Contemporary Jazz

Amina

Release Date: 1988

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Happiness (5:15)
  2. Keep On Loving (4:30)
  3. Yes, It's Real (4:50)
  4. Song From The West (5:30)
  5. Nolan (4:54)
  6. Arms (6:00)
  7. B I. (6:40)
  8. Nisamehe (5:40)

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Song For Mother E

Release Date: 1980

Country: UK

Tracklist

  1. I'm Not Afraid (4:42)
  2. 3/4's Of 4/4 (5:15)
  3. Have Mercy Upon Us / Chant (10:50)
  4. Song For Mother E (3:40)
  5. The Real Side (5:50)
  6. The Immortal (5:36)
  7. Inner Destruction (7:36)
  8. I'm Not Afraid, Refrain (3:09)

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Salutes Bessie Smith

Release Date: 1980

Country: UK

Tracklist

  1. Wasted Life Blues (7:00)
  2. Dirty No-Gooder's Blues (4:10)
  3. Jailhouse Blues (6:40)
  4. It Makes My Love Come Down (3:45)
  5. The Blues (Straight To You) (7:45)
  6. African Blues (14:42)

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Poems For Piano (The Piano Music Of Marion Brown)

Release Date: 1979

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Toomer Triptych
  2. Sunday Comedown (9:18)
  3. Golden Lady In The Graham Cracker Window (5:00)
  4. Sienna Maimoun (4:00)
  5. Going Home (6:08)

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Everyday

Release Date: 2025-02-28

Country: Japan

Tracklist

  1. Intro. The Only Way (1:11)
  2. Everyday (4:18)
  3. Bad Bye (4:12)
  4. Car 16 15 E (5:02)
  5. Must Have Known (3:43)
  6. Off To Space (4:33)
  7. Iron Giraffe (6:26)
  8. Hung Up On My Baby (6:27)
  9. Curiosity (6:38)

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Midnight Crisp

Release Date: 2022-10-21

Country: UK

Tracklist

  1. Midnight Crisp (5:26)
  2. Time Coil (6:35)
  3. It's Okay (6:05)
  4. Dead End Dance (4:21)
  5. Old Picture (5:19)
  6. Choy Soda (4:47)

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Rising Son

Release Date: 2014

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Rising Son
  2. Afro Blues
  3. Piri Piri
  4. Mala
  5. Everybody Loves The Sunshine
  6. Green And Gold
  7. Sometime, Somewhere, Somehow
  8. Call

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Somewhere Different

Release Date: 2021-08-13

Country: Europe

Tracklist

  1. Love & Struggle (5:41)
  2. Olivia Benson (4:04)
  3. Beautiful Is Black (7:10)
  4. Pretend (4:33)
  5. Reclamation (6:42)
  6. Spirit U Will (7:15)
  7. Somewhere Different (5:29)
  8. Tickled Pink (3:00)

by shauncat

Gadabout Season

Release Date: 2025-06-13

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Reckoning (2:05)
  2. End Means (4:12)
  3. Gadabout Season (4:45)
  4. Breaking Point (2:43)
  5. Reflection Eternal (2:18)
  6. New Pinnacle (4:49)
  7. Surrender (5:26)
  8. BBL (4:55)
  9. Unswept Corners (4:34)
  10. Discernment (6:51)

by shauncat

Brandee Younger 肖像照，摄影：Erin Patrice O’Brien

Brandee Younger

Brandee Younger 是美国爵士竖琴演奏家、作曲家与乐队领队。她把竖琴从传统的古典与室内乐语境带入当代爵士，也让灵性爵士、R&B、灵魂乐和嘻哈的节奏语言在同一件乐器上交汇。她的演奏既重视拨弦的颗粒感与低音律动，也擅长用流动的琶音营造开阔、富于冥想气息的音场。

她在纽约长岛成长，早年唱福音歌曲，并接受古典竖琴训练；与此同时，嘻哈和旧派灵魂乐同样塑造了她的聆听经验。青少年时期，父亲带她接触 Alice Coltrane 的音乐，成为她探索爵士竖琴的重要转折。她也持续关注 Dorothy Ashby 的创作：这两位前辈让竖琴不再只是伴奏或装饰性的声音，而能成为爵士即兴与个人叙事的中心。

Younger 的作品一面继承这条传统，一面与当代节拍、采样文化和流行音乐展开对话。她曾与 Pharoah Sanders、Christian McBride、Common、Lauryn Hill 和 John Legend 等音乐人合作。她为不同风格的歌手与乐队录音、演出，也以自己的乐队呈现竖琴与贝斯、鼓之间具有弹性的节奏关系。作为教育者，她在纽约大学与新学院任教，继续推动年轻乐手认识竖琴在即兴音乐中的可能性。

2021 年的《Somewhere Different》是她在 Impulse! 唱片公司发行的首张专辑；其中的〈Beautiful Is Black〉获得格莱美“最佳器乐作曲”提名。2023 年的《Brand New Life》进一步向 Dorothy Ashby 致意，重新演绎并激活其作品，同时加入 Younger 自己的创作；该专辑获得 2024 年 NAACP Image Award“杰出爵士专辑”奖。2025 年的《Gadabout Season》则更集中于她的原创音乐，以个人感受和旅途经验为线索，延续她对爵士竖琴音色与节奏边界的探索。

Brandee Younger 与竖琴

图片：Erin Patrice O’Brien / The Kurland Agency

by shauncat

Modes Of Communication: Letters From The Underworlds

Release Date: 2020-04-03

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Yehlisan'uMoya (7:54)
  2. Saziwa Nguwe (2:53)
  3. Beneath The Earth (7:45)
  4. Unyazi (9:49)
  5. Isithunywa (5:10)
  6. Umlotha (9:51)
  7. Shine (9:10)
  8. On The Other Side (4:41)
  9. Umyalez'oPhuthumayo (6:16)
  10. Indawu (8:33)
  11. Emaphusheni (2:35)

by shauncat

The Myth We Choose

Release Date: 2026-06-26

Country: Europe

Tracklist

  1. Kuzodlula
  2. Imvunge KaNtu
  3. Kwamabili
  4. Unembeza
  5. Liyoze Line Nangakithi
  6. What People Say
  7. Primordial Egg
  8. Ekuqaleni
  9. Ḽiṅwalo Ḽa Mubebi
  10. Umbono
  11. Ḽiṅwalo Ḽa Mubebi (Reprise)
  12. Tethered
  13. Ongaphesheya
  14. What People Say (Reprise)
  15. Kozodlula (Reprise)
  16. Zimthilili

by shauncat

Nduduzo Makhathini

Nduduzo Makhathini（恩杜杜佐·马卡蒂尼）是南非钢琴家、作曲家、制作人与教育者，也是当代南非爵士乐颇具辨识度的声音。他来自夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省，其音乐把钢琴即兴、非洲音乐传统与对精神世界的思考交织在一起。对他而言，演奏不仅是旋律与节奏的组织，也是倾听、讲述和与他人建立联系的方式。

他的创作扎根于南非爵士的历史，同时与 John Coltrane、McCoy Tyner 等音乐家的精神爵士传统展开对话。流动的钢琴线条、反复推进的节奏、歌声与吟诵常常共同构成作品的叙事；合奏既保留爵士乐现场即兴的开放性，也能呈现具有仪式感的整体气氛。他长期关注祖鲁文化中的知识、记忆和疗愈观念，并把这些主题转化为可由乐队共同探索的音乐语言。

2020 年的《Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds》使他的作品经由 Blue Note 唱片进入更广泛的国际视野。此后的《In the Spirit of Ntu》（2022）与《uNomkhubulwane》（2024）继续深化他对非洲思想、集体记忆和即兴形式的探索。2026 年的《The Myth We Choose》延续这一创作脉络，展现他在钢琴家与乐队领导者之外，作为概念构思者的一面。

Makhathini 的作品适合从专辑整体聆听：主题、声部和节奏会在不同曲目之间彼此呼应。无论是三重奏中的近距离对话，还是加入歌者与更多乐手后的扩展编制，他都让南非的声音经验与世界爵士乐传统在同一场演奏中相遇。

Nduduzo Makhathini portrait

by shauncat

Joy

Release Date: 2026-07-31

Country: UK

Tracklist

  1. Joy
  2. Landscape Of Dreams
  3. Where I’m Loved
  4. When The Dust Settles
  5. God's By Your Side

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O Holy Night

Release Date: 2022-12-02

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. O Holy Night (5:06)

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Warm In December

Release Date: 2022-11-18

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Warm In December (2:41)

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A Joyful Holiday

Release Date: 2023-10-27

Country: Worldwide

Tracklist

  1. Warm In December (4:13)
  2. Twinkle Twinkle Little Me (4:02)
  3. The Christmas Song (3:26)
  4. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (3:45)
  5. O Holy Night (5:07)
  6. The Christmas Song (Live) (3:52)

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Lush Life

Release Date: 2023-05-19

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Lush Life (5:24)

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Tight

Release Date: 2023-09-08

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Tight (1:55)

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Someone Like You

Release Date: 2023-06-22

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Someone Like You (5:21)

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I Miss You So

Release Date: 2023-04-27

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. I Miss You So (3:43)

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Guess Who I Saw Today (Duo Version)

Release Date: 2023-03-10

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Guess Who I Saw Today (Duo Version) (4:45)
  2. Guess Who I Saw Today (4:09)

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Sweet Pumpkin (Duo Version)

Release Date: 2023-02-07

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Sweet Pumpkin (Duo Version) (3:44)
  2. Sweet Pumpkin (3:54)

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Can't Get Out Of This Mood (Duo Version)

Release Date: 2023-01-13

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Can't Get Out Of This Mood (Duo Version) (4:14)
  2. Can't Get Out Of This Mood (3:42)

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Three Little Words

Release Date: 2025-09-26

Country: US

Tracklist

  1. Three Little Words (4:50)

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The Joy Of Love

Release Date: 2026-02-25

Country: Worldwide

Tracklist

  1. The Joy Of Love (6:11)

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Ibeji

Release Date: 2022-11-11

Country: UK

Tracklist

  1. Doo-shima (9:22)
  2. C..L...A..V.E... (2:24)
  3. Andy's Shuffle (6:29)
  4. Jazz Is About (1:30)
  5. Hear The (2:27)
  6. Dance Of Ancestra (5:04)
  7. Masks-Rituals-Ancestors (2:08)
  8. Our Search For (9:20)
  9. Mark Skit #1 (1:25)
  10. IG Live 20/04/2021 (4:23)
  11. Native Tongues (3:57)
  12. CDC (5:23)
  13. Beat-9.Wav (0:53)
  14. Double Displacement (3:46)
  15. Mark Skit #2 (0:47)
  16. All Roads (6:30)
  17. AAC (2:48)
  18. Alhamdulilah (1:48)
  19. Ibeji (4:18)

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Rain Dance EP

Release Date: 2020-03-06

Country: UK

Tracklist

  1. Rain Dance / Wisdom
  2. Open
  3. Open (Again)
  4. Movementt

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Yellow

Release Date: 2021-07-23

Country: UK

Tracklist

  1. Mercury (5:44)
  2. Say Something (3:49)
  3. About That (2:15)
  4. Venus (6:34)
  5. Green Funk (2:01)
  6. Third Eye (2:49)
  7. May There Be Peace (1:25)
  8. Sun (3:06)
  9. Golden Green (4:04)
  10. Spectre (4:27)
  11. Rahu & Ketu (4:13)
  12. Yellow (2:02)
  13. Our People (4:46)
  14. Mercury (In Retrograde) (1:57)

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Yellower (Vol. 1)

Release Date: 2022-01-26

Country: Worldwide

Tracklist

  1. Say Something (Live On Later With Jools Holland) (3:56)
  2. Golden Green (Live At Pitchfork London) (7:39)
  3. Our People (Live At The Church Studios) (5:13)

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Second Page: A Self-Strewn Portrait

Release Date: 2020

Country: Netherlands

Tracklist

  1. Self Portrait (6:50)
  2. Chatter (1:29)
  3. P Stands For Palace (5:02)
  4. Call It: Young-Woo (6:23)
  5. KASI: A Thorn (4:30)
  6. Thoughts To Be Spoken (4:53)
  7. KASI: Voice (3:59)
  8. Dear Tomorrow (2:37)
  9. Bjork [Live At The Bimhuis] (10:04)

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Third Page: Resonance

Release Date: 2022-11-18

Country: UK

Tracklist

  1. Care Less (9:29)
  2. Blind (9:41)
  3. 0191 (5:46)
  4. Screams Like Vapours (Improv) (2:28)
  5. Letter With No Words (6:35)
  6. As We Are (6:50)
  7. Home (5:16)
  8. Screams Like Vapours (Encore) (2:19)

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Invisible Ropes

Release Date: 2024-10-04

Country: Netherlands

Tracklist

  1. Big Fly (4:29)
  2. Temple Of A Thousand Neon Leggings (9:51)
  3. Brown Door 1 (8:43)
  4. Brown Door 2 (2:44)
  5. Invisible Ropes (8:45)
  6. Dust Bowl 1 (11:34)
  7. Dust Bowl 2 (5:09)
  8. Gold Forest (4:01)
  9. Running Horse Candle (13:53)

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Tilia

Release Date: 2026

Country: Hungary

Tracklist

  1. From The Roots (5:08)
  2. Bark (5:46)
  3. Buds (2:09)
  4. Baucis (6:05)
  5. Basswood (2:29)
  6. Sap (6:16)
  7. Laima (7:24)
  8. Ramificatio (5:53)
  9. Branches (5:07)
  10. Basswood (Reprise) (1:42)

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Y'Y

Country: Worldwide

Tracklist

  1. Mapinguari (Encantado Da Mata) (1:34)
  2. Uiara (Encantada Da Água) - Vida E Cura (3:55)
  3. Viva Naná (2:28)
  4. Dança Dos Martelos (8:24)
  5. Sonho Ancestral (4:52)
  6. Y'Y (5:17)
  7. Mar De Cirandeiras (3:50)
  8. Gloriosa (3:27)
  9. Encantados (9:42)

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Sangue Negro

Release Date: 2016-11-20

Country: Brazil

Tracklist

  1. Encruzilhada (5:41)
  2. Norte (4:35)
  3. Subindo O Morro (7:11)
  4. Samba De Cesar (3:50)
  5. Estudo 0 (7:38)
  6. Sangue Negro (8:43)

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