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With his new remix album, Deciphering The Message the Chicago-based drummer, producer, and beat scientist Makaya McCraven puts a modern bounce on Blue Note classics by Art Blakey, Horace Silver, and Hank Mobley, among others. Today, McCraven has unveiled the album’s fourth and final single "Black Rhythm Happening" which is a funky remake of the title track of a 1969 album by the adventurous trumpeter and Sun Ra associate Eddie Gale.

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Udoma Janssen Shabaka Hutchings Goes Back to the Future The saxophonist and bandleader of Sons of Kemet is the most exciting voice in British jazz. By Marcus J Moore 13/05/2021 On a recent video call from his South London home, Shabaka Hutchings is running through his ever-growing to-do list. There’s the record label he just launched; the solo album he’s planning; and the book that he’s writing. Then there’s the new album, which he’d recorded just a few weeks earlier. Around all thi...

Force Majeure.The album resembles an American songbook co-curated by John Coltrane and Kate Bush.  We found out how deadly the virus truly is, but it failed to destroy humanity. Among other stopgaps, livestreaming on various platforms preserved our character, our dignity in 2020. Both graduates of The Hartt School of Music, Douglas and Younger hosted a series of shows from their living room in Harlem this year. Self-recorded as the country erupted over the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless other Black people, their weekly single microphone performance lift...

15 Great Jazz Albums of 2020 Jazz may not have the mainstream cultural dominance that it once did, but it remains a thriving, multi-faceted form of music that continues to have so much more to say. Jazz informs so much of the rap and electronic music that does have mainstream cultural dominance today, and it's long popped up in indie rock, metal, punk, and other styles of popular music too. Though jazz never went away, the past few years have seen a serious jazz renaissance that continues to grow, branch out into new innovative territory, and attract new listeners. The world of jazz is so va...