The Listening Guide
🎶 The listening guide: five albums, released during the past twelve months, chosen around a weekly theme 🎶
This week, we turn our attention to the jazz sounds of South America, selecting five albums from artists based within or hailing from the continent.
Julia Sanjurjo – Retrato
https://juliasanjurjocuarteto.bandcamp.com/releases
FabianoDoNascimento – Prelúdio
https://fabianodonascimento.bandcamp.com/album/prel-dio-2
JuanPastorChinchano – El Regreso
https://chinchano.bandcamp.com/album/el-regreso
JonathanFerr – Trilogia do amor
https://jonathanferr.bandcamp.com/album/trilogia-do-amor
CarreraQuinta – Traslaciones
https://carreraquinta.bandcamp.com/album/traslaciones
Album of the Week
Jaga Jazzist – Pyramid
Our album of the week comes from Oslo-based nujazz outfit Jaga Jazzist. Their ninth album and first for BRAINFEEDER Records, ‘Pyramid’ features four absorbing, futuristic tracks where jazz chops and electronic production meet.
Classic Album
Recorded in May 1970 during the latter half of Dexter Gordon’s years in Europe, Some Other Spring hears vocalist Karin Krog joined by the tenor saxophonist, pianist Kenny Drew, bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, and drummer Espen Rud. The group play an eclectic set including ‘Blue Monk’ and ‘How Insensitive’, forging musical relationships that would continue after the session.