JbM and Dexter Madrid JazzHouse Sessions

Another sample mix capturing recent back to back sets from me and Dex; I again took our set lists and mixed selected tracks from them... There were obviously too many trax to cram in to one mix - even with Part 2 to come, I struggle to do justice to the breadth of music on offer - but I think these mixes are a fair representation of the eclectic but consistently jazz-flecked brand of deep, warm and soulful house we both favour. 

JBM & Dexter Madrid - Summer Session 2013 pt1

Better late than never, the second part of our 'snapshot' mix summarising our jazz-house sets of this summer and I hope worth the wait. When looking at our playlists, we were surprised at the number of recurring favourites (e.g. so many Atjazz remixes, the return of Italy's favourite sons of groove-driven jazz, Nicola Conte and Gerardo Frisana, in our selections) and this mix, like the last one, testifies to that. Listening to it again, I'm pleased that it captures our determination to blend solid, soulful jazz-infused house with more obviously musician-led but still dancefloor worthy trax. Enough explanation - it's a good 'un...! 

JbM & Dexter Madrid's Summer Tour 2013 pt 2

Returning to that joyous collision of jazz, jazz fusion and house grooves that has peppered by sets and mixes for decades now.

TRACKLIST:
Maulawi - Street Rap (DJ Amir & Re.decay Jazz Re.Constructed Remix)
Billy Cobham feat. Novecento - Interactive (Louie Vega Remix)
Manuel Kane - I Can't Believe It (Original Mix)
PCJ Project - Manussa (Lego Edit)
The Blackbyrds - Mysterious Vibes (Sean McCabe Classic rework)
Horatio Luna - Milestones (Miles Davis Tribute)
Delfonic & Kapote - Yam Sallam
Jack Tennis - Jorge's Pipa
Placa Luminosa - Os Olhos de Vera (Aroop Roy Rework)
DJ Phatrick - Love Is Everywhere (Extended Edit)
Tenderlonious - Song For My Mother
Billy Cobham feat. Novecento - Roller (The Reflex Revision)
DJ Kemit & Luke Austin Present The Lounge Lizards - Intro To Dance
Ash Lauryn - Life Is Back (Kai Alce Life Is Sweet Interpretation)
Santana - Samba De Sausalito (Mr K Edit)
Felipe Gordon feat. Toro Moratto - The Colombian Excursions Of House Music

Back 2 The JazzHouse, Winter 2021

Welcoming in the New Year with another celebration of the intersection of jazz, jazz fusion and house grooves that I often find so inspiring. This mix is deliberately buoyant and energetic as I started pulling it together for New Year's Eve and wanted to greet the year with a suitably positive vibe!

TRACKLIST:
Anthony Joseph - Swing Praxis (Kaidi Tatham Remix)
Walter G & Max Marinacci - Need Rhythm (Nu Yazz Mix)
Daisuke Miyamoto - Jazz Burns (Original Mix)
Zepherin Saint pres. Lush Life - Lush Funk
Dirtytwo - Hageby In Your Eyes (JKriv Remix)
Turbojazz - The New Bell
Peppe Citarella - Organ Ride (Union Afro Demo Mix)
Ken@Work - Talkin' Jazz (Original Mix)
Saison - Man Of Soul (Original Mix)
DJ Fede - Ghana (Original Mix)
Jovonn - Get Together (Jovonn BND Remix)
Billy Cobham feat. Novecento - Shining Sun (Late Night Tuff Guy Remix)
Pavel Svetlove - Jazzy Piano
Malik Alston - Linwood (It's the Groove)
Tania Alves - Fankiando Planador (Aroop Roy Rework)

Back 2 The JazzHouse - New Year Swinging 2022

Funny thing this 'jazz' malarkey - for example, some folks regard my Jazz Loungin' mixes as just, well, 'too jazzy' (... yep, a phrase I hear sometimes). But that shouldn't be a problem here, given this mix features tracks that offer jazz flavour and musicality that is very much tailored for dancefloor action. You might also call much of this 'headphone house' (even though some grooves veer beyond basic four-to-the-floor rhythms) as it should reward diligent listening too, particularly if you don't mind a bit of head-nodding and foot-twitching at the same time. This is also another mix that gets close to my roots as a DJ - eclectic dance music, with plenty of imagination, soul, and creativity!

TRACKLIST:
Berlioz - Wash My Sins Away
N.W.N. - This Is Jazz (Origninal Mix)
Cotonete - Super Vilain Wants Love (DJ Deep & Romain Poncet Remix)
Vick Lavender - Shifting Gears (Vick Lavender's Time Traveler Mix)
Jo Paciello - Platform N9 (Extended Mix)
Chris Bangs - F Groove
Dazzle Drums feat. Hironori Doi - Arktis (Club Mix)
Truby Trio - Carajillo (Jazzanova Remix)
musclecars - Sol (K15 Remix)
Mistura Pura - Street Beat
Stan Smith - UNWU (Don Kamares Mix)
Lush Life x Zepherin Saint - SOML
Krewcial - Faubourg (Original Mix)
Koichi Toyama - Little Black Samba
Delfonic & Kapote - Broadway Rejam
Tumblack - Cariba (Felipe Gordon Edit)
DJ Popinjay - Jazz Spiced Disco (Origin Mix)
Max Sedgely feat. Tasita D'Mour - Gotta Get Up (King Kooba's Jazzual House Relik)
Max Sedgely feat. Tasita D'Mour - Gotta Get Up (King Kooba's String Theory Rub)
Roy Ayers - Brand New Feeling (Phil Asher Main Mix)
Jorge Bezerra - Kabiecle (Atjazz Remix)

Back 2 The JazzHouse Spring 2024

Pulling together a recent set (and mix) after being asked to 'avoid the jazz stuff' then leads me, almost inevitably, to do the opposite... So, here, we have a set that is largely (although not solely) powered by jazz-fuelled dance tracks, alongside some soulful, swinging deep house grooves. It's not jazz, it's not even all house music, and some of it deserves a little closer listening in addition to the odd shimmy and shake.... But give it a listen and judge for yourself!

Back 2 The JazzHouse, Winter 2025

My seasonal sets with Dex continue with another spring/summer tour, capturing our back-to-back selections as we bring jazz-inspired house and eclectically soulful dance grooves to a broad-minded audience. This is the first instalment of 2015, reflecting what are proving to be our most varied session to date. I am working through our joint playlists and part 2 is on the way...
PLAYLIST:
Floating Points - Nectarines
Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit(Claptone Remix)
Peppe Citarella - The Flute (Afro Mix Edit)
Leotone - All Around (Jazz Maestro Style)
Joseph Junior & MAQman - Praise Scat (Original Mix)
Loftsoul - Soul Inspiration
Mop Mop - African Freedom
Guti - Rompe Corazones (Charles Webster's Broken Hearted Reprise Mix)
Homero Espinosa - Blues In A Rose (Unreleased Jazz Mix)
Honeysweet, Josh Milan - Train To Mexico (Honeycomb Mix)
Ferry Ultra - Jazzinezz
Nicola Conte ft. Tasha's World - Uhuru
Guti - El Solitario (Carl Craig Remix)

JbM & Dexter Madrid's Summer Tour 2015 - the jazz-house sessions

Part 2 of our 2015 summer set selection; picking up where the last mix left off, with more jazz-drenched dance tracks recently chosen by Dex and I for our back-to-back sessions.

TRACKS:
Kid Fonque & D Malice & Mark Clive De Lowe - Word Up
Kiko Navarro, DJ Fudge, Dono, Cosmic - Babalu Aye (Cosmic Dub)
Marcos Valle - Freio Aerodynamico
DJ Christos feat. Monique Bingham - Outta Sight (Ralf Gum & Raw Artistic Soul Remix)
Ralf Gum feat. Hugh Masekela - With Her Hand (Ralf Gum Main Mix)
Louie Vega feat. Axel Tosca - Sunlight (Louie Vega Roots Mix with Axel Solo)
Git feat. Big Brooklyn Red - Higher (Yoruba Soul Mix)
Josh Milan - Fort Greene's Theme (Main Mix)
Kevin Yost - Darkness Into Light
Elements Of Life feat. Josh Milan - Berimbau (Timmy Regisford & Adam Rios Retouch Mix)
Jackson Conti feat. Madlib - Plateau Pt.1
Random Soul and Vincent Kwok - Don't Tell Me It's Over (Vincent Kwok's Brasileino Mix)
Gerardo Frisina - Communications
DJ Aguy pres. Black Silk - Floating (Black Silk Guitar Dub)

JbM & Dexter Madrid's Summer Tour 2015 Part 2 - the jazz-house sessions

Dex and I return for our annual back-to-back sessions of jazz-marinated house music. This is an excerpt of the full set - as varied a selection as ever - with more to follow...

TRACKLIST:
Ambient Jazz Ensemble - The Journey (Leftside Wobble Mix)
Glenn Underground - Man On Fire
Rocco - P3 Jazz (Peacey's Down Town Dub)
DJ Spen, Todd terry - Stone Fox Chase (Damond Ramsey 83 South Remix)
Jazzy Funk - Don't Worry Bout A Thing (Situation Remix)
Louie Vega starring Zara McFarlane - Because We Love It (Album Mix)
Chanan Hanspal - It's Only A Garden (Kay Suzuki Intrumental Groove Remix)
Norman Connors - Stella (Joey Negro Jazzy Ride)
Jay Nemor - Everyday (Addvibe Deepfro Mix)
Bugge Wesseltoft & Friends - Faz It
C. Forman, D. Bennet, R. Medina - Spiritual Life (Orginal Mix)
Kai Alce feat. Rico and Kafele Bandele - Take A Chance (Kai Alce Original NDATL Instrumental #1)


JbM & Dexter Madrid Early Spring Tour 2016 pt.1

Dex and I hit the road again a month or so back with our eclectic jazz-coated deep house blend... and, as before, here is a mix of some of the highlights of our back-to-back sessions. 

TRACKLIST:
Kings of Tomorrow - Vibes
Abicah Soul - A Jazz Affair (Original Mix)
Nick Holder - Shades Of Delight
Alex Ander - Whispers (Bruno Soares Live Sax Mix)
Jazzanova feat. Paul Randolph - Now There Is We (Kuniyuki Deep Remix)
Papik feat. Stefy Gamboni & Daniele Bengi Benati - Brivido Felino (Mark Di Meo Jazz Mix)
Jazzuelle - The Vollard Suite (Original Mix)
Hokuto Sato - Jazz On The Moon
Octopuz -  Suddenly (Jazzy Ride Mix)
Seb Wildblood - Jazz Vol.1
Jazzmake - Comunication
Lawrence Olridge - Jazz Groove
Husky - D-Fine Jazz
Guido Franceschelli - Jazztrap
Dual Sessions - Strangers in the Jazz (Piano Edit)

In selecting the music for this mix, I cheekily chose from our playlists many of those tunes that had jazz in the title (be it artist, track or mix name) after a 'debate' we had with a barroom 'expert' who objected to our use of the phrase 'jazz-house', even though we tried to explain to him we weren't making any great claims for it and were not interested in genre boundaries.

Also, future such mixes are likely to be once-a-year offerings at best as, from next year, Mr Madrid has decided to return to his nomadic beach-bar existence and my work and family life is restricting the number of times we can get together in far-flung destinations for these back-to-back sessions, so savour them while you can!

(And, as always, if you like any of the trax you should explore them and the outputs of the artists further - all this music and much more is on sale from your favourite online vendor!)

Dexter Madrid & JbM's Late Summer 2016 Tour Pt.1

Long live the jazz-house sessions! It's been close to 3 years since I last had the pleasure of spinning tunes and talking records with the global beachcombing, wandering vagabond DJ and walking music encyclopaedia that is Dexter Madrid.

As the chances of us reuniting are currently a little slim, I thought I'd keep the flame alive by producing at least one mix a year in tribute to our great back-to-back sessions (perhaps in the hope of tempting Dex out of semi-retirement... or whatever is keeping him busy and off the grid these days). We always wished to fuse our shared passion for jazz, in its many forms, with our love of deep (and soulful) house music and this is exactly what I hope to keep on doing (perhaps until we get back together and back-to-back).

As I've said many times before, if any of this takes your fancy, seek out and buy some music from these artists and their peers (far more nourishing for the soul and the artist's livelihood than that streaming malarkey!).

TRACKLIST:
Ritmo Y Tumbao - Lower East Side
Opolopo feat. Hubert Laws and Gregory Porter - I Tell The Story
Ron Trent - Jazz Funk Freedom
The Boogieman/Pleasure - Joyous (Snack Machine Jazzy House Mix)
Kyoto Jazz Sextet - Rising (Ron Trent Remix)
Clementson - In The Name Of Jazz (Di Meo Bros Session Mix)
Joan Bibiloni - The Boogie
Vick Lavender - Portuguese Love (Sophisticado full demo VLE instrumental)
Aaron Tesser & The New Jazz Affair - Stella (Guido Nemola Remix)
Mannix - The World Is A Ghetto (Original Mix)
Una feat. Kolai - Soul Underground 2018 (Dub Flute Mix)
Studio Apartment feat. Monique Bingham - Flight (Nulife Vocal Mix)
DJ Violette - Mots Et Cordes
Nadirah Shakoor - Just A Breat Away (Hi-Perspective Remix)

Long live the jazzhouse sessions - JbM's Tribute to Dexter Madrid 2019

A sample excerpt from a recent back-to-back set from Dexter and I, showcasing the sort of warm deep house and jazz inflected club grooves from around the globe that inspire our cheeky edits.

JbM & Dexter Madrid's World Tour Mix part 1

Another mix highlighting the sets from recent back-to-back sessions featuring Dexter and I, again showcasing the sort of warm deep house and jazz inflected club grooves that inspire our cheeky edits series. We had great fun selecting the tracks and our initial playlists would have taken days to get through, but I hope you appreciate the (second part of the) selected highlights!

JbM & Dexter Madrid's World Tour Mix part 2

Like so many others, I started DJing as an extension of my record collecting and partying, the main intention being to celebrate and promote the music that had become such a central part of my life. I started collecting jazz, soul and funk in my late teens and by my mid-twenties had also started DJing occasionally in various small bars and warehouse parties. I subsequently became part of (and the resident DJ for) a number of club night and party promotion teams  - WordOfMouth, RIPE, SWDeep, Strange Fruit,  FRESH! and others... 

Musically, I was increasingly drawn to the house sounds that were emerging in the late 80s and 90s. While a revelation, this stuff also sounded to me like the contemporary expression of the music I had always loved, but with a renewed commitment to inspire people to dance. 

And I figured if I gained so much enjoyment from these great tunes then others would too. I suppose all of us who enjoy playing music for others to hear (and maybe dance to) are evangelists at heart.

More recently, this has led to forays into production and the odd record release (...NUSA Records still lives!). I try not to get too hung up or limited by genres and my shelves and hard drives host an ever-widening spectrum of music. 

That said, I find I always eventually return to my roots and, in my DJing, attempt to fuse contemporary grooves with those elements of black music that got me started on this journey.

JbM and Dexter Madrid JazzHouse Sessions

John 'jB' Mulligan