Artist: Nicola Conte
Album: Umoja
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 01:01:16
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 759 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Nicola Conte – Arise (04:25)
1-2. Nicola Conte – Dance Of Love And Peace (Part 1) (03:57)
1-3. Nicola Conte – Life Forces (05:54)
1-4. Nicola Conte – Flying Circles (05:42)
1-5. Nicola Conte – Freedom & Progress (08:12)
1-6. Nicola Conte – Soul Of The People (05:10)
1-7. Nicola Conte – Heritage (05:09)
1-8. Nicola Conte – Into The Light Of Love (04:13)
1-9. Nicola Conte – Umoja Unity (06:55)
1-10. Nicola Conte – Dance Of Love & Peace (Part. 2) (02:56)
1-11. Nicola Conte – Arise (Instrumental) (04:25)
1-12. Nicola Conte – Into The Light Of Love (Instrumental) (04:14)

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Nicola Conte continues on his journey from acid-jazz bohemian to spiritual-jazz sophisticate with this immaculately hip album, fronted on half of its tracks by London-based soul-jazz divas Zara McFarlane and Bridgette Amofah.

Conte began his trajectory with the acid-jazz template Jet Sounds (Schema, 2000), boosted it with Jet Sounds Revisited (Schema, 2002) and, after a brief post-hard-bop detour with Other Directions (Blue Note, 2004), began the spiritual-jazz ascent which has in 2023 reached its new, lofty apogee with Umoja. At all stages, Conte’s role has been less that of an instrumentalist and more concerned with composing, arranging, selecting the musicians and producing the sessions.