Various Artists - Colin Curtis Presents Jazz Dance Fusion Volume 2

Styles: Fusion, Latin Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:42
Size: 176,7 MB
Art: Front

1. Paoli Mejias - Revelation (5:16)
2. Leslie Lewis And Gerard Hagen Trio - Keeper Of The Flame (5:24)
3. Curtis Lundy - Never Gonna Let You Go (4:21)
4. 8VB - Gengis (6:37)
5. Marita Albán Juárez Quartet - Upa Neguinho (4:37)
6. JD Walter - Golden Lady (5:51)
7. Steven Kroon - Tombo 7/4 (5:52)
8. Hajime Yoshizawa Feat. Navasha Daya - Celebration (5:14)
9. Raffaela Renzulli Ensemble - Brasilia (6:31)
10. Carmen Lundy - So This Is Love (3:36)
11. Tino Gonzales - Latin Gypsy (7:23)
12. Grady Tate - Little Black Samba (9:14)
13. Jam Session Goes Latino - Manteca (6:39)

“Welcome to the second instalment of my ‘Jazz Dance Fusion’ compilation series for Dave Lee’s Z Records. I continue to look back into the story & history of the UK jazz dance and jazz music scene; a movement that started for me back in the 70’s. The sounds of funk & soul mixed with jazz, influences from Brazil, Africa, Europe and all over the globe, textures of instrumental sounds & voices, fuse to create the much-loved ‘jazz fusion’ sound that we love.

Here we are in 2020 when interest in all forms of Jazz is growing fast as DJ pioneers such as Gilles Peterson, Patrick Forge, Perry Louis, Snowboy, Nick Hosier, Alan Mckinnon, Jim Bernardi, Kev Beadle, Harv Nagi, Shuya Okino and David Patterson continue to push all aspects of Jazz to converted and new audiences. So, to this compilation where I am showcasing unreleased material and offering tracks up for the first time ever on vinyl and CD. The track listing covers my addiction to dance-floor jazz, coupled with my passion for vocal and percussive jazz, with my usual trademark latin touches.
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Jazz Dance Fusion Volume 2

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Various Artists - Colin Curtis Presents Jazz Dance Fusion

Styles: Fusion, Latin Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 117:29
Size: 270,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:52) 1. What's Going On
(4:50) 2. Harolds House of Jazz
(7:43) 3. Spirit of Truth
(4:01) 4. The Angels
(6:49) 5. Spirit's Samba
(2:55) 6. Someone to Light Up My Life
(4:12) 7. Zamba
(5:52) 8. To Let You Know I Care
(7:52) 9. The Samba Express
(6:30) 10. Murilley
(3:56) 11. New York Afternoon
(5:13) 12. Empty Faces
(6:06) 13. Ponteio
(6:00) 14. Flying Colors
(8:37) 15. Image
(5:22) 16. Vera Cruz
(6:35) 17. Morning Song
(4:35) 18. El Exi-Hente
(6:45) 19. Demon Upstairs
(7:35) 20. Samba Do Brilho

Well, you wait for a decent Jazz compilation to come along and then two come along at once. In a previous review we talked about Mike Peden and Tony Higgins’ J Jazz compilation on BBE and gave it top marks and now DJ and music collector supreme Colin Curtis has compiled another blinder out now on Joey Negro’s Z Records.

Before reviewing this selection it is important to put it into a context. The Jazz scene in the UK is so strong at present with DJ events such as Shiftless Shuffle, The Return of the Illicit Groove’s nights, Another Sunday At Dingwalls and Out To Lunch. Coupled with live acts such as Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia, Moses Boyd and their various collaborative incarnations and we are truly living in an era which bridges the Jazz dance and Rare Grooves scenes of the 80s to the New Jazz of today. The bands featured on the Brownswood compilation ‘We Out Here’ and who appear at the weekly Jazz Re:Freshed are testament to that link.

So where does Jazz Dance Fusion fit into this? Well, first off this is not an excuse to bury oneself in a retro pique of nostalgia. Indeed, what this compilation represents is an underpinning of what is new now. Always a leftfield sub-genre within the leftfield genre of Jazz, Jazz dance was, and is, the music which bridged the gap between soul, funk and latin grooves and which gave the dancers the chance to throw down moves or simply just lose themselves in rythyms which screamed out at them.

My personal journey into this came in the 80s when, as an extremely hung over soulboy, I went into the Saturday afternoon jazz room session at a weekender expecting to be able to get a hair of the dog and nurse my way into the night to come. I have no idea who was on the decks that moment I walked in but what was playing was Charles Earland’s brilliant track Murilley and what happened was I never made it across the dancefloor to the bar. Three hours of dancing later I was hooked. This album brings that day back to me in an almost visceral way.

However, as I said earlier, this album along with other recent compilations (J Jazz, Kev Beadle’s Private Collection etc) are so important for the thriving scene that exists right now with the new acts, DJs, bands, events already outlined. From Track 1, the sublime version of Marvin’s What’s Going On by Michele Hendricks to Track 20, Bill Hardman’s Samba Do Brihlo there is a massive hint to to the new Jazz of today with rythyms and drum breaks that are clear pre-cursors to Drum & Bass, Hip-Hop and House music. The vocal tracks, Richie Cole’s seminal New York Afternoon, the aforementioned Michele Hendricks and Mark Murphy’s Empty Faces, reach out in a way that vocalists of the calibre of Asheber, Saul Williams & Zara Macfarlane do now....More
https://illicitgroove.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/colin-curtis-presents-jazz-dance-fusion-a-review-by-bob-hill/

Colin Curtis Presents Jazz Dance Fusion

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