Tumi Mogorosi - LIVE

Great to see the South African drummer perform tracks from his marvellous ELO album - released on Jazzman earlier this year - with band and choir in France recently.

Please CLICK HERE to watch!

To buy the LP or CD, click HERE

What is Wrong with Groovin' - IS BACK!

This Saturday at The Alibi, Kingsland Rd, Hackney, London.

9 - 3am

Entrance is FREE!

See our FACEBOOK page for more details!

JUKEBOX MAMBO 2 LAUNCH PARTY

In anticipation of Jukebox Mambo 2, here is a date for your diary:

And the album in question:

Available in each of the following formats:

• 2LP + download card
• CD
• Digital Download
• 6x10" VINYL BOOK

Tracklisting:

1	Lincoln Chase	I Love Your many Ways
2	Christine Chatman w/ Peppy Prince Orchestra	Run Gal Run
3	Chris Powell & His Five Blue Flames	I Come From Jamaica
4	Zilla Mays	Calypso Blues
5	Johnny Oliver	All I Have Is You
6	Chuck Edwards	Morning Train
7	Oscar Saldana	Mambo Hop
8	Jimmy Nolen	Jimmy’s Jive
9	Four Blazes	All Night Long
10	Chanters	She wants To Mambo
11	Jeanne DeMetz w/ Johnny Alston Orchestra	Calypso Daddy
12	Camille Howard	Within This Heart Of Mine
13	Ashton Savoy	Denga Denga
14	Freddie Mitchell & His Orchestra	Later Gator
15	Note & Toe & The Grenadiers	I Got A Cold - Calypso
16	John McKinney & The Premiers	Gee I Love You
17	T-Bone Walker	Plain Old Down Home Blues
18	Ron Rico w/ Sax Kari Orchestra	Chano
19	Don Tosti y su Conjunto	Mambo Del Pachuco
20	Billy Emerson	Satisfied
21	Frank Motley	Wanda Landa Landa
22	Red Saunders	Summertime
BOOK ONLY	Chestnuts	Don’t Go
BOOK ONLY	Danny Overbea	Hey Pancho
BOOK ONLY	Alfredito & His Orchestra	Mambo From Mars
BOOK ONLY	Tiny Grimes & His Orchestra	Showboat Mambo

SPIRITUAL JAZZ 5 - THE WORLD

Spiritual Jazz 5: The World

2LP ~ CD ~ Download

In the shops early September - on our website late August!

Until it was swept aside by the pop explosion of the 1960s, jazz was the most popular modern sound on earth. From the New World and the Caribbean to Africa, across the Soviet Bloc and the British Empire to the Far East, jazz music was embraced, adopted, played and enjoyed. Having examined spiritual jazz as it was expressed in the US, and followed its messengers and influences in Europe, this fifth installment of our Spiritual Jazz series presents jazz from the rest of the world: a collection of jazz messages hailing from the four corners of the world that are united in their diverse treatment of the jazz idiom.

Jazz might have been the music of America, but in its beginnings it was not a purely American creation. The long story of its development stretches across the Atlantic, from Africa to the crucibles of slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas, both North and South. It was a music that ultimately emerged from the varied and resilient cultural achievements of Africans brought to the New World in bondage, and who brought with them a multiplicity of musical traditions. Evolution and development continued and, like a dandelion dispersing its airborne seeds via the wind, the sounds of jazz were carried around the world on the airwaves, record sales and by travelling musicians. In whichever continent the form took root, the individual, ethnic and cultural circumstances of the musicians decided the flavours and nuances of the jazz they created.

This volume of Spiritual Jazz presents some of the rarest and most extraordinary global jazz recordings. We have covered some of the wider world’s best known yet still underexposed jazz scenes – places such as Argentina and South Africa, as well as some of the world’s most obscure. There are recordings here made for major labels, and recordings issued privately. Very few of them have seen any release outside of their country of original prior to this collection. But all of them speak of a period when jazz was a global musical lingua franca, spoken with ease by musicians who headed out into the night to produce their own distinctly local translations.

This is esoteric jazz, modal jazz, spiritual jazz – as played by musicians from around the World.

·         All tracks fully licensed and digitally restored from the original master tapes

·         Comprehensive liner notes with added individual notes on each track and original stories direct from the musicians involvedA

·         CD with 16 page colour booklet with in-depth liner notes, album cover scans and previously unpublished photographs

·         Most tracks never before reissued – previously only available on rare LPs that change hands for hundreds of pounds!

·         Deluxe double vinyl LP pressing with thick, embossed gatefold sleeve

·         Only on Jazzman – all because WE DIG DEEPER!

Charlie Munro Quartet	Islamic Suite (edit)	Australia
Louiz Banks	Song for my Lady	India
Oladepo Ogomodede	Take Five	Jamaica
Jazz Work Shop	Mezare Israel	Israel
Jazz Semai	Koy Yolu	Turkey
Jorge Lopez Ruiz	Vicky	Argentina
Chivo Borraro	Half and Half	Argentina
Hideo Shiraki	Fiesta	Japan
Virgilio Armas Y Su Cuarteto	Sobre el Orinoco	Venezuela
London Experimental Jazz Quartet	Destroy the Nihilist Picnic	Canada
Ahmadu Jarr	Kathung Gbeng	Sierra Leone
The Braz Gonsalves 7	Raga Rock	India
Fitz Gore	Gisela (Lion Rock)	Jamaica
Eric Nomvete's Big Five	Pondo Blues	South Africa
Paul Winter Sextet	Winters Song	Brasil
Tete Mbambisa	Trane Ride	South Africa
Aquila	Um Allah	Chile

DJ Mr Scruff, Jazzman Gerald + many more!

CLICK HERE for more info

Our contribution to Record Store Day 2014 - Jef Gilson et Malagasy 5LP set

Over recent years, we've delved deep in into the life and work of the late French jazz pioneer Jef Gilson. The outcome has been two double albums featuring the best of his life’s work, and has included many previously unreleased tracks. Now we're about to dig even deeper for Record Store Day!

RSD is on 19 April this year and we've been working hard behind the scenes to get ready our most ambitious project yet - a 5LP box set from Jef Gilson & Malagasy:

• 5 LPs including the 3 original LPs from Malagasy and 2 LPs previously unreleased
• 7" single of the super-rare $1000-rated 45 that was only released in Madagascar in the early '70s
• booklet with previously-unpublished photographs and liner notes featuring interviews from members of Malagasy. Notes are in English and French.
• free download card for 320kbps MP3 files of all tracks
• Limited to 500 copies only

As well as spending his days (and nights) composing, recording, producing, arranging and performing, part of Gilson’s life involved the study and exploration of music, and in the late 1960s his curiosity led him to the ex-French colony of Madagascar, the island just off the south eastern coast of Africa. Indeed, Gilson was fascinated by all kinds of music, not just jazz, and his thirst for musical knowledge led him to make several trips to Madagascar not only to study the indigenous music, but also to spread his passion for jazz. His absorption of Malagasy culture and the strength of his personality would eventually result in the release of 3 exceptional albums of Malagasy jazz, as well as a string of Malagasy concerts, events and radio shows performed across France.

Here we present in their entirety all 3 of these albums, as well as 2 further albums of previously unreleased Malagasy material, in an attempt to address the profound contribution that Gilson and Malagasy have made to world jazz.

THE MUSIC

Early experiments in Ethnic Jazz created as a direct result of Jef Gilson’s expedition to Madagascar in 1969. Three LPs of super rare Malagasy jazz restored and available again for the first time in 40 years. Two LPs of unheard and previously unissued Afro-Spiritual jazz. An impossibly rare 7” single made available for the first time ever outside Madagascar.

*** If vinyl isn't your thing we have a 4CD set also available. In keeping with RSD rules the set will be available in selected RSD stores on 19 April, and if any copies are left they will be available one week later in other stores and online. 

AND FINALLY - all vinyl copies bought from the Jazzman website will get a FREE bonus Malagasy tote bag!

Greg Foat LIVE album recording

The Greg Foat Group will be recording their NEW LIVE ALBUM at the Playboy Club in London over TWO nights:

Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th of January.

Both evenings start at 8pm and go on until late.

Entry is FREE - all you have to do is email your name (and your friends names) to jazzmanguestlist@gmail.com

So if you ever needed a good excuse to visit the Playboy Club, this is it!

Check out the Facebook Events Page for more details.

Hope to see you there!