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A brilliant new cut from Raffy Bushman, the London-based pianist and composer, whose debut EP last year, 'Look Up', certainly caught our attention and found a home on many respectable playlists too.

Raffy's spirited and melodic piano playing is a joy to hear on "Abraham". Supported by Nubiyan Twist's Finn Booth on drums and Mikele Montolli, hailing from Verona via Graz, on bass. 

Raffy gained praise and recognition far afield for his direction of Unit 31,  a music and visual arts collective of serious impact in London. He also founded the NuShape Orchestra, collaborating with Nubiya Brandon on 'All Kinds of Limbo' a transportative musical VR experience at The National Theatre.

After an impressive debut last year, Raffy looks set to go from strength to strength, from all indications.

Exclusive Premiere: Raffy Bushman "Abraham" (Forthcoming on Bridge The Gap)

Takumi Kaneko (cro-magnon) 1st solo piano album "Unwind" 

all tracks composed & performed by Takumi Kaneko 

cat # : JSPCDK-1017 / Jazzy Sport 
Price : ¥1,500 ( w/o tax) 
Release date : 2013.9.18


Available on bandcamp now with high quality sounds 
http://jazzysport.bandcamp.com/album/unwind

Track List
01.This world today
02.Dreams
03.Open the Galaxy
04.Somewhere
05.G.O.A.T
06.Unwind
07.L.E.S
08.Love Lost
09.Glow
10.Radio Taiso 2075
11.Garden
12. I said so
13.Dawn
14.Perspective
15.Peace & Love

"Unwind" official MV  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br6eX0FHeCk


Takumi Kaneko / Unwind snippet

Big Crown Radio returns with a very special episode from our friend Double Peas. She made a killer mix of records with female leads and asked us to make sure it comes out on International Women's Day. So here is "Everyday Is International Women's Day" from one of the baddest women in the record game hands down. She's a member of Hot Peas & Butta and Sundown Soul Club. Catch her playing records anywhere you can and it is guaranteed to be right on.

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doublepeas

BCR Radio 041 - Every Day Is International Women's Day

BCR Radio Episode 041 - Double Peas - Everyday Is International Women's Day

Kratos Himself - Till We Meet Again 
Gonzales - Meischeid 
Stan Tracey Quartet - Starless And Bible Black 
Japaneese Jazz - Unknown 
Gonzales - Rideaux Lunaires 
John Klemmer - Constant Throb 
The Greg Foat Group - For A Breath I tarry 
Nucleus - Ariadne 
Clifford Jordan - John Coltraine
Japaneese Jazz - Unknown 
P.e Hewitt Jazz Ensemble - More Than Anything 
Second Direction - Flying Carpet Ride Interlude 
The Greg Foat Group - Girl And Robot With Flowers (Part 6) Outro 
Interlude (Ronnie Scotts) 


First and foremost Rebecca Vasmant has a deep obsession with music and sound and from a young age has always been interested in how sound works. This obsession has lead onto becoming one of the most cutting edge DJs around playing all genres of music within sets. Techno, House, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Disco and world music are all predominant in her sets, bringing her love of both electronic and live music onto the dance floor. Known for being credible and unique, Rebecca has made a huge blast onto the scene. Having headlined in over twenty two countries worldwide, she is fast becoming an established name within the industry. Brazil, Nicaragua, Africa, India, Dubai, Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Spain, Bosnia, Istanbul, Latvia, and Austria already under her belt and with Mexico and Brazil to come, being resident for Cabret Volataire Edinburgh and having played at places like We Love Space Ibiza, Zoo Project Ibiza, Back To Basics Leeds, We Love Sankeys Manchester, The Arches Glasgow, Sub Club Glasgow, Buff Club and Saundhaus Glasgow, Snafu Aberdeen, Rockness festival, The wickerman festival, The Tunnel Aberdeen, Cabret Volataire Edinburgh, Bongo Club, GRV and the Caves Edinburgh, Soulist Soundsystem Paris, Turnmills London, Ministry Of Sound London, East Village Shoredich, Public Life London and Pacha London, Also having headlined the Warehouse Bristol alongside Tommy Four Seven and Tania Von Pear, Open Air Festival in Milan quarterly and the Arches with Sebastian Leger, and not to forget her regular warehouse parties in her hometown of Glasgow her name is ever rising in the Electronic Music Scene. Playing along sides the likes of Dave Clarke, Tom Middleton, Greg Wilson, DJ Format, X-press 2, SLAM, Green Velvet, DJ Pierre, Silicon Soul, Funk D Void, Billy Nasty, Justin Robertson, Terry Farley, Tommy Four Seven, Chris Leibing, Edit Select, Erol Alkin, Mylo, Riva Starr, Jo Mills, Dj Falcon, Milton Jackson, 6th Borough Project, Underground Paris, Fabio Monesi, Cottam, Red Rack Em, Paul Oakenfold, Joey Negro, Shit Robot, Tania Von Pear, Luciano, Hans Bouffmyre, Larry Tee and of course Harri and Domenic of Glasgow to name a few and fronting a monthly residency in Glasgow alongside James Johnston, Rebecca is also set to line up alongside many more... As a Producer Rebecca has had releases on labels such as Universal Music, Amour recordings and various others and is currently working on a first album due to drop late 2013, as well as collaborating with some of the best names in the underground house and techno scene as well as working on various live Jazz projects under her second alias which will see her name grow even further. Rebecca will be launching her own label in 2014 which will see the collaboration of various Jazz artists, musicians and electronic musicians working together to create a fusion project pushing music to the forefront of scenes which less contemporary styles of this music would perhaps not normally be seen within. On top of all of this Rebecca hosts a monthly party in her hometown of Glasgow alongside James Johnston (No Matter What Records) which has seen names such as Tom Middleton, Jeremy Underground (My Love Is Undergound), Terry Farley, Fabio Monesi (Wilson Records), Milton Jackson, Cottam and 6th Borough Project, with names such as Rick Wade, Terrance Parker, Kez Ym and many more to come Rebecca also promotes a bi monthly record fair at the Sub Club in Glasgow which sees many labels and vendors trading records, allowing people to come together for a day to appreciate music and support record sales. Labels such as Jazzman Records, Soma Records, Starla Records and many independent vendors trading Jazz, Funk, Latin, Classic Disco, Nothern Soul, World Music and many more regularly trade at the event as well as live art and music on the day.

Rebecca Vasmant - Jazz Mixtape Winter Edition

Today's atmpospheric exclusive comes from a MIMS favourite of late, Robohands, as we share "Claws", forthcoming on Bastard Jazz.

Robohands, aka Andy Baxter, joins the Bastard Jazz family with a new EP titled “Giallo.” Partly inspired by Italian Giallo (meaning “yellow”) film soundtracks of the late 70s and 80s, as well as the experimental sounds of pioneering krautrock bands like Tangerine Dream and NEU! Armed with an old Juno 60 synthesizer, Andy wrote, recorded, and mixed all the parts himself, including the live drums, adding in multiple layers of effects.

Spread across 8 tracks, “Giallo” spans atmospheric meditations (“Giallo;” “Claws;” “Relax”) to jazzy improvisational explorations (“Fear”), interwoven with brief solo instrumental tapestries (“Horror;” “Float By Like Clouds;” “For the Different”). There is an elegant cinematic quality to the EP, further refined by Robohands’ production prowess and technical chops. “Giallo” builds on the Robohands sound, taking it in an exciting, more experimental direction.

Exclusive Premiere: Robohands "Claws" (Forthcoming on Bastard Jazz)

Hi Everybody, I’m very happy to be back with a new MFT Radio show and a very special guest : Soul Supreme from Amsterdam. 

The great musician and producer known for his great Hip-Hop and Jazz-Funk Covers put together a great hour mix session featuring his favorite tracks and main influences which shows he’s a serious head; from 70’s Soul Funk (J.R. Bailey, Odyssey, Caesar Frazier), Soul Fusion Jazz (Tarika Blue, Brother Jack McDuff,Steve Kuhn, Don Blackman), Spiritual Jazz (Weldon Irvine, Gary Bartz) and a brazilian music lover. (Hyldon, Orlandivo)
As Usual I have started this new session with my best last digging tracks from Deep Jazz like the last Greg Foat, a brand new fusion French band called Jéroboam and the killer african jazz by Gyedu-Blay Ambolley to some great club jazz tracks incuded the Last Dego and K15 projects, Turbojazz and a killer Broken Beat Bomb by Szajna.
Enjoy !

MY FAVORITE THINGS — Show #42 w/ Soul Supreme (Hosted by Psycut)

Paula Juana  is joined by legendary The Funkees drummer and founding member: Chyke Madu.
The Funkees were an afro-rock group formed in Nigeria in 1969. It wasn't long before promoters ithe UK came calling and they packed up their instruments and moved to London where they quickly established a fierce reputation on the live circuit and quickly gained prominence in the expatriate West African and West Indian music scene. They specialised in funky, upbeat, highly dance able afro-rock. Chyke, born in 1949 in Lagos, joins PJ to tell us the story of The Funkees.

Soundway with The Funkees

In celebration of Horace Silver's life in music, Gilles Peterson puts together a mix of his finest work, spanning a 30 year career on Blue Note Recordings. 

A master of the keys and the sax, Horace played alongside Miles Davis on a number of legendary albums, and he passed away June 18th, 2014.  

Horace Silver - Senor Blues (Vocal Version)
Horace Silver - Doin’ The Thing Intro
The Horace Silver Quintet - The Baghdad Blues
The Horace Silver Quintet - Let’s Get To The Nitty Gritty
The Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father
Horace Silver - The Sophisticated Hippie
The Horace Silver Quintet - That Healin' Feelin’
Horace Silver - In Pursuit Of The 27th Man
Horace Silver - Time And Effort
The Horace Silver Quintet & J.J. Johnson - The Cape Verdean Blues
The Horace Silver Quintet -  Nica’s Dream
Horace Silver - Psychedelic Sally
Horace Silver - Togetherness
Horace Silver - The Gods Of The Yoruba
The Horace Silver Quintet - Ah! So
Horace Silver - I’ve Had A Little Talk
Horace Silver - The Outlaw
The Horace Silver Quintet - Tokyo Blues
The Horace Silver Quintet - The Jody Grind
Horace Silver - Ecaroh



Horace Silver's Blue Note Years Mix

Ryo Kawasaki talks about cult 70s fusion group Tarika Blue. Their two albums, "Tarika Blue" and "The Blue Path" were very unique and influential when they came out and remain vital to this day. Here are a few of my favourite tracks from them and watch out for the full conversation with Ryo soon on WorldwideFM.

Tracks featured:

Tarika Blue - Dream Flower
Tarika Blue - Revelation
Tarika Blue - Truth Is The Key
Tarika Blue - Things Spring

Ryo Kawasaki on Tarika Blue

For the season of mists and mellow modalness.

I've just uploaded a new Autumn Jazz mix in a similar style to this one: https://soundcloud.com/mark-wayward/when-there-is-no-sun-autumn-mix

It Ain’t Necessarily So - Mary Lou Williams
Modal Forces - Fritz Pauer
Blue Mosque - Ian Carr and Don Rendell
Eboness - Yusef Lateef
Del's Theme - George Braith
I Miei Recordi - Marco Di Marco
Communion – James Tatum
The Devil is a Woman – Ada Moore
Flamenco Sketches – Frank Minion
Alex The Great – Harold Mabern
Tell Me a Bedtime Story – Herbie Hancock
Amalgam – Dudley Moore Trio
Jeansy – Novi Singers
Just a Little Lovin’ – Sarah Vaughan

Mostly Modal

Dj Cam radio show every month on www.lemellotron.com

Sex On The Beach Vol 1 by Dj Cam

Order vinyl / CD / digital: https://bbemusic.lnk.to/SaturdayNightSpecial
In association with DJ Amir’s 180 Proof Records, BBE is honoured to present another gem from the small yet significant Strata catalogue. A precursor to New York’s Strata East, Detroit’s Strata Records was founded in the late 1960s by former Blue Note artist Kenny Cox. Starting life as a music-led community organisation, coffee shop studio and venue, Strata released only a few titles as a record label, gaining the imprint a cult following among record collectors and jazz lovers across the globe.
Possibly the best known of Strata’s releases, The Lyman Woodard Organization’s ‘Saturday Night Special’ is rightly heralded as a jazz fusion classic. Recorded in 1975, ‘Saturday Night Special’ features organ, electric piano and Mellotron by bandleader Lyman Woodard alongside guitar and bass by Ron English, with drums and percussion by Leonard King, Bud Spangler & Lorenzo “Mr. Rhythm” Brown respectively. Despite the fairly sparse instrumentation, ‘Saturday Night Special’ lays down an impressive wall of sound, powerfully atmospheric in its almost low-fi aesthetic. Hinting at more traditional jazz, rhythm & blues, afro-cuban styles and more, the uniqueness of this album is surely in its feel: summoning up images of a vast industrial landscape, assembly lines and urban decay. In other words, this record sounds like Detroit.
No great album artwork is complete without a good story to match, and ‘Saturday Night Special’ does not disappoint. Snapped by photographer and political activist Leni Sinclair (responsible for seminal pictures of Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and John Coltrane and many others), the cover image shows the contents of Lyman Woodard’s pockets placed on the hotel bed after a show: cigarette papers, cash and a pistol.
Following Woodard’s death in 2009, this incredible album was reissued in highly limited numbers by Wax Poetics; now just as hard to come by as the original pressings. It’s our pleasure to make this important and influential chapter in the story of contemporary jazz available on vinyl once again.

The Lyman Woodard Organization - Creative Musicians

Cal Tjader was one of the hardest working musicians in Jazz who mastered countless instruments and rose through the ranks working with Verdadero Cuban and Afro-Latin musicians, deviating from the popular Exotica style of the times. When he finally came into his own in the Verve/Fantasy years, his creative talent was matched with sublime audio engineering delivering a crisp and unique sound. From the extended bongo rhythms to the soothing sounds of the vibraphone, Cal was a visionary who managed to bring a new attention to Latin music without compromise. The epitome of Latin Jazz can be discovered through this tribute mix to the Master Tjader.

For TRACKLIST: http://bit.ly/2EAGvXr

MIMS Tribute Mixes

TRACKLIST

Tribute to CAL TJADER - Selected & Mixed by DJ ASMA

L.O.V.E - Nat King Cole

The B side of Danny Akalepse’s Lost & Looking / My Heaven… cassette. "My Heaven" is a mix of Jamaican slowies. B sides of 45s and album cuts that range from soul ballads to doo-wops to mid-tempos, all with a JA twist. There’s a whole world of these, this is just a cassette side’s worth. Dim lights, have a nice evening.

Mostly Modal

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