Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge’s Jazz Is Dead label is releasing a Tony Allen album. Allen, who passed in 2020, was the innovative drummer who helped Fela Kuti created the Afrobeat genre. Their work together added a new vocabulary to the world of rhythm. Younge and Muhammad were luckyContinue Reading
Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s Jazz Is Dead series gets to edition number seven with Brazilian bossa nova, funk and jazz fusion legend João Donato. The musicians achieved another dream by working with Donato who was so flattered by their collaboration he wrote “Adrian, Ali and Gregory” to honorContinue Reading
Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge’s Jazz Is Dead series has its next addition coming with Brazilian jazz-funk trio Azymuth. “Sumaré” is named after the city in São Paulo, Brazil and it embodies the mellowed out grooves of the band’s better known moments. The single is available now and theContinue Reading