259 Jazz Now
A collection of recent releases (2020 – 2024) in the jazz genre, a selection picked by our resident experts Hugh and Nigel. Some lovely music, well appreciated by our audience too. Look up these bands if you like what we played.
Preshow
Title | Artists | Album | Year |
Fanfare | Mike Gibbs | Revisiting Tanglewood ’63: The Early Tapes | 2021 |
The Awakening – Daylight | Barbara Thompson | First Light | 2023 |
Coda | The Joe Harriott Quintet | Formation: Live ’61 | 2022 |
For Future Reference | Trevor Tomkins’ Sextant | For Future Reference | 2023 |
Refracted Rainbows | Neil Ardley and Zyklus | Kaleidoscopes and Rainbows [bonus track, 1996 reissue] | 1996 |
Main show
Emotional Storm | Avishai Cohen & Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Two Roses | 2021 |
Mr. Spock | Darby Todd | The Reality Of Zeros And Ones | 2021 |
Relentless Mind | Jihye Lee Orchestra | Daring Mind | 2021 |
Movement 7 | Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra | Promises | 2021 |
First Day | Manuel Valera featuring John Ellis and Alex Norris | Vessel | 2023 |
Warszawa | Paolo Fresu | Heroes Expanded | 2021 |
Terrain: II | Portico Quartet | Terrain | 2021 |
Party in the Attic | Verneri Pohjola | Monkey Mind | 2023 |
On the Horizon Part 2 | Hedvig Mollestad | Maternity Beat | 2022 |
Full Sun | Amy Gadiaga | All Black Everything | 2024 |
Morning Memories | ESINAM | Shapes in Twilghts of Infinity | 2021 |
Folie Urbaine | Bigre ! | Tchourou Mix Tape (feat. Cynthia Abraham) | 2023 |
Tojo | Kokoroko | Could We Be More | 2022 |
God Gave Me Feet For Dancing (feat. Yasmin Lacey) | Ezra Collective | Dance, No One’s Watching | 2024 |
Strange Love | EABS & Jaubi | In Search of a Better Tomorrow | 2023 |
Kirwani (Part I) | Tenderlonious feat. Jaubi | Ragas from Lahore: Improvisations with Jaubi | 2020 |
Namaskaram | Nick Walters | Padmāsana | 2023 |
Sajni | Arooj Aftab, Vijay Izer & Shahzad Ismailly | Love in Exile | 2023 |
seal | ganavya | like the sky I’ve been too quiet | 2024 |
Postshow
On Loan With Gratitude Parts 1, 2 and 3 | Stan Sulzmann | On Loan With Gratitude | 1977 |