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Canada's longest running syndicated radio show (40+ years) featuring new releases of the African diaspora.

Featuring music of the African Diaspora, this program sees acoustic ensemble music as a developing world jazz incorporating styles and rhythms which draw from indigenous sources. On the air since June 1986, The Freedom Principle features new releases from the disparate genres of the African Diaspora with occasional forays into specialized thematic programs. Past programs include Manding Swing, Con

golese Rumba, Zimbabwean Liberation, South African Jazz, Mississippi Delta Slide & Moan, African Impressionism in American Jazz, etc.

10/17/2025

Babo Moreno - (2025) Babo Moreno (Brazil) – Matsuka
UK-Brazilian drummer and percussionist Fabio De Oliveira, son of the celebrated Bosco De Oliveira, steps to the front with Babo Moreno—a confident debut that bridges Brazilian rhythmic traditions with London’s cosmopolitan jazz scene. Having played with Sault, Jacob Collier, Terry Callier, and Airto Moreira, De Oliveira brings deep rhythmic fluency to a sound that folds forró, ijexá, and maracatu into supple modern jazz frameworks. The album expresses both heritage and hybridity, reflecting his dual identity as a Londoner with Brazilian roots.
Recorded at Livingston and Fish Factory Studios and produced by De Oliveira himself, the project enlists a heavyweight cast—Dennis Rollins, Ife Ogunjobi, Gilli Lopes, Tamar Osborn, and Baque Luar—to animate grooves that radiate warmth and propulsion. Co-written and co-arranged with Greg Sanders, and mixed by Benedic Lamdin (Nostalgia 77), Babo Moreno situates Brazilian rhythm within London’s new-school jazz continuum: vibrant, technically deft, and rooted in joy. It’s both a tribute to legacy and a forward-looking statement from an artist redefining what British-Brazilian music can sound like.

With Bicho Preguiça (The Sloth) , Babo Moreno crafts a lush, hypnotic ode to the Amazon - its mystery, beauty, and the quiet power of its most unhurried crea...

10/17/2025

Bobby Matos And The Combo Conquistadores - (1968, 2025) My Latin Soul - Mr Bongo
Originally released in 1968 on Phillips, Bobby Matos and The Combo Conquistadores’ My Latin Soul remains a cornerstone of New York’s late-’60s Latin jazz scene—a period when Afro-Cuban rhythm, boogaloo, and jazz improvisation merged in the city’s barrios and clubs. Bronx-born timbalero Bobby Matos, then still in his twenties, led a group of young Puerto Rican and Cuban musicians who embodied the multicultural vibrancy of the era. The album captures that convergence: raw percussion energy, bilingual vocals, and horn arrangements that balance jazz sophistication with street-corner urgency.
This 2025 Mr Bongo reissue restores a lost gem of the Nuyorican canon, long sought after by collectors for its deep groove and spiritual edge. Tracks like “Nadie Baila Como Yo” bridge mambo lineage and post-bop freedom, revealing a leader already fluent in both discipline and improvisation. More than a reissue, My Latin Soul reasserts Matos’ place among the innovators who made Latin jazz not just a hybrid form, but a self-contained language of rhythm and pride.

Provided to YouTube by Mr BongoNadie Baila Como Yo · Bobby Matos And The Combo ConquistadoresMy Latin Soul℗ Mr BongoReleased on: 2025-09-26Composer: Bobby Ma...

10/17/2025

Cheikh Lo - (2025) Maame (Senegal) - World Circuit Records
Veteran Senegalese singer, guitarist, and percussionist Cheikh Lô returns with Maame, his first studio album in several years and a reaffirmation of his unique blend of mbalax, Afro-Cuban rhythm, and spiritual reflection. A disciple of both Baye Fall Sufism and pan-African musical dialogue, Lô has long bridged the sound of Dakar with Havana and Ouagadougou, shaping a cosmopolitan West African groove marked by his feather-light tenor and supple guitar phrasing.
Released by World Circuit, Maame feels at once intimate and celebratory — layered percussion, talking drum, and horn arrangements encircle Lô’s voice in fluid, syncopated motion. Themes of faith, humility, and endurance run throughout, carried by the rhythmic grace that has always defined his music. It’s a luminous return from one of Senegal’s most thoughtful modern griots, reaffirming that spirituality and swing can coexist in perfect balance.

Order/Stream 'Maame' Now - https://CheikhLo.lnk.to/MaameIDAfter a decade-long wait since his last studio album, Senegalese legend Cheikh Lô makes a powerful ...

10/17/2025

Christone "KINGFISH" Ingram - (2025) Hard Road - Red Zero Records
Mississippi guitarist and vocalist Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has quickly become one of the defining figures of 21st-century electric blues, carrying forward the Clarksdale lineage with authority and emotional range. His playing blends the clarity of B.B. King and the fire of Buddy Guy with a personal lyricism that turns every solo into a story. On Hard Road, his third studio album, Kingfish continues to refine his sound while broadening his songwriting beyond youthful virtuosity.
Released by Red Zero Records, the album balances tough modern production with raw blues feeling — biting guitar tones, muscular rhythm sections, and confessional lyrics rooted in perseverance. Tracks move from swampy shuffles to spacious ballads, reflecting both the physical and emotional “hard road” of his journey. Ingram’s voice carries weight equal to his guitar now, and the result is a record that honours Delta tradition while asserting his status as the blues’ present and future.

Blues powerhouse Christone "Kingfish" Ingram mesmerizes the crowd with his soulful performance of “Voodoo Charm” at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on Au...

10/17/2025

Cochemea - (2025) Vol III; Ancestros Futuros - Daptone Records
New York saxophonist and composer Cochemea Gastelum continues his journey into the spiritual and ancestral roots of Afro-Indigenous music with Vol. III: Ancestros Futuros. Of Yaqui and Mescalero Apache descent, Cochemea has carved a distinct space within the Daptone family — blending the label’s deep-soul aesthetic with meditative ritual, polyrhythmic percussion, and modal improvisation. This third volume completes a trilogy begun with All My Relations (2019) and Vol. II: Baca Sewa (2023), both grounded in communal rhythm and memory.
On Ancestros Futuros, Cochemea expands the palette with layered saxophone choirs, hand drums, and electric bass that evoke trance and ceremony more than groove. Recorded with members of the Daptone ensemble, the album balances spiritual jazz’s open form with the rhythmic grounding of Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous pulse. The track “Otros Mundos” encapsulates the spirit of Ancestros Futuros through its intertwining of meditative saxophone chants and hand-drummed rhythmic cycles, expressing Cochemea’s fusion of ancestral ritual and contemporary spiritual jazz that defines the album’s sound and purpose.

Cochemea Gastelum is a sax player, composer, and arranger with three records of his own, all under the name Cochemea. These albums blend the sounds of funk, ...

10/17/2025

Dorian James Whitlow - (2025) The High Bill Blues - 7th Avenue Mirage Corp
Singer, guitarist, and songwriter Dorian James Whitlow represents a new generation of urban blues artists reshaping the form through narrative detail and understated groove. Drawing on the Chicago and Memphis traditions while writing with a modern storyteller’s ear, Whitlow’s music favours clarity over flash — songs about working lives, rent due, and the quiet endurance behind the title’s “high bill.”
The High Bill Blues, released by 7th Avenue Mirage Corp, is steeped in electric rhythm-section interplay and unhurried vocal phrasing. Touches of soul harmony, organ shimmer, and tight guitar dialogue give the record depth without losing its raw immediacy. Whitlow’s tone is direct but never hardened; it’s the sound of a contemporary bluesman balancing tradition with lived realism — music that speaks plainly, and truthfully, to the costs of getting by.

Provided to YouTube by DistroKidBlue Door, A Promise · Dorian James Whitlow · Dorian James WhitlowThe High Bill Blues℗ 7thAvenueMirage Corp.Released on: 2025...

10/17/2025

Falle Nioke - (2025) Love From The Sea - Eat Your Own Ears Recordings
Guinean singer and percussionist Falle Nioke continues to shape his own modern hybrid of West African song on Love From The Sea, his most personal release to date. Singing in Fulani, Susu, Malinké, and English, he builds bridges between his coastal Guinean heritage and the electronic textures of his adopted U.K. scene, where collaborations with artists like Ghost Culture and Alabaster DePlume have already marked him as a boundary-crossing voice.
Released by Eat Your Own Ears Recordings, Love From The Sea mixes hand drums, synth atmospheres, and call-and-response vocals into a fluid, meditative whole. The album evokes both migration and memory—music that moves between continents but remains anchored in the timbre of Nioke’s voice and the pulse of traditional rhythm.

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupMousolou · Falle NiokeLove From The Sea℗ 2025 Falle Nioke, Under Exclusive License to Eat Your Own Ears Recording...

10/17/2025

JD Allen - (2025) Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) - Savant
Tenor saxophonist JD Allen pares his sound to its emotional core on Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions), an intimate collection that foregrounds tone, breath, and patience over velocity. Known for his muscular phrasing and compact compositional style, Allen here turns inward, exploring the lyric potential of the ballad tradition. His playing reveals shades of Ben Webster and Houston Person, yet his phrasing and restraint are unmistakably his own—phrases shaped less by sentimentality than by quiet conviction.
Released by Savant Records, the album reunites Allen with a rhythm section attuned to subtle dynamic shifts: piano voicings that hover rather than comp, basslines that anchor mood, and cymbal textures that breathe rather than mark time. Recorded in warm, close-mic clarity, the set feels like a letter written in longhand—direct, personal, and deeply human. Love Letters reaffirms Allen as one of today’s few tenor players equally fluent in abstraction and vulnerability, revisiting the ballad form not as nostalgia, but as truth told slowly.

Provided to YouTube by IDOLDon't Go to Strangers · JD AllenLove Letters (The Ballad Sessions)℗ Savant Records Inc.Released on: 2025-09-26Drums: Nic CacioppoE...

10/17/2025

Juan Pablo Esmok Lew, Ana Kusmuk, Nicanor Suarez - (2025) Arante Trío (En vivo)(Portugal) – SR
The Arante Trío—pianist Juan Pablo Esmok Lew, vocalist Ana Kusmuk, and bassist Nicanor Suárez—represents a fluid meeting of South American lyricism and Iberian improvisation. Recorded live in Portugal, Arante Trío (En Vivo) captures their interplay at its most spontaneous, with songs moving seamlessly between Argentine folk, modern jazz harmony, and Portuguese saudade. The ensemble’s chemistry rests on restraint: Kusmuk’s voice carries emotional weight through phrasing rather than volume, while Lew and Suárez respond with measured, melodic understatement.
The album offers a warm, unhurried document of acoustic dialogue. The trio’s live sound retains an intimacy often lost in studio work—the subtle resonance of double bass, the air between piano chords, and the quiet audience presence deepening its sense of place. Arante Trío (En Vivo) stands as a testament to transatlantic exchange: rooted in shared musical language yet defined by the immediacy of the moment.

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesSabe Deus · Juan Pablo Esmok Lew · Ana Kusmuk · Nicanor Suarez · Idan RaichelArante Trío℗ 2025 Juan Pablo Esmok...

10/17/2025

Marcus King Band - (2025) Darling Blue - Republic Records
With Darling Blue, guitarist and vocalist Marcus King continues his evolution from Southern blues prodigy to mature songwriter steeped in classic soul and rock traditions. Backed by his longtime touring band, King fuses his Greenville, South Carolina roots with a cosmopolitan sound—gritty guitar leads, horn-driven arrangements, and gospel-tinged harmonies that evoke the deep-soul storytelling of the American South. His vocals, once all fire and grit, now carry a more controlled ache, balancing raw emotion with clarity of phrasing.
Released on Republic Records, the album is both personal and panoramic: heartbreak, redemption, and perseverance unfold across songs that nod to vintage Muscle Shoals grooves and 1970s rhythm-and-blues. King’s playing remains commanding yet measured, his tone thick with southern humidity. Darling Blue reinforces his status not only as a gifted guitarist but as one of the strongest contemporary voices in roots-based American music—a bridge between blues heritage and modern soul introspection.

Stream or download “Heartlands” here: https://marcusking.lnk.to/heartlandsPre-order the new album ‘Darling Blue’ out 9/26: https://marcusking.lnk.to/darlingb...

10/17/2025

Mud Morganfield - (2025) Deep Mud - Nola Blue Records
Mud Morganfield, eldest son of blues icon Muddy Waters, carries forward his father’s legacy with Deep Mud, a record that embraces lineage without leaning on imitation. A Chicago-born singer and bassist, Morganfield has long refined his own sound—rooted in the electric blues tradition but shaped by a more conversational phrasing and contemporary sensibility. His voice retains the baritone grit and phrasing that evoke the Chess Records era, yet here he delivers with greater nuance and emotional patience, letting the stories breathe.
Released by Nola Blue Records, Deep Mud finds Morganfield backed by a crack studio band that grooves with understated precision—fat basslines, stinging guitar leads, and warm Hammond swells. The production honours classic Chicago tones while avoiding nostalgia, grounding songs in present-day experience. With writing that touches on endurance, pride, and kinship, Deep Mud reaffirms Mud Morganfield as not merely a bearer of heritage, but a mature artist extending the vocabulary of the blues with both reverence and self-assurance.

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesStrange Woman · Mud Morganfield · McKinley Morganfield · Ralph BassDeep Mud℗ 2025 Mud MorganfieldReleased on: 2...

10/17/2025

Mulatu Astatke - (2025) Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Ethiopia) – Strut Records
Now in his eighties, Ethiopian vibraphonist, arranger, and composer Mulatu Astatke—widely regarded as the father of Ethio-jazz—returns with Mulatu Plays Mulatu, an album that both reflects and renews his lifelong synthesis of modal jazz, traditional Ethiopian melody, and Afro-Latin rhythm. Recorded in Addis Ababa and London, the project unites younger musicians from the city’s evolving jazz scene with international collaborators, revisiting classic themes such as “Yèkèrmo Sèw” and “Netsanet” through expanded arrangements and subtle harmonic reshaping.
Released on Strut Records, the album balances memory and invention: Astatke’s signature pentatonic horn voicings and percussive vibraphone textures now framed within modern, high-fidelity production. The interplay between vintage instrumentation and contemporary tonal space gives these compositions renewed vitality, reminding listeners how deeply his work has influenced global jazz and hip-hop alike. Mulatu Plays Mulatu stands as both reflection and testament—a master restating his musical philosophy with serene authority.

The new album from Mulatu Astatke. 'Mulatu Plays Mulatu' is out now: https://strut.lnk.to/MulatuPlaysMulatuFollow Mulatu Astake and sign up to the mailing li...

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