Smooth Jazz  and Contemporary Jazz with a mixture of World , Funk , Fusion, Latin  and  R&B

Winds of Change

Airborne - Winds of Change

November 2023  *  December 2023  *  January 2024  *  February 2024  *  May 2024  

These five instrumental suites, from the Beats and Solos series, are inspired by jazz fusion, and House and Techno DJ practice.

The concept behind the Beats and Solos series was to produce, for each work, a musical base of lines and rhythms for improvised solos performed on saxophones, electronic wind instrument, keyboards and live percussion.

The suites move through different sections where the lead instrument changes based on the mood of the underlying part. Each suite is divided into parts that can be selected for play, but the best effect is for all parts to be played in sequence.

The titles of the suites indicate the month and year of composition and recording and are not intended to suggest a time of year. They are presented in the order of completion.  All composition, performance (all instruments), recording, and production by Thomas Parker Williams.  I use no samples or loops from any other source in my work.

13-November-to-May-May-2024-Part-1

composed by Albert Collins

Jonas Brogren: keyboards and production
Jens Fredholm: guitar
Karl Hugosson: bass
Jacob Brogren: tenor sax
TheLoopLoft/Omar Hakim: drums
mastering by Jon Rinneby

Sno-Cone

mani fredo feat lee ritenour - countdown ( remugged )

In The Rain

(193). BoM -  Funky Sweets Vol.5 - Machos

(Mix) 193. BoM -  Funky Sweets Vol.5 - Machos (Funk, Groove, Vintage Rhythms)

'White Tiger' is the 2nd single taken from Lightning Orchestra's forthcoming album Source and Deliver which is out on the 10th July. 

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White Tiger Lyrics
 
Freedom of Creation Ecstatic Celebration
white tigers in the sky
a bridge between yours and mine

the common place, the true divine

between these swells where two waves meet
we swim and dive and kill and die
mastery enfolds it’s prey inside

twixt pain and fear, laughter and mirth
oh I believe you, please say that forever
roll over and over, before into never

this passion so ghosted, alive in a mist
a nuclear explosion unleashed in a kiss
freedom of creation ecstatic celebration

white tigers in the sky

heed and devour the invitation
implode through the torus of no return
immersed in a white blindness
I knew what was there to know

through elastic barriers of darkness
moving inside what I am and will be

my God are you here, at my feet, on your knees
I’ll sink through the floor, 
please...please... please...
oh, and, what was your name again

Freedom of Creation Ecstatic Celebration
white tigers in the sky

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Lightning Orchestra - White Tiger (Radio Edit)

Nimbus Sextet - Trap Door (Album Version)

Nimbus Sextet - Trap Door (Single Mix Part One)

Ramrock Red Records are immensely chuffed to be unleashing ‘La Belle Bouche’ EP - the debut release from D.Foe, two reclusive, creative dropouts, who guard their privacy fiercely, making Daft Punk look like garrulous bon viveurs. The EP starts off with the dreamy and hugely evocative ‘The Heat’ – I close my eyes and I’m back in 1965 at the poolside’s edge in a chic Riviera hotel rocking a huge straw hat and sunglasses sipping a Campari. This is what a mirage sounds like…..’6ixty 8ight’ and the ‘D.Funk’ remix of the same track hark back to the halcyon days of Acid Jazz, Mo’ Wax + Talkin’ Loud all rolled into one. ‘Love and Hate’ is like an Italian Job car chase on steroids – tough jazz drumming, flute, sax interceptions, Hammond stabs – it’s all going on. And finally, ‘Priti Vacant’ featuring Mark Professor – draw your own conclusions – this ain’t no love song.
D.Foe are formally part of a ridiculously influential 1990’s music collective who saw no boundaries between genres, blurring the edges of the production process when working with music legends including Bowie, Pete Shelly, Grand Master Flash, Viv Stanshall, Mad Professor, Rico, Ian Dury and Brian Auger. They are true arbiters of taste, Sherpas of Sound scaling the steep + sometimes perilous inclines of Punk to descend into the valleys of LSD laced 60’s psyche and peak again on the MDA fueled outpourings of the 80’s. Tearing up the rule book and without revealing their identities, they are ranked amongst the very first to scratch, sample and loop; mixing, blending and mashing up Hip Hop, Jazz, Dub, Disco, Ska, Soul, Latin, and Funk.

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D.Foe - The Heat

www.acidjazz.co.uk

Formed back in the heady days of 1987 at the start of the ‘acieed’ explosion, Acid Jazz was the first of the groundbreaking new indie labels and paved the way for the likes of Mo Wax, Wall Of Sound and Talkin' Loud…

Initially a simple bedroom operation established by Eddie Piller and Gilles Peterson, within three months of the first 45 release (Galliano’s Frederic Lies Still), the label had grown rapidly, acquired premises in London’s east end and laid out a unique manifesto of alternative club sounds – jazz, street-soul, funk, latin, reggae and jazz poetry all put in an early appearance. Galliano, Chris Bangs, The Night Trains, The Last Poets, A Man Called Adam and Snowboy & The Latin Section were amongst the first wave of label signings and they all appeared live at groundbreaking jazz themed nights at London clubs like the WAG in Soho and Camden’s legendary Dingwalls.





By ’89, Peterson had left the label to establish his own Talking Loud imprint and Piller soon moved the operation to Denmark Street, London’s original Tin Pan Alley, into the former EMI music office. The next wave of signings included D Influence, Jamiroquai and The Brand New Heavies. Chart success quickly followed as the label spread its numerous tentacles around the world. The sound of the label became the name of choice for the scene that had established in its wake and by the early ’90s, Acid Jazz was booming out of a succession of speakers from Sweden to Singapore, Hamburg to Hobart, Shibuya to Sheffield and everywhere in between. International tours followed as the label expanded through the 90′s, gradually increasing their musical influences to include daisy-age hip hop, garage psyche and trip hop.





By the mid-90′s Acid Jazz had revived the careers of legends like Terry Callier, Brian Auger and Gregory Isaacs, established three subsidiaries (Focus, All Seeing Eye and Roots to cater for progressive indie, drum and bass and roots and culture respectively) and signed yet another wave of successful independent artists which included the likes of Corduroy, Mother Earth, The Humble Souls, Goldbug and a dozen more.





In 1994, the label took the plunge and opened the first ‘non-house’ based night club in London. Based on the site of the Bass Clef, a down-at-heel and eventually semi-derelict jazz club in Hoxton – perched precariously amidst the second world war bomb sites, derelict buildings and culture-free zone, the club was credited with paving the way for the whole Hoxton/Shoreditch explosion of the late nineties. Indeed, the club was rarely less than full seven nights a week hosting events from the likes of Goldie’s Metalheads, Talvin Singh, Coldcut, Ab-ashanti, Athletico and the label’s own Magic Bus. The Blue Note closed its doors at the end of the decade and Acid Jazz went back to what they do best: releasing records.

Jumping forward to 2014 and we find the label firmly ensconced in their office at the top of Brick Lane and after celebrating their 25th Anniversary the label is as vibrant and vital as ever. The current roster includes the critically acclaimed, prog folk fusions of Matt Berry, new indie hopefuls Dexters, the soul meet the Streets stylings of New Street Adventure and ex Bluetones lead singer Mark Morriss, whilst the highly acclaimed Rare Mod series has discovered and released previously unknown works by everyone from The Riot Squad featuring David Bowie to the Small Faces Steve Marriott.

In short after over a quarter of a century Acid Jazz remains one of the UK’s most important independent labels.


Nimbus Sextet - Trap Door (Single Mix Part One)

Acid Jazz Records

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