We're always playing new music on In A Mellow Tone. It's been like that since 1976. Each year, more music is released than the previous year. Let's pause to take stock on recordings that you may have missed. Here are 24 tracks from 2023 albums that have hitherto not been played on In A Mellow Tone.
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Hour one |
Last Breath Primary Colours Trio - Primary Colours - (self-released) - 2023 |
Wind Up Christine Jensen - Day Moon - Justin Time - 2023 |
Running With The Throne (Running With The Tribe) Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison / Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge - Jazz Is Dead 16 - Jazz Is Dead - 2023 |
Raisins Under the Sun Yussef Dayes feat. Shabaka Hutchings - Black Classical Music - Brownswood Recordings - 2023 |
Going, Gone Belbury Poly - The Path - Ghost Box - 2023 |
Flower Nostalgia 77 - The Loneliest Flower In The Village - Jazzman - 2023 |
The Sandpiper Greg Foat & Eero Koivistoinen - Feathers - Jazzaggression - 2023 |
no one else has your magik! muva of earth - align with Nature's Intelligence (AWNI) - Brownswood Recordings - 2023 |
The Negro Experiences The Endless Daily Humiliation Of American Life Which Bequeaths Him A Futureless Future Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem For Jazz - International Anthem - 2023 |
Lujon Badge Époque Ensemble - Air, Light & Harmony - Telephone Explosion - 2023 |
Call Up My Scene Elizabeth Shepherd - Three Things - (self-released) - 2023 |
Nice It Up Idris Ackamoor ☥ The Pyramids - Afro Futuristic Dreams - Strut - 2023 |
Hour two |
Caravanserai Joe Chambers - Dance Kobina - Blue Note - 2023 |
All Heart Muriel Grossmann - Devotion - Third Man - 2023 |
Your Name Gonna Ring The Bell Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek - New Future City Radio - International Anthem - 2023 |
Heart-Spirit-Love Nat Birchall - The Infinite - Ancient Archive of Sound - 2023 |
Dead Ringers Oh No Deconstructs The Music Of Roy Ayers - Good Vibes / Bad Vibes - Nature Sounds - 2023 |
Watermelancholia Brahja - Watermelancholia - cortizona - 2022 |
Relax And Flow Mark Lotz Trio - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out - ZenneZ Records |
Clairvoyant Orhan Demir - Solo Guitar - Freedom In Jazz Vol. 3 - Hittite Records |
Blessings Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Celestial Suite - Marlow - 2023 |
Iceman George - Letters To George - Out Of Your Head - 2023 |
Foxy Trot Duncan Hopkins (orig. Kenny Wheeler) - Who Are You? The Music Of Kenny Wheeler - Three Pines - 2023 |
Vertical Misha Panfilov - Atlântico (Atlantico) - Miraaž Records (Miraaz) - 2023 |
Welcome to tonight's show. I've gone through 40 million tracks released in 2023 and selected 24 that were not played on In A Mellow Tone.
9:07 PM, December 27th, 2023