If Music presents You Need This!: “World Jazz Grooves Volume 2” Compiled by Jean-Claude & Victor Kiswell (CD)

The treasure troves that BBE and If Music cook up continues to amaze us. The World Jazz Grooves series, curated by veteran diggers Jean-Claude and Victor Kiswell, is again in full force; with Volume 2 compiling rare finds from flea markets, second-hand shops, and private collections. This set drifts between the sounds of France, Denmark, Brazil, the US, Jamaica and everything in-between, to put it simply - You Need This! - Flying Out 

The collaboration between BBE Music and If Music continues with another excellent compilation in the ongoing If Music Presents series with this 2nd volume in the World Jazz Grooves chapter.

Alongside the A Journey Into Deep Jazz albums in the catalogue, World Jazz Grooves Volume 2 explores the global diversity of Jazz in its many forms, as interpreted throughout the globe, with tracks from Denmark, France, Brazil, Canada, the USA and Jamaica. The tracklist includes Rosa Mae from Mary Lou Williams, one of the artists in the legendary A Great Day in Harlem photograph and Dakar, a 16 minute opus of a track by Dadje.

With the music sought, sorted and selected by legendary diggers and selectors Jean- Claude and Victor Kiswell World Jazz Volume 2 is also the opportunity to own music that has been painstakingly searched for in flea markets, second hand shops and private collections and would not be available otherwise.

Jean-Claude’s excellent track record of creating and curating compilation albums and rediscovering rare gems and private presses for re-issue follows a philosophy of cross- genre music appreciation.

He has been a mainstay of London’s Black Music scene for some four decades with his record shop, his shows on NTS and Soho Radio, his excellent ‘In Conversation with...’ series of chat shows, his Djing and curation of event stages at We Out Here and Cross the Tracks and, of course, his excellent compilations.

Paris based Victor Kiswell is also a somewhat of a savant in the world of vinyl hunting and discernment with parallel careers as a journalist writing for vinyl bazaar, art director for Radioooo.com, DJ and broadcaster on various stations throughout Europe. Victor's travels around the world, on his vinyl quests, are well documented in his articles in Vinyl Bazaar and he describes himself as an 'adventurer', an 'archaeologist' and someone who enjoys the element of his vinyl hunting where he finds himself going where chance takes him.

Yes, with these two music heads and vinyl hunting experts unearthing the seven absolute gems on this double vinyl offering, If Music presents: World Jazz Grooves Volume 2 really is something you need in your life and in your vinyl rack.

Tracklist:

1. Sylvain Kassap - Marlowe's Back in Tome
2. Mary Lou Williams - Rosa Mae
3. Gerardo Bátiz - Aguamarina (a Elis Regina) 
4. Cedric Brooks and The Divine Light - Third World (Afro Beat)
5. Kahil El'Zabar - Song for a New South Africa
6. John Tchicai, Strange Brothers - I En Kælder
7. Colin Wilkie, Shirley Hart, Albert Mangelsdorff, Joki Freund - Ich armes Maidlein klag mich sehr
8. Dadje - Dakar