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It can't have escaped your notice that BBE Music are celebrating thier 30th Anniversary and as a label the have produced numerous compilations with records from the past, these releases shed light on what's happening today: and with that in mind, DJ, Dancer, Compiler, jazz aficionado Perry Louis has put together 12 tracks to celebrate 25 years of his jazz-dance teachings and club events.
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Of course, if you've been to one of Perry's Shiftless Shuffle sessions, read no more - go straight to the Buy Link below and get your orders in as you'll need the 10 minutes of 'El Mondongo' salsa (by Los Corraleros de Majaual) which is a 'Vinyl Only' track.
And that's where this Shiftless Shuffle experience is at it's best - hot, sweatly, Latin, percussion heavy, cuíca, cowbell, jazz dance and it's Worldwide! Not surprising 'Shiftless Shuffle' guest DJs have included Gilles 'Worldwide & Dingwalls' Peterson, Paul 'Jazz Room' Murphy, Colin 'The Original' Parnell on numerous occassions and the recent London Party gig had Nicola Conte (most recently seen as 'Tempa Duo - see review HERE) sharing DJ duties with DJ Lorne 'Not For The Faint Hearted' Daley!
"Not for the faint hearted" is what this release and ethos is all about, taking it's name from Herbie Hancock track (from the album 'Mr Hands') these jazz heads gig deeper funkier, groovier, jazz that loves a drum solo (Pierre-Louis Garcia's 'Tipazz') and is manic 100 mph - like British saxophonist Dave O'Higgins and his 'Samba Express'. That's over 20 years old and whilst he might have slowed down a bit since, he's been in Darius Brubeck Quartet for many a year (as recently played on Gerry Hectic's recent ALL.FM show - see HERE) and loads of other bands, get anything with his name on it.
So how do you get into this 'jazzdance'? Well 'samba' is grounding and the album kicks off with an exclusive by Kyoto Jazz Massive, 'Get It Together' (Samba Fusion Mix) and there's a stong Japanese connection to the scene via the likes of Tony Higgins/Mike Peden (BBE J-Jazz Series - see review HERE) at one extreme and Nik 'Mukatsuku' Weston at another.
And taking all things Jazz-dance, Mr Parnell played the KJM track on his most recent and most excellent Stomp Radio show and he also let lose the Bunny Brunel's version of Chick Corea's composition, 'Fickle Funk' which is a monster and appears on vinyl for the first time (after being original released in CD only times). If you know Corea's verion on the 'Secret Agent' album, Brunel was on bass and this version is longer and better than the original. Little wonder Parnell says that BBE pre-orders are flying out the door!
Back in 2022, DJ Bob Hill introduced us to Italy's A.MA Editions label via Enrico Bracco
'Flying In A Box' (see review HERE) album but a year before that, Uglijesa Novakovic released 'Don't Slam the F... Door' (from the album 'Reflections' on CD/Digital on A.MA) so this is probably another first time on vinyl track. A little slower and more Latin is Jen Kearney's 'Warm Bath Eyes' - that's a bit Snowboy styled, but what a great title.
That Snowboy (aka Mark Cotgrove - last seen HERE with Dele Sosimi) is another Shifless Shufffle regular and you might be surprised to see Colonel Red on the tracklist (as in 'Holders Of The Sun' - see review HERE) and you'd be very hard pressed to find the Japanese release of Nation Of Multivere (there had to be more than one )track that came of the J-Jazzland of the rising sun!
Did someone say, "Where's Flora Purim?", well we know she's on Balaphoni's new album 'Organic Matters' (see review HERE) but here's Chick Corea's 'Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly' that you might know as a Purim track but this time it's Eileen Howard's version. And don't forget the be-bop/skat vocals! Norbert Gottschalk & Matthias Broede ('Samba Picante') is just mad and breathless jazz and like 99% of this compilation, you'd have no clue about if you're just digging in your non-specialit record shop.
The album ends on another 100mph track as Pierre-Louis Garcia gives us some sax gymnnastics on 'Tipaza' (from 1984 album, 'Die Grupen') with cool drum solo whilst Tom Grant's version of 'Caribbean Fire Dance' is perhaps the essence of what the compilation is all about?
All tracks are very 'Perry' and this release follows the recent re-issued Soul-Jazz compilation 'London Jazz Classics' that they waited 30 years to do. So expect jazz-dance to be the thing this year and it won't be a surprise that 'Shiftless Shuffle' sells out fast so don't hang about as you don't wan't to miss out and then have to wait 30 years for a re-press!
PS. All that remains of 2005 - Flyglobal Music Posting:
Featuring a rare meeting of the UK’s biggest jazz DJs including Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 1, Worldwide)
Paul Murphy (Electric Ballroom / Afro Art Records) + resident DJ Perry Louis (Jazzcotech/Messin Around)
BUY LINK / PRE-ORDER: DJ Perry Louis (JazzCotech) presents Shiftless Shuffle | BBE
Artist: Various Artists
Title: DJ Perry Louis (JazzCotech) presents Shiftless Shuffle
Release date: 14th August, 2026
Label : BBE Music
Catalog Number : BBE - TBC
Format: 2 x LP / Digital / Bandcamp
