Listen Again

Carl Allen – Inchworm [Tippin’]
Artemis – Komorebi [Arboresque]
Sultan Stevenson – El Roi [El Roi]
Mario Rusca Quartet – 4Th Dimension [4Th Dimension]
Sasha Berliner – Zenith [Fantome]
Cal Tjader – Soul Motion [Soul Bird]
James Brandon Lewis – Prince Eugene [Apple Cores]
Marshall Allen With Neneh Cherry – New Dawn [New Dawn]
Sathima Bea Benjamin – Africa [If Music Presents Deep Jazz Vol 4]
Billy Hart – Naaj [Just]
Rosa Brunello – Uno Punto Uno
Empirical – Celestial Being [Indifference Culture Ep]
Empirical – She Moves [Wonder Is The Beginning]
Ambrose Akinmusire – MYanx [Honey From A Winter Stone]
The Exu – Riddle Me This [The Exu]
Ingrid Laubrock – Koan 13 [Purposing The Air]
Knats – Rhumba(r) [Knats]
Ronald Snijders – Ode To Wayne Shorter [Penta]
Barre Phillips – Quest [End To End]
Roy Haynes – I’m So High [Hip Ensemble]
John Surman – Dallab [Flashpoints And Undercurrents]
Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band – Far Too Long
Damon Locks – Holding The Dawn In Place [List Of Demands]

Bassist Ben Williams talks to Michael Amrbosino about Black American Music #BAM. Almost every American musical river leads to the oceanic influence of Black sonic traditions. From spirituals, gospel, ragtime, blues, and R&B, to rock, country, soul, funk, Jazz and hip hop, American music has consistently utilised the experienced of Blackness as it’s creative north star.

Nicholas Payton – Jazz is a Four-Letter Word (Instrumental) [Afro-Caribbean Mixtape}
Ben Williams – Black Villain Music [Coming Of Age]
Duke Ellington – Jack the Bear [Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band]
Charlie Parker – Now’s The Time [The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes]
Miles Davis – So What [Kind of Blue (Legacy Edition)]
Herbie Hancock – Actual Proof [Thrust]
Ray Charles – What’d I Say, Pt. 1 [What’d I Say]
Aretha Franklin – Day Dreaming [Young, Gifted and Black]
Marvin Gaye – I Want You (Vocal) [I Want You]
Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ [Thriller][
Max Roach – The Drum Also Waltzes [Drums Unlimited][
James Brown – Soul Power [Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang]
Parliament – P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) [Mothership Connection[]
Prince & The Revolution – The Beautiful Ones [Purple Rain]
D’Angelo – Chicken Grease [Voodoo]
Big Daddy Kane – Smooth Operator [It’s a Big Daddy Thing]
The Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy [Greatest Hits]
Outkast – Roses [Speakerboxxx/The Love Below]
Kendrick Lamar – King Kunta [To Pimp a Butterfly]
Ben Williams – We Shall Overcome [I Am a Man]

Jackson Mathod – Watermelon Man [Studio Natives, Vol. 1]
Allison Miller/One O’Clock Lab Band – Big and Lovely [Big & Lovely]
Carl Allen – Alter Ego [Tippin’]
David Caceres – Bird Of Beauty [David Caceres]
Joe Gallardo Y Sol – Bird of Beauty [Sol]
Patato – Desde El Fondo Del Rio [The Legend Of Cuban Percussion]
Yazz Ahmed – A Paradise In The Hold [Into The Night]
Nels Cline – The 23 [Consentrik Quartet]
Artemis – The Smile of the Snake [Arboresque]
James Brandon Lewis Trio – Prince Eugene [Apple Cores]
Sultan Stevenson – El Roi [El Roi]
Don Pullen /George Adams – Kahji [Melodic Excursions]
Clifford Jordan – The Witch Doctor’s Chant (Ee-Bah-Lickey-Doo) [Drink Plenty Water]
MONFORT – ATTITUE [Hypnotised]
Jackson Mathod – Mandible [Studio Natives, Vol. 1]
Ronald Snijders – Fusionize [Penta]
Robin Verheyen / Billy Hart / Drew Gress – Sur La Route De Tamba
Noah Preminger – Unfair World [Ballads]
Sasha Berliner – UMMG [Fantome]
Jackie Mclean & Michael Carvin – De I Comahlee Ah [Antiquity]

Benjamin Jephta – The Ben-Dhlamini Stomp [Born Coloured, Not Born Free]
Hervé Samb – Senegaal [Jolof]
Roger Correa – Minuaneiro [Latino Iberico]
Juanjo Corbalan – Fiesta Popular [Jazz No Es Polca]
Kasiva Mutua – Ndikweteela [Desturi]
Tonatiuh Vázquez Vilchis – Mírame Más (feat. Lucia Gutierrez) [Tonatiuh Vazquez Vilchis]
Gabi Hartmann – Le Lever Du Soleil [Le Lever Du Soleil]
Shalosh – Entrance To The Great City [Tales Of Utopia]
Rolando Luna – Alucinaciones [Rolando’s Faces]

Orphy Robinson – Time to Time
Chuck Redd – Happy All The Time
Surnatural Orchestra – La bouteille, la femme et les cinq ivrognes (feat. Norbert Lucarain)
Peter Appleyard – Midnight Sun (1969)
Eddie Costa Quartet – Lucky Be a Lady
Julius Papp featuring Roger Glenn – Imaginary Voyage
Gary McFarland – Schlock-house Blues
Don Elliot & Candido Camero – Push De Button
Sasha Berliner – Jade
Bobby Hutcherson – Zuri Dance
Patricia Brennan – Five Suns
Terry Gibbs – The Song Is You
Teddy Charles Tentet – Vibrations (1956 recording)
Khan Jamal, Pierre Dørge & Johnny Dyani – Lilli Goes to Town
Herbie Mann – Sorimao
Johnny Lytle – Happy Preacher
Dave Kemp Group – Dutch
Brandon Sanders – The Tables Will Turn
Harry Skoler – Topsy
Empirical – Empiricism
David Mrakpor – Lonely
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – The Black Five

ARTEMIS – The Smile of the Snake [Arboresque]
João Selva – Tambor Chamou [Onda]
Jowee Omicil – Throw It Away [Throw It Away]
Jakob Bro – Haiti [Taking Turns]
Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers – Darkness and Light [Gifts]
Matt Carmichael – Kite [Dancing With Embers]
Abel Selaocoe – Emmanuele [Hymns of Bantu]
Charles Tolliver Music Inc. – Impact [Live at The Captain’s Table]
The Mighty Tiny & The Many Few – Invite Love In Your Life [Be The Good People]
Sault – Someone To Love [Acts of Faith]

Las Siete Potencias – Green Dolphin Street [Smoking]
Ricardo Marrero & The Group – Southern Boulevard [Time]
Cal Tjader – Ran Kan Kan [Agua Dulce]
Joe Cuba Sextet – Ay Milagro [Doin it Right]
Bobby Paunetto – Why Is Woody Sad? [El Sonido Modern]
Louie Ramirez – Mambo for Cal [A Tribute to Cal Tjader]
New Swing Sextet – Oyelo Y Tu Vera [Swinging Along]
Louie Ramirez – Sid’s Groove [Vibes Galore]
Cal Tjader – Philadelphia Mambo [Cal Tjader Quintet]
Dave Pike – Sandunga [Manhattan Latin]
Mango – Todita Tu
Bobby Montez – Cha Cha Cha Por Nueva York [Jungle Fantastique]
Tito Puente – Chan [20th Anniversary]
Ruben Blades y Seis De Solar – Todos Vuelven [Buscando America]
The Beaujolais Band – Ain’t No Sunshine [Mind How You Go]
Carabali – What’s Up? [Carabali]

James Brandon Lewis – Prince Eugene [Apple Cores]
Chick Corea – Samba Song [Friends]
Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet – Sun [Beautiful People]
Raices – Parata Gua Gua [Raices]
Kan Digor – Croonardise [If Music – Journey Into Deep Jazz Vol 4]
Waaju feat.Majid Bekkas – Fangara [Alouane]
Freddie Hubbard – Destiny’s Children [Keep Your Soul Together]
Melissa Aldana – Acceptance [Visions]
Jimi Tenor with Cold Diamond & Mink – Summer Of Synesthesia

The Solsonics – Jazz in the Present Tense (show theme track)
House of Water – Improv 9 [On Becoming: The Improv Sessions]
Xhosa Cole – Doo-shima (ft Ian Parmel & Adriano Adewale) [Ibeji]
Daymé Arocena – Como vivir por el [Alkemi]
Etienne Charles – Think Twice [Creole Orchestra]
Ashley Henry – Autumn (ft Theo Croker) [Who We Are]
Gregory Privat – Metamorphosis [Phoenix]
Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few – Crash [The World Is On Fire]
Anthony Joseph – Tony [Rowing Up River To Get Our Names Back]
Dave Okumu – Blood ah go Run [I Came From Love (Live From The Roundhouse)]

LOLOET – 20240203 (LOLOET)
Jakob Bro – Haiti (ECM/Universal)
Will & James Ragar – Now (BBE)
Greg Spero,Nicole McCabe,Ka’Cye Thompkins – Step Ahead (Tiny)
Everything Is Recorded – Swamp Dream #3 (XL/Beat)
Greentea Peng – One Foot (Greentea Peng)
melodies – Elephant Ride (Ammonite Musique)
Resavoir – Love Theme from Spartacus (International Anthem)
Hyldon & Adrian Younge – O Cacador de Estrelas (Jazz Is Dead)
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Acoustic) (Warner)
Theo Parrish – Traffic Jams (Sound Signature)