![Album Review: Arat Kilo – Nouvelle Fleur [Eklektik, 27th May 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/003d9262-335x335.jpeg)
If you’ve never listened to ethio-jazz, a genre very popular in the bars and hotels of Addis Ababa during the 1960s and ’70s, Arat Kilo’s new album Nouvelle Fleur could be the perfect introduction. The Parisian band, whose name comes from a famous monument in the Ethiopian capital, brought into...
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A reception to Fronteras, a performance by Philippe Baden Powell and Cecilia Zabala we covered at the Americas Society & Council of the Americas in New York, was held right after the show, in an adjacent room. It was a room with large windows, and two tables purposed for consumption: one...
![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...
![Review: Cecilia Zabala & Philippe Baden Powell – Fronteras @ Americas Society & Council of the Americas (New York, U.S. – 26th January 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/zabala_02-2-335x223.jpg)
Hidden away, there is an old Beaux-Arts mansion at 680 Park Ave in New York City wherein members and non-members congregate for various cultural activities. To attend, one first walks through the old mansion’s black gates, into a lobby that could be an art gallery, surrounded by very white walls....
![Preview: Collocutor | Yusef Lateef Songbook @ Church Of Sound [London, 2nd February 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/15800595_675501902620946_5120845961417493061_o-335x124.jpg)
On Thursday 2nd February, St. James the Great Church, a fully functioning chapel in Clapton, will turn once again into the Church of Sound, an one-of-a-kind music venue where performers play in between the pews. This time, the British 7-piece jazz band Collocutor, brainchild of saxophonist Tamar Osborn, will play...
There are moments when you really think that London is turning into a ghost town when it comes to quality live music gigs. But then, a fully packed Monday evening show, unexpectedly and easily changes your mind, giving you back some hope for the future. That’s what happened, is happening...
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: Kefaya – Radio International [Radio International Records, 14th October 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/radio-international-cover-335x334.jpg)
Once upon a time, in a world no larger than a big ball, political music was often not as artistically ambitious as visual art or poetry. It made for great music by names like Bob Dylan or Jose Afonso instead of graffiti names like SAMO, composing and performing art pretty...