A compelling mix of blue-eyed soul and down-to-earth classic rock, evolving from the heavily soul-influenced debut album Everyday Dreams to create a timeless sound. Inspired by legends like The Band and Van Morrison, the point has never been to copy or even imitate, but to listen and learn. To emulate an attitude, more than anything,…
2023 repress. Be With Records present a reissue of Jay Richford and Gary Stevan s Feelings, originally released in 1974. Since its original release on Italian label Carosello in 1974, Richford and Stevan s Feelings has been described as the greatest library record ever released more than once. It s a tough funk, street jazz masterpiece coveted for many years by…
Canadian by birth and now London-based, Jayda G has risen steadily and stealthily through the dance music underground with her infectious energy, vitality and boundless enthusiasm, which she showcases in the second installment of the DJ-Kicks 2021 season.
Significant Changes is a blend of vintage drum machine funk drawing heavily on Chicago’s house blueprint – a natural progression from a string of EPs both solo and alongside her friend and mentor DJ Fett Burger.Hailing from the small town of Grand Forks, British Columbia – some 6 hours outside Vancouver – Jayda Guy grew…
The Jazz Crusaders officially became The Jazz Crusaders with the release of Freedom Sound, their 1961 debut on Pacific Jazz. The Houston, Texas founded band had gone through several changes—both in name and location—when they arrived in Los Angeles and eventually got their lucky break when fellow Houstonian saxophonist Curtis Amy recommended them to Pacific Jazz founder…
For decades, the voice of Jean Carne has been a crucial part of the American musical landscape, tying together generations of Jazz, Gospel, and R&B artists. As a solo artist, backing vocalist, and vocal coach, she has contributed to and collaborated with the likes of Norman Connors, Doug Carn, Dexter Wansel, Phyllis Hyman, Lonnie Liston…
As the follow-up album to Oxygene, Equinoxe offers the same mesmerizing affect, with rapid spinning sequencer washes and bubbling synthesizer portions all lilting back and forth to stardust scatterings of electronic pastiches. Using more than 13 different types of synthesizers, Jarre combines whirling soundscapes of multi-textured effects, passages, and sometimes suites to culminate interesting electronic atmospheres. Never repeating the same…
Jean Michel, the son of acclaimed film composer Maurice Jarre, is a pioneer in the Electronic, Ambient and New Age genres. Apart from his recorded output, Jean Michel Jarre is also fondly known as an organizer of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks. Jean Michel has gone on to sell…
Legendary drummer Kenny Clarke compared Jean-Luc Ponty to Dizzy Gillespie. Fellow violinist Stuff Smith marveled, He plays violin like Coltrane plays saxophone. Born in 1942, the French violinist transported jazz violin playing into the world of modern jazz. On Frank Zappa s urging, Ponty moved to the States in 1973. Over the next years he toured with…
GRACE is a masterpiece. The critically acclaimed breakthrough is filled with sweeping choruses, bombastic arrangements, searching lyrics, and above all, the richly textured voice of Buckley himself. The 25th anniversary of Grace is commemorated with this limited release of the album on gold vinyl.
There is no stopping Jeff Goldblum and his inimitable style, especially when it comes to something as close to his heart as playing the piano. Goldblum especially loves to accompany, punctuate, converse musically with friends and fellow music-makers, and so is in his element on this new release. Entitled Plays Well With Others, Goldblum together with…
Jeff Parkers solo guitar album Forfolks includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk s Ugly Beauty and the standard My Ideal, plus six original compositions: two earlier tunes, Four Folks and La Jete, and four new loop-driven, stratiform works that marry melodic improvisation with electronic textures. He eschews genre playing and chooses a painterly approach to coloring the music,…
On Jeff Rosenstock s new album, HELLMODE, the spontaneous DIY trailblazer returns with the most confident & cohesive album of his career. Recorded at EastWest Studios with Grammy nominated engineer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Joyce Manor) and captured live to tape in the same room where albums like Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Toxicity were…
SKA DREAM is a complete re-recording of Jeff Rosenstock’s critically-acclaimed 2020 record NO DREAM however this time around all the songs are ska songs you’re welcome. The very good idea to make this record came together when, like many other bands throughout this pandemic that refused to participate in super spreading events, we were trying…
ORIGINALLY FROM 1989 AND BACK IN PRINT ON LIMITED COLORED VINYL AFTER NEARLY 20 YEARS!!! The album-length result of Biafra s collaboration with long-time associates D.O.A. for the super soundtrack of Terminal City Ricochet! Both DKs and D.O.A. began playing music in the same week of 1978, so perhaps this project was bound to happen. It…
Jelly Roll, the giant underground genre-bending singer songwriter rapper, delivers his new album Ballads of the Broken. The introspective 10-track record delves deeper into his current season of life and his growth – personally and sonically, marking the first time he does not rap except for a lone verse across the album. Having written each…