NEWS: London Jazz Festival moves online – schedule updates
LIKE the music itself, the London Jazz Festival, which runs from November 13th to 22nd, just refuses to be silent. A month ago we brought you news of the ambitious…
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John Parry
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Lifelong listener and occasional commentator- further adventures can be found on instagram, tumblr and sound selection/mixtapes on: mixcloud.com/HouseAtTheFootOfTheMountain/
Album Review: Emily Kuhn – Sky Stories
New jazz… Chicago… must be another International Anthem release right? Well no, this is something from outside that powerhouse, the debut by Emily Kuhn, trumpet player out now on the…
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EP: Oscar Jerome- Breathe Deep Remixes
Although it’s been robbed of its live connection this year, the UK Nu- jazz train has kept up the momentum with a roll of dynamic and defining releases. Oscar Jerome’s…
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Album review: Ane Brun – ‘After The Great Storm’
HUMILITY, honesty and heart are three key elements of Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun’s music. With a voice that puts you within emotional touching distance plus an eye for visuals that…
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Track: Mdou Moctar release new track, ‘Chismiten’; announce new album
In more ways than one Mdou Moctar has come along way since 2008, when his raw emotional guitar music first began to spread beyond Niger across west Africa via the…
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Track: Battles release Stirling Bridge (DJ Diary & DJ Orient (Black Midi) Remix)
What makes a remix? Take the best bits of your stuff and plenty of my stuff and make it sound like ME or take the essence of mine and the…
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EP: Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes – What Kinda Music Bonus Tracks
If you got into Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes stellar album ‘What Kinda Music’ released in April this year, then here’s something to help you through the winter wilderness. Blue…
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Track: Spaza release new track ‘Xolile Mosi’ ahead of album
You know that jazz never goes away- it ebbs and flows in profile and popularity. But over the last five years or so jazz music has reached out, edged its…
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TRACK: David Lord – ‘Cloud Ear’: Chicago-style free guitar jazz teases for new LP
ON THE other side of the guitarist spectrum from the strut and stomp are the outliers, dogged explorers of the fretboard, scholars of the instrument’s sonic complexity. Derek Bailey, Fred…
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TRACKS: Actress shares two new tracks from his new album for Ninja
IF ONE artist was going to send out a press release for their new record styled on the redacted copy of a government report it is Darren Cunningham, aka Actress.…
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