Stefon Harris - African Tarantella - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Stefon Harris is one of today's brightest young jazz stars evolving from one project to the next. Stefon has gathered a new group of musicians, known as InchBlackout,Inch to help document the music of today. From the Sting Cover InchUntilInch to the Latin-infused original InchRed-Bone, Netti-Bone,Inch Stefon and Blackout has delivered one of the year's best and highly-anticipated releases of 2004. Album Tracks 1. Nothing Personal 2. For Him, for Her 3. Until 4. Red Bone, Netti Bone 5. A Touch of Grace 6. Summertime 7. Blackout 8. The Lost Ones 9. King Tut 10. The Message 11. Montana

Vibraphonis Stefon Harris, saxophonist David Sanchez and trumpeter Christian Scott cross the divide of language, politics and culture on their new recording, NINETY MILES. The CD/DVD includes a sneak peek of the forth coming documentary, NINETY MILES, and two bonus live performances. Album Tracks 1. Nengueleru 2. E'cha 3. City Sunrise 4. The Forgotten Ones 5. Black Action Figure 6. Congo 7. And This Too Shall Pass 8. Brown Belle Blues 9. La Fiesta Va 1. Sneak Peek of the Documentary Ninety Miles 2. City Sunrise [Live] 3. La Fiesta Va [Live]

Grachan Moncur III's New Africa Returns in a Timely and Definitive ReissueA fearless, Afrocentric jazz landmark - remastered from the original tapes and reissued in deluxe form, with new liner notes, restored art, and a visionary lineup that still burns with revolutionary fire.A vital document of artistic resistance and spiritual searching, New Africa captures a transformative moment in jazz and global Black consciousness. Recorded in Paris in 1969 by the storied BYG tag, the album stands as a deeply personal and boldly experimental statement from American trombonist and composer Grachan Moncur III - one of the most compelling figures of the avant-garde movement.Driven by a sense of urgency and vision, New Africa channels the energy of a world in flux. Moncur, deeply moved by his journey to Algiers during a pivotal cultural gathering, poured that experience into a work that is at once avant-garde and grounded in ancestral memory. The music does not seek comfort - it provokes, interrogates, and ultimately uplifts.Across it's four tracks, Moncur challenges structure, tone, and expectation. The album's movements shift fluidly between tension and resolution, melody and abstraction, lament and celebration. It is jazz as prophecy - rooted in Black radical thought and extended through fearless improvisation.More than 50 years on, New Africa remains a resonant artistic cry urgent, unresolved, and unafraid to imagine what liberation might sound like. This reissue gives the album the treatment it has long deserved, offering listeners a renewed opportunity to engage with one of the most potent recordings of it's time - and of ours. Album Tracks 1. New Africa 2. Space Spy 3. Exploration 4. When