

Smith is a soul singer with a pedigree in jazz phraseology and a smooth, authoritative delivery. Germain tune from Tourist, but it's only fair, since the original sampled the hell out of Marlena Shaw's Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux album. Jorja Smith's "Rose Rouge" covers and completely revises the St. Some of these artists, including the Ezra Collective ensemble and saxophonists Shabaka Hutchings and Nubya Garcia, are globally well known, but other names will register as new. Germain's quadruple-platinum sample-delic Tourist?īlue Note Re:Imagined is a 16-track anthology that features the current generation of England's jazz renaissance players dialoguing across time and distance with the label's catalogue. Who can forget Us3's double-platinum Hand on the Torch, Madlib's Shades of Blue, or French electro mavens St. Blue Note, the music's best-known label, has issued similarly approached outings over the decades. In the jazz world, it is an established tradition for musicians from one generation to pay recorded tributes to their forebears. Emma-Jean Thackray - Speak No Evil (Night Dreamer) (5:00).

Melt Yourself Down - Caribbean Fire Dance (3:15).Yazmin Lacey - I'll Never Stop Loving You (4:57).Ishmael Ensemble - Search for Peace (4:21).Skinny Pelembe - Illusion (Silly Apparition) (4:13).Poppy Ajudha - Watermelon Man (Under the Sun) (4:31).
