Jazz Codes

Limited LP : Indies Exclusive Green & Yellow Vinyl / Gold & Yellow Galaxy Vinyl

Jazz Codes uses free jazz as a starting point but the collection continues the recent turn in Moor Mother's multifaceted catalog toward more melody, more singing voices, more choruses, more complexity. In its warm, densely layered course through jazz, blues, soul, hip- hop, and other Black classical traditions, Jazz Codes sets the ear blissfully adrift and unhitches the mind from habit.

Through her work, Ayewa illuminates the principles of her multidisciplinary collaborative practice Black Quantum Futurism, a theoretical framework for perceiving and adjusting reality through art, writing, music, and performance, informed by historical Black ontologies. She has performed and recorded with the free jazz groups Irreversible Entanglements and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and made records with billy woods, Mental Jewelry, and YATTA.

1. Umzansi (Feat Black Quantum Futurism Featuring Mary Lattimore)
2. April 7th (Feat Keir Neuringer)
3. Golden Lady (Feat Melanie Charles)
4. Joe Mcphee Nation Time Intro (Feat Keir Neuringer)
5. Ode To Mary (Feat Orion Sun & Jason Moran)
6. Woody Shaw (Feat Melanie Charles)
7. Meditation Rag (Feat Aquiles Navarro & Alya Al Sultani)
8. So Sweet Amina (Feat Justmadnice & Keir Neuringer)
9. Dust Together (Feat Wolf Weston & Aquiles Navarro)
10. Rap Jasm (Feat Akai Solo & Justmadnice)
11. Blues Away (Feat Fatboi Sharif)
12. Blame (Feat Justmadnice)
13. Arms Save (Feat Nicole Mitchell)
14. Real Trill Hours (Feat Yung Morpheus)
15. Evening (Feat Wolf Weston)
16. Barely Woke (Feat Wolf Weston)
17. Noise Jism
18. Thomas Stanley Jazzcodes Outro (Feat Irreversible Entanglements & Thomas Stanley)

CD Bonus Tracks:
19. Black Honey (Feat. Loijj & Honeychile) (Bonus Track)
20. We Got The Jazz (Feat. Kyle Kidd, Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro) (Bonus Track)
21. Black Dust Blues (Feat. Elaine Mitchener) (Bonus Track)

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