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EP Review: Rich Meehan Trio – Suite Antinque

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Album review: Black Flower – ‘Magma’: a perfumed souk of North African psych jazz from the Lowlands quintet

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Album review: Claude Cooper – ‘Myriad Sounds’: taut, essential Bristol jazz breaks and cinematic LSD groove

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Thievery Corporation

Thievery Corporation are back with their new track, “Let the Chalice Blaze”.  After 20 years, you may be familiar with the sophisticated shuffling bossa nova beats, but it’s still impossible to resist the head nodding on a Thievery Co track, especially when the cowbell kicks in. With the new album recorded in Jamaica, it’s reggae …

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Man In Space With Sounds from Art Mineo

“Straight into the heart of the future!” boasts the narration for the latest LP re-issue of Man In Space With Sounds from Attilio “Art” Mineo, on the opening track “Welcome To Tomorrow”.  Now back on vinyl, it’s probably the most famous and collectible theme park soundtrack. The 12 tracks here were originally written as library …

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New York’s A Tree Grows have streamed Wau Wau Water, the first single from the bands debut self-titled EP. An album, through Rufftone records, is also on the way sometime next year. Blending together elements of afrobeat, rock and experimental music, while retaining at its core Jazz, the band features some of the most talented …

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Ahead of a run of three UK dates, in Southampton, London and Oxford comes a new single from one of the UK’s finest jazz exponents the Neil Cowley Trio, for their track Weightless. It’s taken from their recent, acclaimed ‘Spacebound Apes’ album, a concept record telling the story of space traveller ‘Lincoln’. The single is …

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Hot on the heels of winning his first grammy for his contribution to Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ album, Thundercat has released a new single via Flying Lotus’ brilliant Brainfeeder imprint. It’s his first new music since 2015’s ‘The Beyond… Where the Giants Roam’, and features Thundercat himself on vocals and bass, joined by …

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Possessing one of the most instantly recognisable voices in music, Macy Gray has veered into unfamiliar waters for her upcoming ‘Stripped’ album, out on September 9th via Chesky Records. Bringing in some of the best jazz sidemen money can buy in drummer Ari Hoenig (Joshua Redman), trumpeter Wallace Roney (Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis), guitarist Russell …

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David Bowie, Keith Richards and Joe Strummer were just a few of the big names to frequent Londons Hotspot club of the 80’s ‘The WAG’,  a ‘haven for misfits’ that would attract such a following it would fill the floors seven nights a week with its various themed nights. Over the years The Wag would host a multitude …

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Out now is Stories & Rhymes, the debut EP from London based (via the lake district and Wales) singer songwriter Jasmine Power. Already her Jazz stylings have attracted the interest of the likes of Gilles Peterson, and on the evidence of the record, the increasing hype is totally justified. Comparisons inevitably can be drawn to …

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Chloe Leone

Chloe Leone is an up and coming songstress from Birmingham, now residing in London and making her first steps into the world of music. She has released her debut EP, the wonderfully cool and entrancing “Domesticated” which features four full tracks and two shorter skits which all showcase her terrific vocals and modern, engaging style. …

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In 1968 a British psychological horror film called ‘Twisted Nerve’ starring Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills and Billie Whitelaw was released. Although now long forgotten, only to be referenced now and again by film critics of the obscure, it does have one positive, the soundtrack. Regarded as one of on’s finest works it was plucked from obscurity …

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