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De-Phazz - belooped

Label: MPS
Released: 2026
Track listing: De-Phazz & Oscar Peterson - Wave De-Phazz & The Singers Unlimited - Both Sides Now De-Phazz & Ella Fitzgerald - This Girl's in Love With You De-Phazz & Smoke - Shelda De-Phazz & Monty Alexander - Love & Happiness De-Phazz & The Singers Unlimited - Bass-Ically Speaking De-Phazz & Ernest Ranglin - Feel Like Making Love De-Phazz & Alphonse Mouzon (feat. Sandie Wollasch) - Do I Have To? De-Phazz & George Duke (feat. Joo Kraus) – Capricorn De-Phazz & George Shearing (feat. Malia) – The Continental

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Article: Album Review

Roberto Di Gioia: Web Web - Kover Kover

Read "Web Web - Kover Kover" reviewed by Andy Crowther


Web Web are a “German supergroup" releasing mostly their own material on the Munich-based Compost Records. All are heavily influenced by the spiritual sounds of the legendary Black Jazz and Strata East labels, the grooves of ethio-jazz, and the more experimental kraut-rock leanings of bands like Embryo. But their 2025 album Plexus Plexus tellingly included a ...

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Article: Year in Review

C. Andrew Hovan's Best Jazz Albums of 2025

Read "C. Andrew Hovan's Best Jazz Albums of 2025" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


On many levels, 2025 proved to be a challenging year marked by considerable strife. Fortunately, as Art Blakey once observed, “Music washes away the dust of everyday life." And yet, given the current state of affairs, the moment might be more accurately captured by a line from The Police: “When the world is falling down, you ...

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Montreux Alexander: The Monty Alexander Trio Live! At the Montreux Festival

Label: MPS
Released: 2024
Track listing: Nite Mist Blues; Feelings; Satin Doll; Work Song; Drown In My Tears; Battle Hymn Of The Republic.

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Article: Liner Notes

Nathan Davis Quintet: The Hip Walk

Read "Nathan Davis Quintet: The Hip Walk" reviewed by Ken Dryden


There are numerous examples of talented American jazz musicians who had long careers but were overlooked by critics, broadcasters and much of the jazz audience, often because they spent decades as full time jazz educators, which limited their opportunities to tour in support of their recordings. Nathan Davis, primarily known as a tenor and soprano saxophonist, ...

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Open Mind

Label: MPS
Released: 2023
Track listing: Open Mind; Solitude" – 6:05 Watching Birds; Modern Times Blues; Orbital Encounters; Intuition.

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Individual Choice

Label: MPS
Released: 2023
Track listing: Computer Incantations For World Peace; Far From The Beaten Paths; In Spiritual Love; Eulogy To Oscar Romero; Nostalgia; Individual Choice; In Spite Of All.

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Behind The Tea Chronicles

Label: MPS
Released: 2023
Track listing: Newsroom Customers; Slumberland; Safely Far; Gaslighting Nancy; Of Good Strain; Quatermass Has Told Us; Buddy Longway; Shot In The Park; Deluxe Refuge; Tolerance On High Street; Confrere's Exile.

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No Absolute Time

Label: MPS
Released: 2023
Track listing: No Absolute Time; Savannah; Lost Illusions; Dance Of The Spirits; Forever Together; Caracas; The African Spirit; Speak Out; Blue Mambo; The Child In You.

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Article: Liner Notes

Jean-Luc Ponty: No Absolute Time

Read "Jean-Luc Ponty: No Absolute Time" reviewed by Peter Rubie


When we talk about world music, we often use the phrase in quiet desperation to describe music that defies familiarity and our expectations but still appeals to us. Its very newness is often both slightly disturbing and refreshing at the same time. Two years before No Absolute Time was released in 1993, Jean-Luc Ponty ...


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