Shabaka and the Ancestors bring their devotional free-jazz to London Jazz Café for one night only on the 31st March. The group play songs inspired by their African musical forefathers to re-visualise contemporary jazz through the voice of their masters. Band leader Shabaka Hutchings will be taking the stage with...
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The fear across the world that Trump’s ‘extreme vetting’ executive order was a poorly conceived smokescreen to appease an angry, xenophobic minority have been proved once again. After the US consulate initially granted visas to Yussef, Ahmad and Kareem Dayes, they have now been revoked. Between them, they make up...
![Album Review: The Comet is Coming – Channel The Spirits [The Leaf Label, 1st April 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/a1117541435_10-335x335.jpg)
When the sound of a band needs more than one word to be defined, it’s usually a good sign. The Comet is Coming’s new album Channel The Spirits slips between the borders of very different genres – jazz, acid, electronica, psychedelic rock, shaping the band’s very own definition of sound...
Owner of a flexible technique and an adaptable sound to different genres and styles, the Cuban trumpeter, Yelfris Valdés, will feature the best tradition of the American Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard at The Jazz Café on Saturday. Fusion, hard-bop, post-bop, and soul jazz, among other styles, will be on the...
Despite jazz’s being born to warm weather New Orleans, a city full of “elaborate wedding-cake ceilings, wide sliding doors, tall French windows” to quote New Orleans native Truman Capote, the music has always adapted itself to cold weather living pretty well. If a life of surrounding swamps, deltas, briar patches,...
Today, black music is warmth, experimentation, crossbreeding, avant-garde, tradition, and rhythm. Turin’s Jazz Re:Found festival explores these definitions, with a curious and forward thinking vision on music, honouring great names of the past while looking at the most current scenes with a sharp eye and sensitive ear. Spread across seven...
![Album Review: Yussef Kamaal – Black Focus [Brownswood Recordings, 4th November 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/0008156826_10-335x335.jpg)
Black Focus is the culturally influenced debut album from junglist jazz duo Yussef Kamaal, on release with Brownswood Recordings. Delivered with cool attitude, the pair mix raw urban broken-beat grooves with 70’s jazz-fusion organ synth sounds. With hints of hip-hop, UK garage and neo-soul, the album reflects an edgier side...
With a new album out (MM3), a European tour ready to hit the road (with a London gig at Battersea Arts Centre part of Borderless festival in less than a month) and a following growing all over the world, there are plenty of reasons to write a feature about Metá Metá...