Here is the “lost” end-of-year Quiet Brilliance wrap-up session. If you ignore the rest, this one has the best. 3 hours, all gems, obviously.

….Between July and December 2019 I delivered 22 shows to Jazzuary FM, 13 of which got to the archive. Thus, I’m posting the 9 lost sessions. This was the final Quiet Brilliance show to “air”…

“Weekly adventures in quietly and brilliantly grooving ark-ival jazz, soul and related sounds and spirits, spanning the planet and recorded history – classics and future classics, dug-for treasures, materials variously recombined and reworked. The quiet (and sometimes not-so quiet), and the brilliant, so-labelled in reference to Ken Quashie’s and Kodwo Eshun’s respective guidebooks for such a sonic journey. The luminaries inevitably feature, meaning names and sounds like Coltrane, Herbie, Stevie, Minnie, Dilla, Dego, and plenty of less-commonly mentioned but just as significant characters, a healthy dose of latin, and African sounds, broken beat for sure, smatterings of gospel, folk, Indian classical, no doubt occasional hip-hop, drum & bass, and new electronic mutations thereof, all wrung through the machinery of electronic music and performed afresh as befitting a present era producing-performing-DJ augmented by the tools of the times.”

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A nostalgic one for best/end-of-the-decade. 3 hours of gems from across ten years of jazz, soul, broken and beyond , the likes of Jerry Gonzalez, Woody Shaw (because, the box set) Kamasi Washington, Vijay Iyer, Thandi Ntuli, Lauren Desberg, Dego and Kaidi, Sandra St Victor, Robert Glasper, Josh Milan, Tribe Called Quest, Thundercat, D’angelo, MdCL, Marcus STrickland, Terrace Martin, King, Jacob Collier, and Gregory Porter.

….Between July and December 2019 I delivered 22 shows to Jazzuary FM, 13 of which got to the archive. Thus, I’m posting the 9 lost sessions. This was the #21st Quiet Brilliance show to “air”…

“Weekly adventures in quietly and brilliantly grooving ark-ival jazz, soul and related sounds and spirits, spanning the planet and recorded history – classics and future classics, dug-for treasures, materials variously recombined and reworked. The quiet (and sometimes not-so quiet), and the brilliant, so-labelled in reference to Ken Quashie’s and Kodwo Eshun’s respective guidebooks for such a sonic journey. The luminaries inevitably feature, meaning names and sounds like Coltrane, Herbie, Stevie, Minnie, Dilla, Dego, and plenty of less-commonly mentioned but just as significant characters, a healthy dose of latin, and African sounds, broken beat for sure, smatterings of gospel, folk, Indian classical, no doubt occasional hip-hop, drum & bass, and new electronic mutations thereof, all wrung through the machinery of electronic music and performed afresh as befitting a present era producing-performing-DJ augmented by the tools of the times.”

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The seventh of nine lost sessions … This one was a recap of some of the best stuff from the past two months of shows sprinkled with new things too. Some of these records are just plain fantastic.

….Between July and December 2019 I delivered 22 shows to Jazzuary FM, 13 of which got to the archive. Thus, I’m posting the 9 lost sessions.

This was the #20th Quiet Brilliance show to “air”…

“Weekly adventures in quietly and brilliantly grooving ark-ival jazz, soul and related sounds and spirits, spanning the planet and recorded history – classics and future classics, dug-for treasures, materials variously recombined and reworked. The quiet (and sometimes not-so quiet), and the brilliant, so-labelled in reference to Ken Quashie’s and Kodwo Eshun’s respective guidebooks for such a sonic journey. The luminaries inevitably feature, meaning names and sounds like Coltrane, Herbie, Stevie, Minnie, Dilla, Dego, and plenty of less-commonly mentioned but just as significant characters, a healthy dose of latin, and African sounds, broken beat for sure, smatterings of gospel, folk, Indian classical, no doubt occasional hip-hop, drum & bass, and new electronic mutations thereof, all wrung through the machinery of electronic music and performed afresh as befitting a present era producing-performing-DJ augmented by the tools of the times.”

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The sixth of nine lost sessions … kicking off with a “Mode for Trane”, and along the way then there’s some Tribe, Moacir Santos, live Herbie Hancock, Kaidi, Deniece Williams, Minnie Ripperton (as ever!!!) , and so on and so on.

As this was a weekly show, and these last few archives come one after the other, there are some songs repeated across shows, an effort to give them a chance to be heard! No apologies for this.

….Between July and December 2019 I delivered 22 shows to Jazzuary FM, 13 of which got to the archive. Thus, I’m posting the 9 lost sessions.

This was the #19th Quiet Brilliance show to “air”…

“Weekly adventures in quietly and brilliantly grooving ark-ival jazz, soul and related sounds and spirits, spanning the planet and recorded history – classics and future classics, dug-for treasures, materials variously recombined and reworked. The quiet (and sometimes not-so quiet), and the brilliant, so-labelled in reference to Ken Quashie’s and Kodwo Eshun’s respective guidebooks for such a sonic journey. The luminaries inevitably feature, meaning names and sounds like Coltrane, Herbie, Stevie, Minnie, Dilla, Dego, and plenty of less-commonly mentioned but just as significant characters, a healthy dose of latin, and African sounds, broken beat for sure, smatterings of gospel, folk, Indian classical, no doubt occasional hip-hop, drum & bass, and new electronic mutations thereof, all wrung through the machinery of electronic music and performed afresh as befitting a present era producing-performing-DJ augmented by the tools of the times.”

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The fifth of nine lost sessions (and it’s a good one this one! gems within)

Between July and December 2019 I delivered 22 shows to Jazzuary FM, 13 of which got to the archive. Thus, I’m posting the 9 lost sessions.

This was the #12th Quiet Brilliance show to “air”…

“Weekly adventures in quietly and brilliantly grooving ark-ival jazz, soul and related sounds and spirits, spanning the planet and recorded history – classics and future classics, dug-for treasures, materials variously recombined and reworked. The quiet (and sometimes not-so quiet), and the brilliant, so-labelled in reference to Ken Quashie’s and Kodwo Eshun’s respective guidebooks for such a sonic journey. The luminaries inevitably feature, meaning names and sounds like Coltrane, Herbie, Stevie, Minnie, Dilla, Dego, and plenty of less-commonly mentioned but just as significant characters, a healthy dose of latin, and African sounds, broken beat for sure, smatterings of gospel, folk, Indian classical, no doubt occasional hip-hop, drum & bass, and new electronic mutations thereof, all wrung through the machinery of electronic music and performed afresh as befitting a present era producing-performing-DJ augmented by the tools of the times.”

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The fourth of nine lost sessions.

Between July and December 2019 I delivered 22 shows to Jazzuary FM, only 13 of which got to the archive. Thus, I have dug through the hard drives in order to retrieve the 9 lost sessions.

This was the #11th Quiet Brilliance show to “air”, the third one that Jazzuary didn’t make available after “airing”, and my fourth post in this series…

“Weekly adventures in quietly and brilliantly grooving ark-ival jazz, soul and related sounds and spirits, spanning the planet and recorded history – classics and future classics, dug-for treasures, materials variously recombined and reworked. The quiet (and sometimes not-so quiet), and the brilliant, so-labelled in reference to Ken Quashie’s and Kodwo Eshun’s respective guidebooks for such a sonic journey. The luminaries inevitably feature, meaning names and sounds like Coltrane, Herbie, Stevie, Minnie, Dilla, Dego, and plenty of less-commonly mentioned but just as significant characters, a healthy dose of latin, and African sounds, broken beat for sure, smatterings of gospel, folk, Indian classical, no doubt occasional hip-hop, drum & bass, and new electronic mutations thereof, all wrung through the machinery of electronic music and performed afresh as befitting a present era producing-performing-DJ augmented by the tools of the times.”

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The third of nine lost sessions.

Between July and December 2019 I delivered 22 shows to Jazzuary FM, only 13 of which got to the archive. Thus, I have dug through the hard drives in order to retrieve the 9 lost sessions.

This was the #9th Quiet Brilliance show to “air”, the third one that Jazzuary didn’t make available after “airing”, and is my third post in this series…

“Weekly adventures in quietly and brilliantly grooving ark-ival jazz, soul and related sounds and spirits, spanning the planet and recorded history – classics and future classics, dug-for treasures, materials variously recombined and reworked. The quiet (and sometimes not-so quiet), and the brilliant, so-labelled in reference to Ken Quashie’s and Kodwo Eshun’s respective guidebooks for such a sonic journey. The luminaries inevitably feature, meaning names and sounds like Coltrane, Herbie, Stevie, Minnie, Dilla, Dego, and plenty of less-commonly mentioned but just as significant characters, a healthy dose of latin, and African sounds, broken beat for sure, smatterings of gospel, folk, Indian classical, no doubt occasional hip-hop, drum & bass, and new electronic mutations thereof, all wrung through the machinery of electronic music and performed afresh as befitting a present era producing-performing-DJ augmented by the tools of the times.”

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The second of nine lost sessions. The sixth I delivered to Jazzuary FM:

Between July and December 2019 I delivered 22 shows to Jazzuary FM, only 13 of which got to the archive. Thus, I have dug through the hard drives in order to retrieve the lost sessions.

This was show #6. It’s the second one that was lost, the second post in this series. Hope you enjoy.

“Weekly adventures in quietly and brilliantly grooving ark-ival jazz, soul and related sounds and spirits, spanning the planet and recorded history – classics and future classics, dug-for treasures, materials variously recombined and reworked. The quiet (and sometimes not-so quiet), and the brilliant, so-labelled in reference to Ken Quashie’s and Kodwo Eshun’s respective guidebooks for such a sonic journey. The luminaries inevitably feature, meaning names and sounds like Coltrane, Herbie, Stevie, Minnie, Dilla, Dego, but plenty of less-commonly mentioned but just as significant characters, a healthy dose of latin, and African sounds, broken beat for sure, smatterings of gospel, folk, Indian classical, no doubt occasional hip-hop, drum & bass, and new electronic mutations thereof, all wrung through the machinery of electronic music and performed afresh as befitting a present era producing-performing-DJ augmented by the tools of the times.”

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Between July and December 2019 I delivered 22 shows to Jazzuary FM, only 13 of which got to the archive. Thus, I have dug through the hard drives in order to retrieve the lost sessions. This one was the fourth show, and the first to be lost. The last few at the end of the year were particularly fun as I rounded up both the year and the decade, so keep an eye out for those to be posted.

“Weekly adventures in quietly and brilliantly grooving ark-ival jazz, soul and related sounds and spirits, spanning the planet and recorded history – classics and future classics, dug-for treasures, materials variously recombined and reworked. The quiet (and sometimes not-so quiet), and the brilliant, so-labelled in reference to Ken Quashie’s and Kodwo Eshun’s respective guidebooks for such a sonic journey. The luminaries inevitably feature, meaning names and sounds like Coltrane, Herbie, Stevie, Minnie, Dilla, Dego, but plenty of less-commonly mentioned but just as significant characters, a healthy dose of latin, and African sounds, broken beat for sure, smatterings of gospel, folk, Indian classical, no doubt occasional hip-hop, drum & bass, and new electronic mutations thereof, all wrung through the machinery of electronic music and performed afresh as befitting a present era producing-performing-DJ augmented by the tools of the times.”

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Five hours and eighteen minutes of soul, jazz, latin and related sounds recorded live on February 15 2018 at the weekly sessions held there by 4torque. Anyone for a roadtrip?

1. Horace Silver Wont You Open Up Your Senses

2. Leroy Hutson The Cool Out

3. Aaries Baby This Love I Have

4. Don Blackman Holding You Loving You

5. Robert Glasper Its Gonna Be Alright

6. Marcus Strickland Alive

7. MdCL U Better Run

8. NSM At Peace With Woman

9. Q-Tip Feeling

10. Tribe Called Quest Melatonin

11. De La Soul Trainwreck

12. Solange Cranes in the Sky

13. 2000 Black Simple Sacrifice

14. Robert Glasper Move Love

15. The Playlist Chasing Goosebumps

16. Marcus Strickland Lets Wait Awhile

17. Roy Hargrove How I Know

18. Omar World Of You

19. D’angelo Really Love

20. Earth Wind and Fire Cant Hide Love

21. Kindred Far Away

22. Anita Baker Sweet Love

23. Aretha Franklin Your all I Need

24. Chaka Khan Destiny

25. Kenia Distant Horizon

26. Ondrea Duverny You Know What its Like

27. Candeas Palmeiras

28. Tamba Trio O Jogo Da Vida

29. Donald Byrd Books Bossa

30. Zara McFarlane Angie La La

31. Nathan Haines Wonderful Thing

32. Gary Bartz Ive Known Rivers

33. Quincy Jones Tell me a Bedtime Story

34. Susaye In The Night

35. Bo Kirkland and Ruth Davis Get Next To Me

36. Jean Carn Dont Let It Go To Your Head

37. Jones Girls Nights Over Egypt

38. Herbie Hancock Stars In Your Eyes

39. Chaka Khan Be Bop Medley

40. Howard Johnson So Fine

41. Lizz Fields When I See Love

42. MdCL Running for Nothing

43. Dego We’ve Been Here Before

44. 2000 Black Tomorrow’s Day

45. Silhouette Brown Hear Them Often Say

46. Luther Vandross Never Too Much

47. Rebirth This Journey In

48. Zara McFarlane Peace Begins Within

49. Jamiroquai Love’s Foolosophy

50. Cassandra Wilson Little Warm Death

51. Joyce London Samba

52. Mark Murphy Waters of March

53. Omar Never Too Late

54. Stevie Wonder Ordinary Pain

55. Futures Aint Got Time for Nuthin

56. Deniece Williams Free

57. Minnie Ripperton Inside My Love

58. John Holt For The Love of You

59. Ramp Everybody Loves the Sunshine

60. Patrice Rushen Settle for My Love

61. Carleen Anderson All that Glitters

62. Thandi Ntuli Cosmic Light

63. Jose James Resolution

64. Mary Lou Williams It Aint Necessarily So

65. Alice Coltrane Turiya and Ramakrishna

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