Photo: Sam Lee

Composer, poet, vocalist and educator Moor Mother, aka Camae Ayewa, has announced a digital deluxe edition of her highly acclaimed album, Jazz Codes released last summer. Slated for release on May 19th through ANTI-, the upcoming expanded version features six previously unreleased songs. One of them is the staggering ‘We Got The Jazz’ feat. Kyle Kidd, Keir Neuringer and Aquiles Navarro. “‘We Got The Jazz’ is me thinking about how mediocre a lot of popular music is, about its capitalistic structures and how those placements are bought and paid for,” Moor Mother commented. “I’m speaking about the whitewashing of who’s allowed to participate in jazz, who is allowed to participate in poetry, and asking where the room for innovation is, now and in the future. It’s also me thinking about my jazz band, Irreversible Entanglements, and how we’ve toured the world destroying stages, uplifting audiences, and inspiring everyone on the jazz scene with or without recognition. I’m also speaking about my own influence on the culture.”

‘We Got The Jazz’ is offered with a visual accompaniment and you can check it out below.