A special launch event for the new CD compilation 'Now's The Time II' (Vortex Records) will take place in the Clore Ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall next Friday 21 August starting at 5.30 p.m.
Loz Speyer, Babel artist Julie Sassoon and Jason Yarde are amongst those performing live and Kevin Le Gendre, who compiled the album, spins the tunes for this extended night of top free music.
The album features a superb set of contemporary jazz that covers everything from fusion to avant-garde and all points in between. As John Fordham wrote in the Guardian: "...... a rich contemporary mix with strong dancefloor underpinnings. **** "
This is the second Vortex release, following the successful Mercury-nominated Knee Deep In The North Sea by Portico Quartet, and is in the Vortex tradition of encouraging people towards what they might not know so well!!
Admission is free!!!!!!
The album has been compiled by broadcaster, jazz journalist and DJ Kevin Le Gendre from the best of his sadly missed 'Now's The Time' BBC London contemporary jazz radio show. AS he writes in the sleeve notes: "Improvisation, the overwhelming desire to pass comment on a given musical statement, to subtitle the title, has its place in any jazz school of thought - be it bebop, avant-garde, third stream or fusion."
Full tracklisting:
1/ William Parker Quartet - The Watermelon Song
(originally featured on 'Raining on the Moon', 2002)
2/ Lafayette Gilchrist - Unsolved, Unresolved
(originally featured on 'Towards the Shining Path', 2005)
3/ Leon Parker - Every Day
(Originally featured on ('The Simple Life', 2001)
4/ Loz Speyer's Time Zone Cuba - Katakusi
(Previously unavailable, 2005)
5/ Ron Blake - Sonic Tonic
(Originally featured on Sonic Tonic, 2005)
6/ The Bloomdaddies - Captain E
(Originally featured on Mosh for Lovers, 2002)
7/ Lost Brother - Departure
(Originally featured on Lost Brother, 2005)
8/ Steve Lehman - Vapors
(Originally featured on Demian as Posthuman, 2005)
9/ David Gilmore - Music Revolutions
(Originally featured on Ritualism, 2000)
10/ Lan Xang - Day of Fear, Night of Truth
(Originally featured on Lan Xang, 1997)
11/ Robert Glasper - Maiden Voyage
(Originally featured on Mood, 2003)
12/ Julie Sassoon - 44
(Recored at the Vortex club, 2008)
13/ Jason Yarde - Where Will it Take You
(Originally featured on www.soundjunction.org)
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