Davis Quintet at peak power. Between Feb. 1969 and Feb. 1970, Miles Davis released eight albums. Near the tail end of that amazing […]
In celebration of his 82nd birthday today, here is a retrospective on Eberhard Weber, the eminent bass innovator, ECM mainstay, and ISC favorite. It’s hard to define the […]
For our next Art & Design: In Focus feature, we look into the psychedelic worlds of MC Escher. Ever feel stuck in your music discovery routine? After extended […]
One of the only live performances of Schoener’s much beloved Gamelan fusion record, Bali-Agúng. Eberhard Schoener has made his name as a German pioneer who bridged classical music […]
Five “fingertracks” from Andrew Hogge aka Lovefingers. It is without exaggeration to say that Andrew Hogge, aka Lovefingers, is one of our absolute favorite selectors. His pre-social media, […]
The newly formed Fresh Hold imprint teams up with fellow Melbourne-based label Efficient Space to present a long-lost jazz grail. Michael Kucyk’s always reliable Efficient Space has teamed […]
Miles’ septet live in Stockholm featuring musicians that would later appear on his 1974 jazz-rock classic, Get Up With It. Miles needs no introduction here. The Prince of […]
Five iconic tracks from the 80’s featuring Dave Smith’s legendary Prophet-5 synthesizer. American synthesizer company Sequential Circuits recently announced a brand new compact desktop version of their iconic […]
Celebrating 50 years of Mwandishi with a retrospective on the albums beyond the group’s legendary trilogy. Herbie Hancock’s electronics-heavy free jazz group Mwandishi has in recent years attained […]
Jazz’s evolution over the decades has begat a series of subgenres: be-bop, post-bop, free-jazz, spiritual jazz and fusion, to name a few. But by the end of the […]
Revisiting one of our favorite labels with Aquarium Drunkard’s excellent three part ‘Guide to ECM’ series. To celebrate the anniversary of our ECM Listening Party with Aquarium Drunkard, […]
