“Mixing jazz with hip-hop and dub production influences, the album features a band including Nubya Garcia (whosenew solo EPArmon-Jones plays on), Moses Boyd, Oscar Jerome, and Maxwell Owin…

…Starting Today follows Armon-JonesIdiomEP with Owin one of our favourite 12s of 2017, collaborations on Brownswoods stellarWe Out Herecompilation and Ezra CollectivesJuan Pablo: The PhilosopherLP.” – The Vinyl Factory

“A 100% proof blend of jazz, fusion, hip hop and dub, the album showcases Armon-Jones’s breathtaking sonic-wizardry. It also reveals him to be a composer of note. His lyrics are perhaps a tad perfunctory, but no matterhe writes great tunes and interesting arrangements. And he brings a seemingly inexhaustible bag of timbral tricks to the Wurlitzer. The band, drawn in the main from theWe Out Herefamily, is top ranking, too, with a killer rhythm section and strong frontline-contributions from Garcia and trumpeterDylan Jones. Armon-Jones is the main solo voice, however…

…Brownswood, the label formed by London club DJ and BBC Radio 6 Music broadcaster Gilles Peterson in 2006, figures large in this spring 2018 musical high-tide. Peterson’s previous label, the jazz dance and acid jazz-centric Talkin’ Loud, defined one corner of the London jazz world in the 1990s. Brownswood is doing something similar right now. It is the sort of outfit that gives monopolies a good name.” – All About Jazz

“OnStarting Today,Armon-Jones takes a modern-jazz journey from the discrete influences on that eclectic London sound to its thrillingly diverse presentand stakes his claim as one of the scenes most promising voices.” – Pitchfork

Item Description:

Artist:

Joe Armon-Jones

Title:

Starting Today

Label:

Brownswood Recordings

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album,Gatefold

Pressing:

UK

Release Date:

04 May 2018

Genre:

Electronic,Jazz,Funk / Soul

Style:

Broken Beat

Catalog No:

BWOOD0177LP

Condition:

New