Soil & “PIMP” Sessions live at De Kreun (pics)

oemebamo — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:51:03 +0000

In case you were wondering, the Japanese DEATH jazz band Soil & “PIMP” Sessions is still the most energetic jazz band we’ve ever seen live. Last night they played at the lovely De Kreun club in Kortrijk and it was totally off the hook.

Shacho

All pictures © Jurriaan Persyn

A couple more over here or join the Beyondjazz Flickr group for more visual candy.

We’ll be sure to drop some tunes from their most recent LP “6″ in the upcoming podcasts. And if you can’t wait, Juno.co.uk always has a great stock of Japan imports and Brownswood re-releases.

José James – Black Magic

creaminal — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:22:27 +0000

After his great debut album, The Dreamer and various works with Jazzanova, Nicola Conte or Dj Mitsu, New York based vocalist José James has finished his second solo material which will be coming out on Brownswood Recordings in early 2010. The title track Black Magic is produced by the mighty Flying Lotus and other collabs on the new offering are by BiLo, Moodyman, DJ Mitsu the Beats or Taylor McFerrin.

You can already listen to some of the new songs BlackMagic, Lay it Down, Beauty or Save Your Love for Me (a cover of Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderly version) on his myspace page or alternatively on Beyondjazz radioshow here. The Black Magic got the remix treatments from Simbad and an up & coming UK talent Joy Orbinson. The latter is heavily played by mr Gilles Peterson.

Saxophonist Timo Lassy out of Finland has also teamed up with Jose for his forthcoming single The More I Look At You, check the lovely preview at www.myspace.com/rickytickrecords His seven-inch will be out in July.

The Friends We Love project shares a special live video here with JJ showcasing his previous and forthcoming stuff:

José James is currently on tour and will be performing live at Gent Jazz Festival tomorrow.

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Soil & “PIMP” Sessions live at De Kreun (pics)

José James – Black Magic