Category: Jazz

• WATCH: Indigo Jam Unit are a supreme Japanese jazz act – Colin Curtis and Paul Murphy are delivering their album on Jazz Room Records

  

  Indigo Jam Unit are dropping their album on Jazz Room Records, DJ and enigma Colin Curtis is at the helm of the project. “The four musicians who came together in Osaka, Japan – Isao Wasano (drums,  percussion), Katsuhiko Sasai (bass, double bass), Takehiro Shimizu (drums), and Yoshichika Tarue (piano) – took no prisoners with their…

  WTM

  June 15, 2023

  Colin Curtis, Japan, Jazz, UK

  Indigo Jam Unit, Jazz, Jazz Room Records, Paul Murphy

• International Anthem: jaimie branch’s ‘FLY or DIE LIVE’ is new album from the Brooklyn jazz renegade, after peerless ambient LP by Carlos Niño & Friends and Damon Locks’ sublime ‘Black Monument’

  What an artist and what an event – International Anthem drop the digital recording of a masterpiece by Brooklyn-based trumpeter and singer jaimie branch – Her FLY or DIE LIVE is a double album recorded Live at Moods, Switzerland, capturing her quartet’s best-ever live performance. It’s another addition to the prolific label that continues to capture…

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  May 21, 2021

  ambient, International Anthem, Jazz

  Aaron Shaw, ambient, Angel Bat Dawid, Arif Smith, bass & vocals, Ben LaMar Gay, Brooklyn, Bryonna Young, Carlos Niño, Carlos Niño & Friends, cello & percussion, Chad Taylor, Cheyenne Spencer, Current, Damon Locks, Dana Hall, dancers, Devin Daniels., drums & mbira, Eric Tre’von, Erica Rene, FLY or DIE LIVE, International Anthem Recording Company, Jaimie Branch, Jamael Dean, Jamire Williams, Jason Ajemian, Jazz, Keisha Janae, Lester St. Louis, Mary Thomas, Monique Golding, Moods, More Energy Fields, multi-instrumentalists, Nate Mercereau, Phillip Armstrong, Piotr Orlov, Raven Lewis, Rayna Golding, Richie Parks, Sam Gendel, Shabaka Hutchings, singers, Switzerland, Tiarra Young, Tramaine Parker, trumpet & vocals, Zurich

• LABEL FEATURE: International Anthem Recording Company, their outstanding stable keeps expanding – featuring the pick of forthcoming releases and a look back at the 2020 treasure from their family of artists

  International Anthem are on fire right now, diversifying their avant-garde catalogue and continuing to redefine the parameters of jazz. Here’s part one of a WTM mix series dedicated to the label: And here’s a run down of some of the fantastic music that’s dropping over the next three months, as well as the constant heaters…

  WTM

  September 24, 2020

  International Anthem, Jazz, USA

  A Wrinkle in Time Sets Concentric Circles Reeling, ada adhiyatma, Angel Bat Dawid, Anteloper, Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes, Ben LaMar Gay, Brigitte Zozula, Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Chicago Underground, Darkhouse Family, Dimensional Stardust, Earl Jeffers, Emma-Jean Thackray, Exploding Star Orchestra, Hear In Now, Helago Negro, Heritage of the Invisible II, In Progress: Angel Bat Dawid, International Anthem Recording Company, Irreversible Entanglements, Isotope 217, Jaimie Branch, Jeff Parker & The New Breed, Joe Armon-Jones, Joel Ross, Junius Paul, Madam Data, Makaya McCraven, Marcos de la Fuente, Moor Mother, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Nick Sanders, Nicole Mitchell., Nubya Garcia, Pueblo, Quiet Dawn, Resavoir, Ricardo de León, Rob Mazurek, Theon Cross

• Jeff Parker continues to earn acclaim as second single ‘Go Away’ drops from his forthcoming LP ‘Suite For Max Brown’

  Musical polymath Jeff Parker – once of the iconic Chicago group Tortoise – has dropped his second single Go Away to more critical acclaim, following the release of the LP Suite for Max Brown the International Anthem label. He joins good company indeed with recent albums by jaimie branch, Junius Paul, Angel Bat Dawid, Makaya McCraven and Resavoir…

  WTM

  January 16, 2020

  International Anthem, Jazz, USA

  Angel Bat Dawid, International Anthem, Jaimie Branch, Jeff Parker, Junius Paul, Makaya McCraven, Resavoir, Suite For Max Brown, The New Breed