An all-star team of jazz musicians edited into breaks and loops, with hypnotic results.
Ahead of the release of a rare Mingus recording, Abdullah discusses the jazz legend’s legacy and the discovery of the tapes.
Kamasi Washington collaborator brings out a big slab of electro funk.
The Australian electronic fusion band carries an exploratory looseness that makes their latest so exciting.
A newly unearthed session from 1963 finds Coltrane’s quartet in top form.
On his second sprawling set of music, Washington balances warmth and ambition, concept and soul.
Watch Kamasi take on a challenger in the new clip.
Hear a distorted, intense new track from the collective’s new album.
Both Directions At Once due for release on June 29.
Hear another new jam from the upcoming Heaven and Earth.
A funky, loose follow-up to Yussef Kamaal’s sole jazz-funk offering.
A contemporary update from a jazz legend that feels like a broadcast from the cosmos.
Hear an atmospheric, grooving new track from the Australian group’s upcoming album.
Hear a funky new jam from the former Yussef Kamaal artist.
The London jazz ensemble is making its way around the country.
New double-album due this year.
The musical icon radically changed how we hear jazz piano.
An iconoclastic and celebratory Afro-Carribean jazz album that blows back against white supremacy.
Hear new track “Salaam.”
The bass maestro is given a chopped-not-slopped treatment.