Description
Title: Starting Today
Artist: Joe Armon-Jones
Label: Brownswood
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060180323370
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2018-05-18
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: DIGIPACK PACKAGING
2018 debut album, by prodigious keys player, composer and producer Joe Armon-Jones, is buoyant, celebratory and welcoming. With a background in jazz, he draws from influences in dub, hip-hop and soul. Different traditions are infused and commingled together. Soulful brass arrangements are colored with carefully-tuned atmospherics; individual flashes of brilliance are bound into the album”s bigger picture. He”s part of London”s young, jazz-influenced music scene. Drawn from that same close-knit circle, the album features the likes of Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia and Oscar Jerome. It”s playing with those – along with Ezra Collective, which he co-founded, and touring with the likes of Ata Kak and Pharoahe Monch – which has honed his playing and grown his ideas. It”s made for a record with an unmistakable depth. He draws on deep musical understanding, making music which is warm and has a feeling of joy. A document of his vision for bringing together his different influences, it”s also a testament to hard-earned, head-turning musical virtuosity.
Tracks:
1.1 Starting Today Ft. Ras Asheber
1.2 Almost Went Too Far
1.3 Mollison Dub
1.4 London”s Face Ft. Oscar Jerome
1.5 Ragify Ft. Big Sharer
1.6 Outro (Fornow)
