Dee C. Lee, Just Something, Acid Jazz ****

One for the Style Council fans among us particularly those ungeneric enough to, like Dee C. Lee, move on and go deeper by embracing jazz a little more. New originals from Dee who with the Modfather Paul Weller (the singer's former husband - their …

Published: 25 Mar 2024. Updated: 32 days.

One for the Style Council fans among us particularly those ungeneric enough to, like Dee C. Lee, move on and go deeper by embracing jazz a little more. New originals from Dee who with the Modfather Paul Weller (the singer's former husband - their daughter Leah also has input on Just Something) and Mick Talbot who also contributes some piano and Wurly adding to the rising swell was in the much loved 1980s band that Weller formed after The Jam. There's also strong jazz input from Michael J. McEvoy - remember McEvoy's fine Remembrance: 1955-1963 that he was involved in with The Jazz Sapiens last year? If not it's a good time to refresh the memory banks once again a few months on from release. Mike contributes some choice co-writes with Dee in the early part of the album. Right at the end of the highly relatable Just Something there's a cover of Don Blackman's 'I Love You' that Weldon Irvine Sinbad fans will for sure be made up by - we certainly are. Sunny soul drenched sounds then skilfully rendered by all concerned. Dee C. Lee, photo: cover art detail

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The best jazz: January-March 2024

You and I We are the keepers of dreams We mould them into light beams And weave them into life's seams – Lebo Mashile. A vastly improving picture 4 years on from the start of the Pandemic. Click on each entry below for reviews and full listening …

Published: 25 Mar 2024. Updated: 32 days.

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You and I

We are the keepers of dreams

We mould them into light beams

And weave them into life's seams

– Lebo Mashile.

A vastly improving picture 4 years on from the start of the Pandemic.


Click on each entry below for reviews and full listening links

10 Lynne Arriale Trio Being Human Challenge

9 Taylor Eigsti, Plot Amor, Groundup Music

8 Chris Potter Eagle's Point Edition

7 Joel Ross Nublues Blue Note

6 Gary Husband Songs of Love and Solace

5 John Surman Words Unspoken ECM

4 Charles Lloyd The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow Blue Note

3 Julian Lage Speak To Me Blue Note

2 Amaro Freitas Y'Y Psychic Hotline

1 Tutu Puoane Wrapped In Rhythm Vol. 1 Soul Factory

A deeply stirring and powerful collection of songs from Belgium residing South African singer Tutu Puoane written in collaboration with her husband Belgian pianist Ewout Pierreux, produced by Larry Klein, themed around the poetry of Lebo Mashile whose In A Ribbon of Rhythm Puoane has long since found inspirational. Mashile's work tackles themes such as life in the new South Africa and dwells on such issues as the place of women within the societal fabric of the Rainbow Nation. Among the personnel are guest Larry Goldings whose Hammond organ sound pops up vividly on 'Illicit Love'. Puoane's voice lands tonally somewhere between that of Sibongile Khumalo and Dianne Reeves. Puoane, with Pierreux, Brice Soniano and James Williams, plays Ronnie Scott's, London, on 30 May.

Tutu Puoane, photo: via Bandcamp