Name: Instrumentals JID019
Brand: Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-JID-019

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-09-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

4062548042924

Total Cap

Black LP

LP-JID-019IE

Purple

Extended format: Yes

4062548042931

Purple LP

CD-JID-019

2023-10-13

4062548042917

Artist

Adrian Younge

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Genre US

Jazz

Label US

Jazz is Dead

<p>Adrian Younge is an American composer, arranger, and music producer. Born in 1978, he has made a significant impact on the music industry. Alongside Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest, concert producer Andrew Lojero, and industry veteran Adam Block, Adrian co-founded Jazz Is Dead. This global movement is all about community and culture.</p>

Newest Listed Items

Following the star-studded release of Jazz Is Dead’s second series, the venerated label returns with an intimate offering of selected instrumentals from the Series 2 sessions with the legendary vocalist Jean Carne and keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith. Here, standout moments such as Carne’s “Come As You Are” and Smith’s “Love Brings Happiness” shine with a new focus on the process and craft behind them, and the intricacies of the era-accurate all-analog equipment used at Linear Labs Studio become more present. Fertile ground for putting on headphones and embarking on a hazy solo trip, the ten selections on JID019 are transporting and mesmerizing, each track reverberating reverence for the iconic Jazz-Funk sounds made famous by the likes of Carne and Smith, and represent some of the label’s finest work to date. As soon as you hear the low-end rumble that opens “Come As You Are”, you immediately see the vision that Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad have in mind when choosing to work with vintage audio equipment and instruments. Like any great classic album, the percussion comes to life and engulfs the sound stage, animating the rest of the ensemble and propelling the inner paranoia from the saxophone and synths even further than the original. On “Love Brings Happiness”, a standout from Smith’s entry, the oozing distortion that creeps in early on shifts into a more prominent role, leading our ears and bodies through one of Younge and Muhammad’s most intense and kinetic productions in the series so far. As the rest of the tracklist splits evenly between Carne and Smith numbers, the realigned focus becomes apparent; the drums on Carne’s fantastic “The Summertime” ripen and each rimshot further entrenches the groove as the keyboards drift a little bit further than before.

Instrumentals JID019

Music US

Discover Instrumentals JID019 by Adrian Younge. Mesmerizing vinyl records from Jazz Is Dead label. Exclusive music experience.