Steve White Trio - Soul Drums [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.:  AJXCD888 
Barcode: 0676499088845
Release Date: 20 Mar 2026
Genre: Jazz

 Acid Jazz Records introduces the new ‘Jazz Sessions’ series with a very special album from prolific drummer Steve White in his first album as a leader, performing as the Steve White Trio.
 White is known for his long association with Paul Weller, as a member of the Style Council, playing on the hit single ‘Long Hot Summer’ and Weller’s biggest solo albums ‘Wildwood’, ‘Stanley Road’, ‘Heavy Soul’ and ‘As Is Now’.
 Alongside this, he continued to record in both jazz and soul settings, under names such as Trio Valore, The Groove Train and, of course, The Jazz Renegades - his great late 1980s Hard Bop outfit that recorded an album for Polydor, another for Acid Jazz precursor label Re-Elect The President and an EP for Acid Jazz.
 On ‘Soul Drums’, his return to Acid Jazz, White plays glorious tribute to his jazz roots and filmic influences, performing alongside longtime collaborator Chris Hague.
 The perfect album to introduce this new jazz series, with a mid-century-inspired sleeve to match. Leading with the single ‘Changes’, the album also includes a clever reworking of the Style Council’s ‘My Ever Changing Moods’. Modernists delight.

Tracklisting
Camera Obscura
Changes
My Ever Changing Moods
Something
When The Tourists Leave
Mr. B
Passing Through
Eye To Eye
Throwing A Whitey
Running
Songs For Us Dads
Cough Up