Tim Doyle

City Swamp

By Jake Long

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ideological Rubble; Celestial Soup; Swamp; Silhouette.

Jake Long: City Swamp

by Chris May
May 3, 2024

Drummer, composer and producer Jake Long's house-rocking City Swamp is part of a trilogy of post-2022 albums out of London's underground jazz scene which are connected by adjacent sources of inspiration, identical creative processes, and crossovers of personnel. Synchronicity and zeitgeist are writ large and, much of the time, in neon. The other two albums are ...

Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions

By Gary Bartz

Label: Night Dreamer
Released: 2020
Track listing: Harlem To Haarlem; The Stank; Leta��s Dance; Uhuru Sasa; Dr Follows Dance.

Gary Bartz & Maisha: Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions

by Chris May
May 8, 2020

This international spiritual-jazz jam promises much and delivers most of it. On the one hand, Gary Bartz, who is among the movement's American elder statesmen. On the other, Maisha, six young Londoners. The backstory: The wedding planner who brought the parties together is the London DJ and founder of Brownswood Recordings, Gilles Peterson. ...

Cykada: Cykada

by Chris May
March 12, 2019

Cykada has been making waves on London's genre-melting alternative-jazz scene since 2017, but has yet to acquire a profile akin to those of some of the other bands with which its musicians are involved. These include spiritual-jazz septet Maisha and the Afrobeat-infused Ezra Collective. The release of Cykada, however, is going to strap a booster rocket ...

Brussels Jazz Festival 2019

by Martin Longley
February 15, 2019

Brussels Jazz Festival Flagey Brussels, Belgium January 10-19, 2019 The Brussels Jazz Festival is a relative newcomer, but this ambitious 10-dayer managed to sell out around two thirds of its gigs, and was overall the most successful in attendance for this fifth edition. Concerts are held in the ...