New Jazz Century is out now.
Adult Swim have shared a new digital-only music compilation titled New Jazz Century.
Showcasing the talents of a number of the contemporary jazz genre’s most deft and accomplished players, the new project features trumpeters Yazz Ahmed and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, drummer Makaya McCraven and Theon Cross and Shabaka Hutchings‘ ecstatic Sons Of Kemet among its personnel.
Discussing the release Adult Swim writer and producer Luke Rhodes states,
“Jazz is an influence that’s always been in the background of the sorts of music we play on Adult Swim. But we’ve only recently started bringing that influence into the foreground. A compilation seemed like an opportunity to bring jazz more into the spotlight, as well as to introduce our audience to some modern currents in the jazz scene. We tried to narrow it down to a group that showed how much diversity is in the genre today, both in terms of who is playing jazz and what they’re doing with the form.“
Hear New Jazz Century in full here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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