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