Jazz #2

The second of our Jazz mixes, reflecting it’s creative depth and contemporary currents.

There’s Jazz funk crusaders of conciousness such as Gil Scot Heron and Weldon Irvine, pioneers Yuseef Latif and Ahmad Jamal, and equally significant, contemporary voices Matthew Hasall, Jeff Parker, Comet is Coming, Spaza, Alabaster dePlume and Sons of Kemet which, by bringing elements of Hip Hop, Low-FI, Electronica and Rave into Jazz, are expanding its ever richer grammar.

1. Patterns Ahmad Jamal
2. Freedom Song Matthew Halsall
3. Build A Nest (Ft. Ruby Parker) Jeff Parker
4. Birth of Creation Comet Is Coming
5. Waiting for You Spaza Ice Squincies
6. Going Home Sons of Kemet
7. Bombay Stopover Alice Coltrane (Ft. Pharoah Saunders)
8. Be My Husband Nina Simone
9. Psychicemotus Yuseef Latif
10. Song of the Foundling Alabaster dePlume
11. Lady Day and John Coltrane Gil Scot Heron
12. I Love You Weldon Irvine

P.S Many thanks to Julian ‘Jazz’ Barrat – where’s those Electro pounces now?