EASTSIDE ALBUM OF THE WEEK PRESENTS

Marley Del Prete – Movement

[Released – 13 August, 2023 on Awake Nu Records]

Marley Del Prete explores vivaciously the elements of free and spiritual jazz in collaboration with an ensemble of some of Del Prete’s virtuosic jazz contemporaries. This record was created on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Movement is a debut album by Melbourne/Naarm based Spiritual and Free Jazz trumpeter, Marley Del Prete. Produced by a local jazz wizard Nikodimos and mastered by UK spiritual jazz master Nat Birchall, ‘Movement’ explores the link between intense improvised trumpet and beautiful sultry melodies. Marley Del Prete’s Movement shares the spatial freedom of the early free Jazz New York loft scene, which birthed great saxophonists like Arthur Blythe and David Murray, and the Spiritual influences of the Coltranes and Pharoah Sanders. Marley’s trumpet contains a sophistication that is matched by the percussion of Gene Du Vergier &  Max Hazeldine, which together find the rare grooves between the regard and disregard for conventional instrumental conversations between melody and structure.

Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book

[Released – 16 June, 2023 on Blue Note Records]

Acclaimed GRAMMY-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello makes her Blue Note Records debut with the release of The Omnichord Real Book, a visionary Progressive, Nostalgic, Imaginative and technically superior approach to Rnb; a deeply jazz-influenced album that marks the start of a new chapter in her trailblazing career. Following her 2018 covers album Ventriloquism, Meshell returns with an album of new original material that taps into a broad spectrum of her musical roots. The Omnichord Real Book was produced by Josh Johnson and features a wide range of guest artists including Jason Moran, Ambrose Akinmusire, Joel Ross, Jeff Parker, Brandee Younger, Julius Rodriguez, Mark Guiliana, Cory Henry, Joan As Police Woman, Thandiswa, and others.