StLJN jazz site of the week: Kosmigroov Konnection

The StLJN jazz site of the week is Kosmigroov Konnection, a site that pays tribute to a sound it defines as "a transgressive improvisational music which combines elements of psychedelia, spirituality, jazz, rock, soul, funk, and African, Latin, Brazilian, Indian and Asian influences culminating into an all encompassing cosmic groove."

Like last week's featured site Ear of the Behearer, Kosmigroov Konnection is mostly a place to list, analyze and discuss recordings, and, as with Behearer, music made during the 1970s and early 1980s gets serious attention and reconsideration.

As you might expect, the electric music of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report and the avant-garde "arkestra" of Sun Ra figure prominently in the kosmigroov canon. However, the site also includes many older and newer recordings that somehow relate to the governing aesthetic, and stretches the definition far enough to include music by artists ranging from Cannonball Adderley to Frank Zappa.

Still, it all seems to hang together somehow, and though the site is showing its age a bit - it originally was created back in 1997 - Kosmigroov Konnection provides an interesting perspective that encourages thoughtful consideration, discussion, and further exploration of the music it documents.