Tag: BBE Music

  • Dizzy Gillespie – Portrait Of Jenny – BBE Music

    Listening to Dizzy Gillespie’s music feels like a privilege granted by history. Released back in 1970 by Perception Records it was the artist’s second album that year and for me the better of the two more attuned to fusions of classic Jazz and Latin, than its funkier counterpart. If the opening, Olinga was the albums…

  • Masaru Imada Trio + 1 – Planets – BBE Music

    Imada’s Bosendorfer piano talks to you. Fluid and flowing, eloquent like a high-class orator. This reissue from 1977 feels as if yesterday has been reborn into tomorrow. Contemporary always. Try, Planets at the beginning. Moods along with tempos lift and fall as the album then progresses packed full of life enhancing sequences, exploring texture and…

  • Per Husby Septett – Peacemaker – BBE Music

    Sometimes nothing else will do. Jazz when played with purposeful ferocity blows away cobwebs recharging moods with a unique air. This release dates back to 1976 yet channels living, breathing history into its rhythms and grooves, perhaps none more so than on the opening number, the fiery horn driven, Au Privave/ Bloomdido. What also proves…

  • We Are The Children Of The Sun compiled by Paul Hillery – BBE Music

    This is a beautiful listen highlighting perfectly the intrinsic value within music to inspire and to console. Chosen by DJ Paul Hillery this collection drifts aimlessly through hints of Folk to psychedelic impulse while always remaining true to human touch. In a sense it doesn’t get better than the opening number Make Believe by Jim…

  • If Music Presents You Need This: Klinkhamer Records – BBE Music

    The thing about Jazz is that it etches something uniquely human into your psyche. It’s about the flood of memory, charged by the ignition of tomorrow, capturing the essence of life that only this music really does so successfully. This collection of numbers from the Netherlands, Klinkhamer Records as selected by owner Michel Veenstra is…

  • The Fantastics! – Take A Shot – BBE Music

    Listening to Take A Shot feels like a lifetime of experience all rolled into one moment. As if the collection of musicians involved know each other’s language intimately transferring notes and conversations freely. While this follows traditional musical lines it is none the less very enjoyable, life enhancing music perfect for the summer sunshine that…

  • Kohsuke Mine – First – BBE Music

    I was having one of those awkward days when moments didn’t add up to making much sense. The thought of listening to the twist of Modern Jazz did not seem like the answer or even a remotely helpful proposition given the circumstance. But of course, I did so anyway. Funny then that everything suddenly made…

  • Sean Khan – Starchild – BBE Music

    Change is in the air. You can sense that as the summer rays begin to intensify and the rumble of double-bass gets jazzy in amongst this shining array of cool, breezy instrumentation. Heidi Vogel’s time honoured vocal adds the seal of taste to the affair as the rhythms pulse and dance through a mist of…

  • Shintaro Quintet – Evolution – BBE Music

    Sometimes music talks so loud you don’t need the distraction of thinking about it. It just is. Composed and realised by bassist Shintaro Nakamura this collection of heady, heavenly sounds was originally released in 1984, although it feels odd to place it in any given timeframe breathing with as much energy in any decade. Its…