Top Ten new and emerging musicians
01. Yiorgos Kaloudis ‘On the wind’ (DNA) Key tracks: ‘Swell’/’Granda hills’/’Mistake’ Cellist-lyra player and composer (especially of film soundtracks), Yiorgos Kaloudis is quite simply Greece’s best kept cultural secret.
02. Yuriy Galkin Nonet ‘Nine of a kind’(F-Ire) ‘One for Fred’/’Labyrinth’/’Episode’
03. Jessica Lauren ‘Jessica Lauren 4’ (Freestyle) ‘Vaya con Dios’/’Mel Benson’/ ‘Mr. G’
04. Rachael Gladwin and Red Socks ‘Melodies and time’ (Inaugural) ‘They pray’/ ‘Fade to brown’/ ‘Right now I know’
05. Alkinoos Ioannidis ‘Local stanger’ (Wrasse) ‘Afternoon at the tree’/ ‘Plea’/ ‘It was just a dream’
06. Zhenya Strigalev ‘Smiling Organizm Vol. 1’ (Whirlwind) (June 4 release) ‘Fairy stairs’/’Yaspin’/’Permadent’
07. En Jota ‘En Jota (Karonte) ‘Palomica’/ ‘Jota blues’/ ‘Jota Paris’ Spanish fusion of jazz and folkloric ‘Jota’ vocal styles under the aegis of the Basque Country’s favourite saxophonist Josetxo Goia-Aribe.
08. Khari Cabral Simmons CD single ‘Never in your sun’ (Dome)
09. Mister Atomic ‘Mister Atomic’ (Rascayú)’La Ilicitana/ ‘ Some..skunk.. Monk’/ ‘A Penguin Tunisia’
10. Glazz ‘Cirquelectric’ (Glazz Music) ‘Paser y vean’/ ‘El lanzador de cuchillos’
Top 20 listings heading your way
1. Dr. John ‘Locked down’ (Nonesuch) Key tracks: ‘Locked down’/’Revolution’/’Getaway’/’God’s sure good’
2. Various ‘Philadelphia International Classics: The Tom Moulton Remixes (Harmless) O’Jays ‘Backstabbers’/Robert Upchurch ‘The Devil made me do it’/Intruders ‘I’ll always love my mama’ and a whole lot more!
3. Gregory Porter ‘Be good’ (Motéma) ‘Mother’s song’/ ‘Real good hands’/ ‘On my way to Harlem’/’Work song’
4. Lars Danielsson ‘Liberetto’ (ACT) ‘Orange market’/ ‘Svensk Lat’/ ‘Day one’
5. Carmen Lundy ‘Changes’ (Afrasia) ‘So beautiful’ / ‘Dance the dance’/ ‘Love thy neighbour’
6. Sory Kandia Kouyaté ‘La voix de la révolution’ (Sterns) ‘Siiba’ /’Douga’/ ‘Nina’
7. Niney the Observer ‘Deep Roots Observer Style’ (VP) Dennis Brown ‘If you’re rich, help the poor’/ Heptones ‘Temptation, botheration and tribulation’ /I-Roy ‘Jah is my light’
8. Chico Buarqué ‘Chico. The definitive collection 1970-1984’ (Wrasse) ‘Essa moça tá diferente’/ ‘O que será’/ ‘Samba de grande amor’/’Vai pasar’
9. Phronesis ‘Walking dark’ (Edition) ‘Suede trees’/ ‘Upside down’/ ‘Eight hours’
10. Brad Mehldau ‘Ode’ (Nonesuch) ‘26’/ ‘M.B.’/ ‘G.H.’
11. Various ‘Cumbia Cumbia’ (World Circuit) Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros ‘Cumbia del monte’ / Rodolfo y su Tipica ‘La colegiala’ / Guillermo Gonzalez y su Orquesta ‘Lupita’
12. Caetano Veloso & David Byrne ‘Live at Carnegie Hall’ (Nonesuch) ‘(Nothing but) flowers’/ ‘Coraçao vagabundo’ / ‘Terra’
13. Vijay Iyer ‘Accelerando’ (ACT) ‘Star of a story’/’Human nature’ /’Accelerando’
14. Eric Bibb ‘Deeper in the well’ (Dixie Frog/Harmonia Mundi)’Dig a little deeper in the well’/’No further’/’Sinner man’
15. Various ‘Sounds for the soul underground (Freestyle) Jessica Lauren ‘Mr G’/’Jo Stance ‘Hey girl’/ Nick Van Gelder ‘Something’s gotta give’
16 Le Super Borgou de Parakaou ‘The Bariba Sound’ (Analog Africa) ‘Sembe Sembe Boudou’ / ‘Me ton le gne’/ ‘Wegne Nda M’Banza’
17. Anayah ‘The One’ (Jazzman) ‘Guiding light’/ ‘Let God come first’ / ‘The one’
18. Monty Alexander ‘Harlem-Kingston Express Live!’ (Motéma) ‘King Tubby meets the Rockers uptown’/ ‘The heathen’/’Running away’
19. Joyce ‘Rio de Janeiro’ (Far Out) ‘Samba de Carioca’/ ‘As mariposa’/ ‘Puro ouro’
20. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly ‘The Essential’ ‘We are one’/’Happy feelin’’/’Joy and Pain’
Mostly Jazz, Funk & Soul Festival – First Artists Announced
The Mostly Jazz Festival is back… well almost!
The Mostly Jazz Festival is set to return on 29th, 30th June & 1st July 2012 as The Mostly Jazz, Funk & Soul Festival.
Doing exactly what it says on the tin, The Mostly Jazz, Funk & Soul Festival offers a blistering weekend of Jazz, Funk & Soul with a host of household names bringing the party atmosphere back to Moseley Park!
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