New Jazz Dispensary Compilation out on RSD Black Friday: Jazz Dispensary will release a new compilation, Haunted High, on pink splatter vinyl via Craft Recordings on Record Store Day’s 2022 Black Friday, November 25. Limited to 5000 copies worldwide, Haunted High is described as « a surreal compilation exploring the furthest depths of outer space and one’s mind, » and includes music by Flora Purim, Mongo Santamaría, Barbara Lewis and more.

Strut Releases First Ever Detroit Artists Workshop Retrospective: Strut released the first ever retrospective of the influential Detroit Artists Workshop, spanning 1965 to 1978. Available now on 2-LP, CD and digitally, John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop features previously unreleased recordings by Donald Byrd, Ron English, Bennie Maupin and Teddy Harris. All tracks are remastered from original tapes by Technology Works.

The Peabody Conservatory Expands Jazz Studies Program This Fall: This fall, the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University looks towards further growth in its Jazz Studies program. Peabody has announced the creation of a new Master of Music in Jazz program, as well as a graduate fellowship, covering full tuition and a stipend for up to three students per year. Other new programs in fall 2022 include a talent development partnership with HBCUs led by Denyce Graves, a supported doctoral pathways program, and Peabody’s first-ever open education resource, making arts career guidance accessible to all.

Jamile and Tony Davis, Daring Two Be (La Reserve): Brazilian vocalist Jamile and guitarist Tony Davis, who met while working in and around the New York jazz club scene, have released a collaborative duo album. Daring Two Be is a ten-track recording that offers invigorating readings of a varied selection of standards, classic jazz and soul compositions.

John Lee, The Artist (Cellar Music): John Lee, a first-call player on the Vancouver jazz scene, showcases his prowess on the bass and as a composer on his new record, The Artist. The album, released on June 3, also captures the great interplay of this project’s quartet, with drummer Carl Allen, pianist Miles Black and tenor saxophonist Cory Weeds.

Our latest JAZZIZ Travel podcast is a conversation with Yale Evelev, record producer and co-owner of Luaka Bop with David Byrne. The conversation covers the identity and history of the label, particularly in the context of its World Spirituality Classics series, a series of spiritual music from around the globe. The recently-released third volume in this series is a compilation of recordings by Alhaji Waziri Oshomah.

A devout Muslim and a pillar in his local community, Alhaji Waziri Oshomah makes a unique form of dance music that’s fused with local folk styles, pan-Nigerian highlife and Western pop, creating a singular sound that epitomizes Afenmailand’s ethos of togetherness. The seven-track featured on The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah were recorded between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s.