Adrian Younge - Roy Ayers Jid002 - VINYL LP

Younge is Adrian Younge's magnum opus an orchestral album written from the perspective of a hip hop producer, and a hip hop record composed with the discipline of classical and cinematic music. It reframes orchestral composition not as nostalgia, but as a living language built for reinterpretation.Inspired by composers like Lalo Schifrin, David Axelrod, Ennio Morricone, Galt MacDermot, Bo Hansson, and later visionaries such as Portishead's Geoff Barrow, the album draws from a lineage of emotionally charged, forward-thinking music that quietly shaped hip hop decades later through sampling. These were records defined by tension, restraint, and atmosphere-qualities Younge places at the center of this work.Recorded entirely to tape at Linear Labs, Younge unfolds like a lost soundtrack from an alternate history modular compositions, dramatic movements, and themes that feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. The music anticipates reuse-it invites sampling, deconstruction, and dialogue-without ever feeling unfinished.Adrian Younge has spent years testing orchestral music in front of live audiences, refining how large ensembles communicate energy, space, and narrative. That experience is embedded in the record. Every arrangement breathes. Every silence matters.This is not orchestral music collaborating with hip hop. It is orchestral music as hip hop-spoken fluently across time. Album Tracks 1. Portschute 2. Human Absence 3. Galt 4. Moon Traveling 5. Different Directions 6. Visual Assault 7. Respond to Sound 8. Clockwise 9. Il Mattino

Vinyl LP pressing. Over the last decade, the Los Angeles-based band Katalyst has carved out a name for themselves as bearers of the community driven jazz scene, popping up on major releases while remaining an integral incubator for outstretched corners of the emerging sound. The group members have become favorites of Jazz Is Dead, appearing on stage with legends like Ronnie Laws and Lonnie Liston Smith, and backing Gary Bartz and Roy Ayers on their respective releases with the tag. Here, the nascent superstars convene with maestros Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad to document their chameleonic pallet and ever-growing profile as one of the most exciting emerging groups in the genre. Album Tracks 1. The Avenues 2. Daybreak 3. Corridors 4. Summer Solstice 5. Juneteenth 6. Dogon Cypher 7. Reflections

Double vinyl LP pressing. Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge are best known for their collaborations with vocalists and MCs, but these two multi-instrumentalists and producers excel in their ability to conjure musical moods with or without vocal accompaniment. Similarly, the musical legends that these two handpicked to collaborate with across this series are all jazz legends equally at home crafting unadorned compositions as they are collaborating with vocalists. This double-LP collection presents exclusive instrumental versions of songs originally released on the Jazz Is Dead albums; Roy Ayers JID002, Marcos Valle JID003, Gary Bartz JID006, and João Donato JID007. Instrumentals JID009 captures the musical alchemy produced at the Linear Labs Studio by Adrian and Ali and their featured guests Roy Ayers, Marcos Valle, Gary Bartz & João Donato. These 19 instrumental recordings encapsulate the spirit of the Jazz Is Dead concert and recording series, celebrating the African-American art form known as jazz through improvisation, musical collaboration and authentic cross-generational and cross-cultural communication. Album Tracks 1. Hey Lover 2. Oi 3. Visions of Love 4. Aquarius (Bring Her Back Home to Me) 5. Soulful and Unique 6. Isso É Que Eu Sei 7. Nao Negue Seu Coracao 8. Sunflowers 9. Queira Bem 10. Day By Day 11. Gotta Love Again 12. Forever More 13. Synchronized Vibration 14. Viajando Por Aí 15. Gravity 16. Não Saia Da Praça 17. Sua Beleza E Beleza 18. African Sounds 19. A Gente Volta Amanha