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Meet: Beautiful Music Makers Tenderhost

Tenderhost is a new six-piece jazz-rock band, formed under the leadership of Gabriel Levy who had previously gained prominence as the lead in the now-defunct: Sistertalk. After delivering an impressive debut EP…

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Meet: Jazz Singer And Band Leader Leon Garner

Fronting the much sought after London-based jazz band The Leon Garner Trio, Leon Garner is making huge waves in the jazz circles of the world. We at Backseat Mafia thought…

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Meet: Irish songstress Liv Monaghan releases her nod to vintage Paris with ‘Chez Serge’

Lara Eidi , January 17, 2021 Irish born , internationally travelled songstress Liv Monaghan is an artist we identify with . Like her biggest inspiration, Joni MItchell, she set off…

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Meet: Gregory Porter ahead of his album release ‘All Rise’

As you know at Back Seat Mafia we feature music of quality and distinction, well known and unknown, anything that has integrity…no pretenders. So when the chance came up to…

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Meet: We interview Gogo Penguin’s Chris Illingworth ahead of their self-titled album release

Here at Backseat Mafia, we caught up (socially distancing of course!) with GoGo Penguin member, Pianist Chris Illingworth. Talking about their new self-titled album set to be released in June,…

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Meet: Hackney Colliery Band, ahead of their Collaborations Volume One album release

They’ve achieved an awful lot already, have the Hackney Colliery Band, but it looks like the release of their new album – Collaborations Volume One, out June 7th will take…

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Meet: Mercury Nominees GoGo Penguin interview

Its been quite a few weeks for Manchester Jazz Trio GoGo Penguin. Fired skywards by their recent Mercury Barclaycard Album of the Year nomination, they followed it up with a…

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Meet: Zara McFarlane

“I was at a point where I hadn’t tried to do my own thing. I had lots of plans but I hadn’t really given it a try yet, to be…

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