Coming Up this week: Courtney Pine’s personal picks from Binker & Moses, Curtis Stigers, Esthesis Quartet, Melissa Aldana and more…

Have YOU listened to something new today?  So many great voices on this Episode!  Sweden’s Jacob Karlzon journeying yonder, Soothsayer Melissa Aldana Falling into Otherworlds, Esthesis Quartet conjuring CrazyCrickets, Monika Tiken turning a light on Time, a quick Kevin Hays swingfest heralding Binker & Moses’ Infinite looping freeness…Tigran Hamasyan DE-DAH!!, restorative Curtis Stigers: Breathe….. Mike Holober swingin' hard, Cleveland Watkiss LION!…Start as you Mean to Go On folks cause the Passion Continues here at Courtney Pine Global!

Jacob Karlzon - Subject to Change WarnerMelissa Aldana - Falling BluenoteMonika Tiken - Time Self-releaseEsthesis Quartet - Cricket OrendaKevin Hays, Ben Street and Billy Hart - Unscrappulous SmokeBinker and Moses - Feed Infinite GearboxTigran Hamasayan - De Dah NonesuchCurtis Stigers - You’re All That Matters To Me BluenoteMike Holober - Necessary SunnysideCleveland Watkiss - Red Gold and Green Cdubya

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Look alive folks we’ve only gone and launched weekly!! Three fantastic tracks picked especially by Courtney Pine: Cleveland Watkiss, Tigran Hamasyan, Jacob Karlzon - these flavour makers will blow your mind!  So get your cup of chai and check this Bitesize beauty out!!!

Cleveland Watkiss - Red Gold & Green  CdubyaTigran Hamasyan - De Dah NonesuchJacob Karlzon - Subject To Change Warner

Coming up this week Fresh New Sounds emanating from Tokyo, NY, Chicago, Denmark, UK, San Francisco, Germany, UK-Asia & Israel.

 Courtney’s feelin' the vibe this week and these fresh new artists are really movin' him!  Miho Hazama mysteriously swing-marchin’ with Danish Radio Big Band, Aaron Seeber radiating NY energy, layer-upon-layer of the gorgeous Zara McFarlane, Michael Allemana’s Chicago respect, SFJAZZ taking pause before Gilad Hekselman’s strange and beautiful Magic Chord.  Orrin Evans full of praise, Clemens Grassman: joy personified! Arun Ghosh & friends dancin' us home…  Discover the happy moments folks - it’s another blinder from the one and only Courtney Pine!

Miho Hazama - Mimi’s March EditionAaron Seeber - Brandyn Cellar Music GroupZara McFarlane - Nya DisintegratedMichael Allemana - The Mediator Ears & EyesSFJAZZ Collective - Lift every voice SFJAZZGilad Hekselman - Magic Chord EditionOrrin Evans - Libra SmokeClemons Grassman - Chickens On A Trane Self-ReleaseArun Ghosh - Sufi Stomp Camoci

!Look Alive friends!! Courtney Pine’s awesome Easter playlist’s Full of Love & launched today! A swingin’ handful of love from Harold Mabern & Crew, Grammy nominee Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin dreamin’…Big Feelings.Big grooves. Samara Joy & Pasquale Grasso slow-dance to classic Duke…sonic BOOM! all manner of radness aka Trombone Shorty, Karriem Riggins’ mixin’mashup on Nicholas Payton, Simon Phillips’s electric groove-fest… 

COME ON NOW we are FLYIN’ - TWEET #cpg_podcast while you listen folks we want to know how you’re feelin’ cos we are seein’ colours… Robert Mitchell’s two-step, Joel Ross’ blissful vibes reinvention, Ben Markley’s euphoric whirlwind WHAT??! Let the inimitable Renee Rosnes bring this Epic blowage home friends cause y’know, Life.Does.Not.Wait…

Harold Mabern - Straight Street SmokeArturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble – How I Love BluenotePasquale Grasso/Samara Joy – Solitude Sony MasterworksTrombone Shorty - Come Back BluenoteNicholas Payton/Karriem Riggins remix - Gold Dust Black Magic SmokeSimon Phillips – Isosceles PhantomRobert Mitchell: Anxieties DiscusJoel Ross: Doxology BluenoteBen Markley – Arrows and Loops OA2Renee Rosnes - Life Does Not Wait (A Vida Não Espera) Smoke

Blissful grooves from Somi, Gregory Porter, Mark Turner, Abdullah Ibrahim, Larry Goldings, Selene Saint-Aime, Kit Downes and more

Spring is Here, and 9 Other Reasons to be stoked this week! Somi & Gregory Porter Tasting the Strawberries, Abdullah Ibrahim at a Wedding, Mark Turner’s Nigerian awakening, Kit Downes on the beach, Vincent Herring at Church, Sélène Saint-Aimé blossoming in the Caribbean, Joe Farnsworth abloom Bud-like, James Brandon Lewis amongst the Flowers and Larry Goldings Uniting us all for the doubtless brighter days ahead. Do NOT miss it!! 

Joe Farnsworth: Bud-Like (Smoke)James Brandon Lewis: Fallen Flowers (Tao Forms)Sélène Saint-Aimé: KosmosAbdullah Ibrahim: The Wedding (Gearbox)Somi feat Gregory Porter: Love Tastes Like Strawberries (Salon Africana)Kit Downes: Sandilands (Vermillion)Mark Turner: Nigeria II (ECM)Larry Goldings: United (Smoke)Vincent Herring: Preaching To The Choir (Smoke)

How can you NOT fall in love with this music? Kitchen-disco it with Veronica Swift (ahem!) drift with the gorgeous Nubya Garcia and Nala Sinephro in their Beautiful Place, then re-enter, Expanded and Transformed, via the joyous Rosie Turton. Hold Hands with the ethereal groove of Ezra Collective then swerve samba-style south of the border where the sun’s always shining with Agustin Pereyra Lucena - c’mon now we see you smilin’! The halting sweetness of The Pucciarelli Group; the urgent Altitude of Nate Smith; Marquis Hill insanely live…ALL THIS in one swift episode?? That’s the beauty of Courtney Pine Global!

Joe Farnsworth – Bud-Like Kenny Barron (pno), Peter Washington (bs), Joe Farnsworth (dr)James Brandon Lewis – Fallen Flowers  Maria Schneider – Wyrgly (Evanescence Version) Abdullah Ibrahim – The WeddingGregory Porter – If Love is Overrated Kit Downes – SandilandsGoldings, Bernstein & Stewart – UnitedVincent Herring – Preaching to the Choir

We are lovin’ the jazz journey Courtney Pine’s lined up for you this episode.  First off is South Korean wunderkind Jihye Lee and her on-fire Orchestra, before some eternal truths from pianist Ethan Iverson.  Kick off your shoes for a sensual groove with Omar, and a retro-luscious dreamscape from Brazil’s Marcos Resende.  Is that Sarah Vaughan?  No and yes! It’s Melanie Charles revisioning her in a totally surreal and cool duet. Portugal’s best kept jazz secret Mário Laginha gives us a triotastic palette cleanser, before the energy ball that is Kinetika Bloco whops Duke Ellington’s Caravan carnival style down the road to our final prayer: Javon Jackson’s Sweet Chariot, Swingin’ Low with some gospel-tinged calypso grooves.  Now that’s an episode we’re ALL gonna be talkin’ about…

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This week blasts off with a BBC Young Jazz musician of the year from Brum, followed by sweet black tears from Cuba’s finest.  Mellow rap, sounds from vintage Art Blakey… we’ve got even more fine UK jazz and Hammond organ to get your feet tappin’ - oh yes this is a corker of an episode - come and join the fun!

Courtney’s included tracks from Xhosa Cole, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Jay Phelps, Art Blakey, Mark Lockheart, Pat Bianchi & Alex Webb.

Enjoy!

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Everyone has a story to tell and we’ve got some enticing tales for you this week: tell the kids it’s time to come home; tell the strangers don’t go in the river; tell of a world caught in an hourglass; tell of a sun the will rise again…open your mind and leave it to the jazz…

Courtney’s selection includes tracks from Kenny Garrett, Hiromi, Chelsea Carmichael,  Cecile McLorin Salvant, Christian McBride and Louis Hayes.

Enjoy!

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