Courtney’s playing refreshingly cool new jazzy vibes for you to work, rest and play to! Jam-packed full of new releases and plenty of fun, including many of the artists introducing their own tracks! This week drum swing, joyous black girl magic, brand new music from SHAKTI, big love from the ACT label, music & architecture, and full-on blooz! Courtney's traversed the planet and cooked up a kickin episode this week folks - enjoy!!

Please let all your jazz friends know that they can listen for free on Apple podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music and always at jazz-pod.com

Visit our archive here Join the CPG community by following us on Facebook & Instagram Ask us ANYTHING(!) about jazz over on Twitter Watch our FAB & FUN artist features over on Tiktok

[0'00] Peter Kogan - Pow, Pow, Pow, Pow — Yeah! (Just Before Midnight KOGANOTE) Kogan drums/comp Jake Baldwin tpt ;PeteWhitman tnr Abebi Stafford pno Charlie Lincoln bs.  Kogan's traveled btw jazz, rock & blues & the classical world going from Lightnin’ Hopkins, Floyd Jones & Honeyboy Edwards to a set of timpani in a concert hall with a major symphony orchestra. 

[5'55] Nabaté Isles - Black Girl Magic (Isles/Singleton/Youseef) En Motion ROPEADOPE Nabaté Isles, tpt Badia Farha Mumu Fresh, MC Nikki Grier vcs David Gilmore gtr Sam Barsh, Rachel Eckroth keys Eric Harland dr Allakoi Peete perc.  Grammy-winning Trumpeter, Composer, and Producer Nabaté Isles follows up his acclaimed 2018 release Eclectic Excursions with his second album - En Motion. Referencing the origins of Jazz as dance music, Isles seeks to bring that bounce that brings joy and movement back to the forefront. 

[9'56] Kneebody - Spectra (Live at Le Crescent 2022) Ben Wendel sx Shane Endsley tpt/comp Adam Benjamin keys Nate Wood dr bs. Firebrand US-based collective Kneebody are one of the most adventurous and exciting bands of their generation, known for their sheer virtuosity and musicianship. 

[18'34] Chris Santo Cobbson - Sempe (Self-release) Cobbson gtr/bs/keys/comp

Gareth Lockrane fl Ben Baddoo Balafon Karl Vanden Bossche perc Mark Whitlam dr

beautiful fluid jazz guitar grooves from Ghanaian royalty via London!

[23'05] Gianluca Petrella & Cosmic Renaissance - Universal Language (Schema ) 5'21
Gianluca tb/comp Mirco Rubegni tpt Riccardo Di Vinci bs Simone Padovani perc and Federico Scettri dr Soweto Kinch tnr vc comp

Gianluca Petrella is one of the most internationally renowned Italian musician, composer and producer, winner of the Down Beat Critics Poll in the “Rising Stars” category for two years in a row.

[28'08] Shakti - Mohanam (This Moment) Self Release 5'57
McLaughlin gtr Zakir Hussain tbla/konokol Shankar Mahadevan vc Ganesh Rajagopalan vln Selvaganesh Vinayakram perc/konokol 
THE PIONEERING GLOBAL FUSION ENSEMBLE CO-FOUNDED BY JOHN McLAUGHLIN AND ZAKIR HUSSAIN – RELEASE FIRST NEW STUDIO RECORDING IN 45 YEARS

[34'00] Jacques Schwartz-Bart - Sun Salutation (The Harlem Suite ROPEADOPE) 4'23 Jacques Schwarz-Bart sx/comp Victor Gould pno Matt Penman bs Marcus Gilmore dr
Jacques Schwarz-Bart has been at the center of several musical revolutions: Neo Soul next to D’angelo and Erika Badu, New Jazz as a founding member of Roy Hargrove's RH Factor, and he is a leading pioneer in the creation of two surging new styles: Gwoka Jazz, and Voodoo jazz, reuniting jazz music with its Afro-Caribbean and spiritual origins. Jacques’ impressionistic writing, powerful tone, and wide-ranging language – both lyrical and angular – have fueled a growing presence on the world stage.

[38'21] Nils Landgren - Let's ACT Together (3 Generations ACT 4'14)
Nils Landgren has been and remains the absolute linchpin of the ACT family. Working alongside pro- ducer and ACT founder Siggi Loch, Nils Landgren brings together three generations of ACT artists’ in various line- ups to mark the label’s 30th anniversary. 

[42'28] Designers - Point Ligne Sur Plan WE JAZZ Joachim Florent bs Aki Rissanen pno  Will Guthrie dr 'Designers' is a new minimalist piano trio inspired by geometry and architecture "I discovered Filip Dujardin's work some ten years ago and I was struck by the power of these impossible architectures looking so familiar and totally surrealist in the meantime. I guess that's how I would love Designers to sound: both familiar and surrealist."

[49'30] Grant Geissman - Rage Cage (Blooz FUTURISM) GEISSMAN gtr/comp JIM COX Hammond TREY HENRY bs RAY BRINKER dr. Veteran guitarist and composer GRANT GEISSMAN: “The album is called BLOOZ because it’s my take on the blues. It’s a fairly wide interpretation, and not always traditional,” said Geissman. “It’s the album I always wanted to make.”

Next wk on Courtney Pine Global: fabulous beats from Brisbane, wild experimentation from a PBS Young Elder of Jazz + a big friend of CPG bringin home the beans and rice!  Hit subscribe right now and dig in next week!