Sam Blakeslee - Busy BodyBusy Body, the sophomore album from steadfast New York based composer and trombonist Sam Blakeslee and his synergetic ensemble Wistful Thinking. Following their 2021 debut The Long Middle, Blakeslee's intimate, pastoral first statement conceptualized and released mid pandemic, Busy Body builds beyond the bandleader's chamber jazz setting and finds asylum in a realm between fusion and electronica. Soaring through compositions wrought by electronic

most notably on Joe Sanders' Criss Cross release Introducing Joe Sanders (CRC 1344)

but they all share a common theme of personal growth and self-understanding

Get ready for The Take Over

Performers include Talea Ensemble

To that end

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Markus Becker writes: "Solitude

the message clear: The world is changing and we are here

It expands upon where their debut left off with a leaning more towards 70's jazzfunk than soul and a stronger focus on the rhythm section

They are one of the more personal projects to come out of Madrid in a long time

A gorgeous Fado album

Stolzel brings together three poems by Walt Whitman into a song cycle