Photos From A Weird Jazz Afternoon

Yesterday, we teamed up with Stones Throw to present our Weird Jazz Afternoon at Palate Food + Wine in Glendale – in honor of our P.E. Hewitt anthology, out everywhere tomorrow, April 6th. “Weird” was right – jazz from Ethiopia, Finland, France, India and, of course, the USA – spun by Egon, J.Rocc and Palate’s wine guru (and weird jazz bassist) Steve Goldun as the chef’s served up pulled pork sandwiches, Easter lamb and everyone poured some OE alongside some nice Burgundies.

Photos from our Weird Jazz Afternoon/P.E. Hewitt Record release party.
Photos from our Black Man’s Cry record release party.

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Dimlite Supports His Prismic Tops Album On Tour

Dimlite’s just back in Switzerland after a quick jaunt to Russia to perform for all of the people who grabbed his music for free on the torrent sites hosted there.

Now he’s about to perform in countries where people can actually buy his Prismic Tops album, out in early May.

April 2, 2010 | Liveshow @ La Bellevoise | Paris, France
April 3, 2010 | Liveshow @ Kaserne w/ James Pants | Basel, Switzerland
April 17, 2010 | Liveshow @ Future Is Now Festival @ Zukunft | Zürich, Switzerland
April 23, 2010 | Liveshow @ Homework Festival | Bologna, Italy
May 29, 2010 | Liveshow @ The Roadhouse | Manchester, UK
May 30, 2010 | Liveshow @ Start the bus | Bristol, UK

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PE Hewitt Anthology Out Now (grab a free MP3 now!).

We’re pre-releasing P.E. Hewitt Winter Winds The Complete Works: 1968-70. The anthology is out worldwide in all formats on April 6th.

P.E. Hewitt’s was but 16 years old when he recorded and released – in a press of 50 copies – his debut album Jawbones. By the time he sold through the 100 copies of this third, Winter Winds, he was approaching the ripe-age of 20. The three albums he and his young compatriots wrote, recorded, pressed and – if you can call it that – distributed, are three of the rarest damn-good 70s jazz albums you could ever hope to come across. That’s a subtle, but important distinction. There are many rare jazz albums in every imaginable subgenre – funk, free, fusion… But Hewitt’s three albums were so damn-good that neither micro presses nor forty years of silence could suppress their reemergence.

We decided against compiling a “best of” anthology out of respect for Hewitt’s monstrous achievements and because, well, these albums are so damn-good. Instead, on offer is a three album hard-box set with directly reissues of the albums in thick “tip on” sleeves. CD box set mimics the vinyl format, but with CDs packaged as “mini LPs” in the hard box. Also included is an extensive booklet which includes the original liner notes from the albums, an essay on Hewitt and his career, a thorough interview with Hewitt by Egon and Groove Merchant “Cool” Chris Veltri, and never before seen photos.

Link: “Bada Que Bash

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Triorganico Live At El Cid, Los Angeles

Triorganico just played a set with J.Rocc at historic L.A. venue El Cid.

The L.A. Weekly/Bluefat.com’s John Payne had this to say:

“An eternally mystifying mélange of heart and modernity, Brazilian music will always enthrall for its urge to gobble up every moving sonority in its path and combine it with the beauty of its Afro-Euro roots.

Triorganico’s Convivencia album (out on the excellent Now-Again label) gives these L.A.’s garage-bossa fellas a chance to display a fresh cannibalization of those roots in decidedly rougher, truer tones. Their palette mostly derives from ’60s-70s Latin jazz greatness, an era that reinvigorated South American sounds with heat, grit and wondrously intuitive invention.

Featuring expat Rio man Fabiano do Nascimento on guitar, Pablo Calogero on saxophones and woodwinds, and Ricardo “Tiki” Pasillas on percussion, Triorganico shakes the dirt offa the roots in warmly felt and deliciously skewed angles.”

Don’t have their Now-Again album Convivencia? Catch up and cop it here.

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