Moor Mother explores free jazz and poetry on new album

Alongside elements of blues, soul, and hip-hop.

Moor Mother is releasing a new album, called Jazz Codes, via Anti- this July.

The record is inspired by the poetry book of the same name, which includes dedications to jazz and blues musicians including Woody Shaw, Amina Claudine Myers, and Mary Lou William.

Across Jazz Codes’ 18 tracks Moor Mother touches on elements of poetry, free jazz, blues, soul, and hip-hop.

The album also features contributions from artists including Irreversible Entanglements, Mary Lattimore, Jason Moran, Yung Morpheus, Justmadnice, Orion Sun and more.

It follows Moor Mother’s last solo album, Black Encyclopedia of the Air.

Pre-order Jazz Codeshere in advance of its 1st July release; check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

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) 01:51

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)