Max Roach we Insist!

Throughout a career that spanned more than 40 years, Coleman Hawkins consistently maintained a progressive attitude, operating at or near the cutting edge of developments in jazz. If Hawk's versatility came in handy when he backed Abbey Lincoln during Max Roach's 1960 We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, he took on an assignment of challenging dimensions when in 1963 he cut an entire album with Sonny Rollins in the company of pianist Paul Bley, bassists Bob Cranshaw and Henry Grimes, and drummer Roy McCurdy. Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins each virtually defined the tenor saxophone for his respective generation…

A Brooklyn-based keyboardist and producer, Jesse Fischer confronts his audience with contemporary issues, producing a powerful, thought-provoking recording in the tradition of Max Roach’s We Insist!. With collaborators including Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Mino Cinélu, and Gregoire Maret, the release explores everything from Fischer’s Jewish heritage and identity to the Black Lives Matter movement, all without compromising musical integrity or excitement.
Fischer displays an Ellingtonian ability to conjure emotions, ideas, and impressions out of harmony, blending vocals, horns, and keyboards into an evocative portrait of the modern world. “Healing,” showcases this exceptionally with horns and synths building meditatively and crescendoing to a triumphant conclusion…

Sons of Kemet returns in 2021 with their new album Black To The Future, the follow up to 2018’s Mercury Prize nominated breakout release Your Queen Is A Reptile. This release finds the UK-based quartet at their most dynamic – showcasing harmonically elegant arrangements and compositions, coupled with fierce, driving material that will be familiar to initiated fans.