Jazz Codes is Moor Mother’s second and latest album for Anti- and a companion to her celebrated 2021 release Black Encyclopedia of the Air. Jazz Codes uses free jazz as a starting point but the collection continues the recent turn in Moor Mother’s multifaceted catalog toward more melody, more singing voices, more choruses, more complexity. In its warm, densely layered course through jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, and other Black classical traditions, Jazz Codes sets the ear blissfully adrift and unhitches the mind from habit. Through her work, Ayewa illuminates the principles of her multidisciplinary collaborative practice Black Quantum Futurism, a theoretical framework for perceiving and adjusting reality through art, writing, music, and performance, informed by historical Black ontologies.The songwriter, composer, vocalist, poet, and educator Camae Ayewa spent years organizing and performing in Philadelphia’s underground music community before moving to Los Angeles to teach composition at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. She released her debut album as Moor Mother, Fetish Bones, in 2016, and has since put out an abundance of acclaimed music, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians who share her drive to dig up the untold. She has performed and recorded with the free jazz groups Irreversible Entanglements and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and made records with billy woods, Mental Jewelry, and YATTA.

1. Umzansi (Feat. Black Quantum Futurism & Mary Lattimore)
2. April 7th (Feat. Keir Neuringer)
3. Golden Lady (Feat. Melanie Charles)
4. Joe Mcphee Nation Time Intro (Feat. Neuringer)
5. Ode to Mary (Feat. Orion Sun & Jason Moran)
6. Woody Shaw (Feat. Melanie Charles)
7. Meditation Rag (Feat. Aquiles Navarro & Alya Al Sultani)
8. So Sweet Amina (Feat. Justmadnice & Keir Neuringer)
9. Dust Together (Feat. Wolf Weston & Aquiles Navarro)
10. Rap Jasm (Feat. Akai Solo & Justmadnice)
11. Blues Away (Feat. Fatboi Sharif)
12. Blame (Feat. Justmadnice)
13. Arms Save (Feat. Nicole Mitchell)
14. Real Trill Hours (Feat. Yung Morpheus)
15. Evening (Feat. Wolf Weston)
16. Robots On Mars
17. Noise Jism
18. Thomas Stanley Jazzcodes Outro (Feat. Irreversible Entanglements & Thomas Stanley)
19. Black Honey (Feat. Loijj & Honeychile)
20. We Got the Jazz (Feat. Kyle Kidd, Keir Neuringer & Aquiles Navarro)
21. Black Dust Blues (Feat. Elaine Mitchener)