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New Music: Nostalgia 77 & The Monster – Measures / Island in the Sun

Out right now via the consistently brilliant Tru Thoughts is the new digital single from Ben Lamdins crew of jazz warriors and producers, aka Nostalgia 77. Measures / Island In…

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Album Review: Troyka – Ornithophobia

Ornithophobia is the third album from experimental jazz trio, Troyka. Following on from their last recording, Live at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, which showed they could adapt their wilful experimentalism to…

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New Music: Melanie De Biasio – I feel you (Eels Remix)

Taking Mark Hollis as inspiration is one thing, producing an album of the quality of No Deal is quite another, wearing its jazz influences proudly on its sleeve, stripped back…

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See: Flying Lotus releases new video for Never Catch Me feat. Kendrick Lamar

It would be fair to say that Kendrick Lamar’s new single ‘i’ has been controversial, with many seeing it as Kendrick’s play for the radio. That the Kendrick featuring ‘Never…

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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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Just Lions – Great. OK

I’m worried about Chandler, and not for the first time. Before it was The Bing Man: increasingly strung out, sweaty, scrawny and unable to convince us that there was any…

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Album Review: Taylor McFerrin – Early Riser

Lets get this straight right from the off. Taylor McFerrins debut LP Early Riser is one of the albums of the year, and the fact that its taken this long…

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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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News: Ronny Jordan, pioneer of Acid Jazz, dies at 52

I always had this thing about Jazz, but the record that really opened the door for me, was Jazzmatazz Vol. 1. Former Gang Starr mainstay Guru released the album, essentially…

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Track: Nostalgia 77 release new single, ‘An Angel with no Halo’

I think everyone deserves a treat now and then, and with me trying to cut out biscuits and beer (not together, you understand) I’ve been saving something slightly special to…

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