Tony Allen - "Don't Believe The Dancers" (Mophono remix)
Midnight Hour - "Phoenix" (Theon Cross remix)
Katalyst - "Reflections" (Bei Ru remix)
Jean Carne - "Love Brings Happiness" (Melanie Charles remix)
Henry Franklin - "Black Rainbow" (Shabaka Hutchins remix)
Lonnie Liston Smith - "African Sun" (feat Kaidi Tatham - Tall Black Guy remix)
Garrett Saracho - "Altitude" (LO & Diisko remix)
Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison - "Running With The Tribe" (DJ Nyack remix)
Review: To mark the 20th instalment in their popular and ongoing series of collaborative albums, Jazz Is Dead, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad have decided to serve up fresh remixes of cuts from the series' bulging back catalogue. Given the series love of fusing jazz's past and present, it's a concept that makes perfect sense. The resultant rubs are uniformly inspired, too, with our picks of a very strong bunch including Shabaka Hutchings' fantastic revision of Henry Franklin hook-up 'African Sun', Mophono's psychedelic, dancefloor-ready tweak of Tony Allen collaboration 'Don't Believe The Dancers' (which comes complete with heavy drums and hazy, Fela-esque horns), Theon Cross's drum & bass style re-imagining of 'Phoenix' (featuring the Midnight Hour), and Bei Ru's duty, head-nodding hip-hop interpretation of Katalyst collab 'Reflections'.
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