Gary Bartz Meets London's Your Brother's Keeper

Gary Bartz and London ensemble Your Brother's Keeper have announced Where Rivers Meet, a collaborative studio album set for release on June 19, 2026 via Brownswood Recordings. The first single, "Cauldron," is out now.

The collaboration began in 2019, when Gilles Peterson brought the musicians together for performances at the inaugural We Out Here Festival and Royal Festival Hall, followed by a direct-to-disc session for Night Dreamer Records. For this album, the group built on earlier improvisations, with material remaining open and malleable—grooves, textures, and structures gradually surfacing through instinct and interaction rather than predefined form.

Your Brother's Keeper is a collective assembled by Jake Long, featuring Al MacSween, Axel Kaner-Lidstrom, Twm Dylan, Tim Doyle and Chelsea Carmichael. The record bridges Bartz's five-decade lineage—from his NTU Troop work through stints with Mingus and Miles Davis—with the exploratory energy of London's current jazz scene.

Where Rivers Meet arrives June 19, 2026.