Bugge Wesseltoft: OK World

"New jazz" pioneer Bugge Wesseltoft has always been about the grooves. His breakthrough recordings for his own Jazzland label in the late 1990s – dubbed the "new conception of jazz" – put the Norwegian electronics guru in the vanguard of jazz musicians blending improv with sequenced dance grooves. But as he has matured, Wesseltoft has been drawn to the more organic sound of living drummers. His new group is a multinational conglomerate of percussionists, guitarists and singers from India, Spain, Lebanon and Mozambique. The dizzying confection of drums and drummers from three different continents create pulsating carpets of rhythm, over which the leader scatters his romantic, Jarrett-tinged piano lines. If you feel your hips start to sway, don't blame it on the sunshine. gubemusic.com