Chip Wickham. Love & Life.

“Life is nothing without love. Love is the force that drives our journey in life. Life is love and love is life.”

UK jazz master Chip Wickham follows last year’s brilliant soulful long-player Cloud 10 with a deftly crafted, reflective EP of beautiful spiritual jazz influenced by the soulful sounds of Yusef Lateef. Chip’s music has always drawn on a broad world of influences: from hip-hop to Roland Kirk, and from classic funk to the ‘60s Brit-Jazz of Tubby Hayes. But Love & Life finds him foregrounding his wonderful flute playing, producing a perfect four-tracker of reflective, peaceful jazz that elevates and inspires as well as a trademark slice of boppish soul jazz – the jaunty Space Walk.

Elsewhere lead single Love & Life is a joyous jazz waltz with an uplifting, bouncing groove and Slow Down Look Around is introspective and intimate, featuring Chip’s signature flute with a beautiful solo from UK trumpeter Malcolm Strachan. Chip explains that the track presents “a big lesson for us to learn as the world changes around us with such speed. The technology changes but our human needs remain the same: peace, tranquility and time to think.”

A1 Space Walk

Vibraphone – Ton Risco

A2 Love & Life

Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Eoin Grace

B1 Seven Worlds

Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Eoin Grace

B2 Slow Down Look Around

Trumpet – Malcolm Strachan

Recorded At – Estudio Brazil

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Gondwana Records

Copyright © – Gondwana Records

Double Bass – Simon 'Sneaky' Houghton*

Drums – Jon Scott (8)

Flute, Alto Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Producer, Mixed By, Arranged By, Written-By – Chip Wickham*

Lacquer Cut By – Andreas Kauffelt

Mastered By – Peter Beckmann

Piano – Phil Wilkinson

Recorded By – Javier Ortiz (4)

Recorded By [Assisted By] – Jose Maseda

Made in the EU.

Download code included.