The Cork Jazz Festival sounded like a big success this year with lots of good reports from those who attended. Here's one interesting review which I came across online this week.

read Fridaze Jazz Cuts

I came across this documentary earlier in the week ‘Jazzin the Black Forest’. It’s a brief history about the pioneering leftfield jazz record label – MPS also referred to as the German Blue Note and is an…

read Fridaze Jazz Cuts

This week we’ve got a special Jazz Post. We have listed 10 Jazz tracks below so the first person to list the Producer / Artist(s) to have sampled them and on which track will win a special ChoiceCuts goodie bag…

read Fridaze Jazz Cuts

The JazzNOTJazz Podcast is certainly worth mentioning this week as its full of really cool Jazz mixes from various guests. It also features all things good for your ears. Jazz Funk Boogie Disco Reggae Latin…

read Fridaze Jazz Cuts

Label love indeed. We thought it would be nice to shed some light over a favorite record label of ours from the early eighties and one that has had many classic productions from the main man behind the boards – Roy…

read Uno Melodic – Label Love

Music for Jazz Dancers is a compilation that will be coming out on the 31st of May this year on Freestyle Records. It will host a an exclusive selection of nuggets taken directly from Dj Adrian Gibsons Dj sets from his…

read Music for Jazz Dancers – Freestyle

Matthew Halsall is from Manchester and plays trumpet like nothing we’ve heard in a while.  He just hooked us up with a great mix which is available to download at 320Kbps below…
Big shout out to Fruitman for…

read Matthew Halsall – ChoiceCuts Guest Mix

Just finalised the artwork last night for our first release. We think it is a special record and we have Didier from Timmion mastering it for us and Honest Jon’s in the mix for global distribution, more news on this…

read The Heritage EP

If you like your jazz you may well of heard of this Detroit collective known as Tribe already but if you haven’t then in your in for a treat as Soul Jazz have just released an anthology of their finer moments entitled…

read Tribe – A Message From The Tribe

When hip-hop trio Digable Planets emerged in the early 90s, their memorable moniker raised eyebrows. What, exactly, did it mean? The name sprang, they explained, from the notion that every individual is a planet. But the unique worlds that their tracks mapped out were not insular ones; as their Grammy-winning hit Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" would prove, the Planets were primed to connect with audiences weary of the aggressive posturing of Gangsta rap. Digable Planets play their first Irish show for ChoiceCuts in Crawdaddy.

read Digable Planets & U.G.O Band

Great news just in, we just confirmed the booking of legendary Hip Hop-Jazz outfit Digable Planets.
A favourite of ours ever since the double bass slapped on the infamous Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat) single….

read Digable Planets to play ChoiceCuts

Bless the people over at Brownswood and of course Jose James & Flying Lotus for slipping this track out on the net to help promote their new offering. From the recently released Black Magic LP, Jose James is in…

read Code

We have been following these guys since their first recordings and they delivered a superb live show for us last year in The Sugar Club, their new Lp came out last week – Rising Sun – and we just hawked this new…

read Rising Sun

The brothers return to launch our collaborative project The Heritage EP. After making Ireland their second home over the last 3 years Hypnotic have blessed us with our first official recording and these 4 shows around Ireland will bear witness to the first live renditions of the songs we mixed down with them back in October. Expect to hear some exclusive reworkings performed live as per the EP and also the classic Hypnotic tracks they are famous for. Don’t forget to check for Hypnotic on the new Gorillaz LP also.

read Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Heritage EP) Tour

Here is an artist that doesn’t come around to often these days. A 25 year old self taught trumpeter, composer, arranger, producer and band leader from Manchester who along with others such as Finn Peters & the…

read Introducing Matthew Hallsall

Gil Scott Herons Album launch is nearing each day. Coming out on XL we featured a link a couple of months back to some soundbites from the Album, his first release since 1994. The Album is titles ‘I’m New Here’ and…

read Where did the night go?

Jose James Live in Paris. Currently touring Europe and selling out shows left, right and centre. We hope to get him over soon to Dublin, check out his unique style of performing and his supertight band. There is…

read Facing East

The widely lauded vocalist and musician Jose James is starting to get the hype machine rolling for his imminent second release on Brownswood scheduled for October 26th titled Black Magic. Fly Lo is behind the boards…

read Black Magic – Jose James

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Tour of Ireland (playing Dublin at DEAF09, Cork Jazz Festival, Galway-Roisin Dubh and Limericks Trinity Rooms)

Heralded as one of the best live shows in the world at the moment, the…

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Thanks for Mr. Laws for hippin us to this.
Robert Glaspers new project involving his Trio and his Experiment.
Anyone who was amazed by this man and his band at our Q-Tip show back in March should go and buy this,…

read Double Booked