Maybe lighter on hip hop based on what I'm seeing but a really good week to dip into some jazz-ish/improvisational music:

* Henry Franklin/Younge/Shaheed Muhammad - JID014 (of the Jazz Is Dead series)

* Terri Lyne Carrington - New Standards Vol. I (with star-studded band members and features including Julian Lage, Ambrose Akinmusire, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton, Kris Davis, Ravi Coltrane, Elena Pinderhughes, many more)

* Julian Lage - View With a Room (w/Bill Frisell)

* Butcher Brown - Presents Triple Trey

* Braxton Cook - Black Mona Lisa

* Samara Joy - Linger Awhile (debut from an up-and-coming vocalist on Verve)

Plus short releases from Blood Orange, Little Dragon, and Iron & Wine

What's everyone checking for? What's been in rotation this week?

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~