Isa, Noah Slee - "Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange" (5:48)
Black, Brother Portrait - "Neue Grafik" (2:44)
Resavoir - "Plight" (7:30)
Review: Total Refreshment Centre was a fabled jazz spot for London's urgent wave of young jazz artists bringing fresh vigour to the genre - so fabled in fact its legacy rings out way past the time the doors were closed. This compilation on Blue Note cements this idea by capturing just a little of the electricity buzzing round the place, with a vital spectrum of sounds which ping the very idea of jazz into new, exciting and crucially modern directions, with the likes of Soccer96, Byron Wallen, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange and Neue Grafik all bringing the heat.
Yazmin Lacey - "I’ll Never Stop Loving You" (4:51)
Fieh - "Armageddon" (3:29)
Mr Jukes - "Maiden Voyage" (4:13)
Shabaka Hutchings - "Prints Tie" (6:39)
Melt Yourself Down - "Caribbean Fire Dance" (3:13)
Emma Jean Thackray - "Speak No Evil/Night Dreamer" (4:59)
Review: Here's a great example of a simple idea, brilliantly executed. It sees artists from the UK's contemporary musical underground - most, though not all, with roots in jazz - re-make tracks from the Blue Note catalogue in their own personal style. The result is a series of sublime and sometimes surprising covers, with highlights including Jorja Smith's deliciously bluesy and soulful nu-jazz take on St Germain's 'Rose Rouge', a sumptuous interpretation of Donald Byrd's smooth jazz-funk classic 'Wind Parade' courtesy of Jordan Rakei, Skinny Pelembe's Afro-tinged cosmic jazz version of the Sam Rivers Sextet's 'Illusion', a spacey, ultra-deep re-imagining of Eddie Henderson's 'Galaxy' by Alfa Mist and an incredible, classic-sounding recording of Dinah Washington favourite 'I'll Never Stop Loving You' by Yazmin Lacey.
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