Song of the Day: Chip Wickham - Love & Life

The UK jazz master Chip Wickham new single Love & Life, from his new EP album under the same name Love & Life, via Gondwana Records.

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.

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

Listen to Chip Wickham new single Love & Life, from his new EP album under the same name Love & Life:

The 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. Technology changes but our human needs remain the same: peace, tranquillity and time to think.

Watch the below video for Chip Wickham new single Love & Life, from his new EP album under the same name Love & Life: