Tag: Jazz
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Ezra Collective: “Where I’m Meant To Be” album review – a thumping celebration of life
out in the street, they call it Ezra As we saw the British jazz quintet of Ezra Collective take to the stage in Ronnie Scotts as a headline slot in 2017 – an occasion all in itself for those in the UK jazz scene – we knew that Ezra Collective were bringing something special. Widely […]
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Loyle Carner: “hugo” album review: at his most brutally honest
Conscientious jazz-rap is never an easy feat to excel at. The lyrical ingenuity is just as important as the butter-melt beats accompanying it… It takes a good MC to not only perfect both but to continue with consistency across three records. Our man Loyle Carner has been doing just that. It took a just under […]
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Arctic Monkeys: “The Car” album review – a lavish and stylish affair
The band replace dirty dancefloor with pensive mirrorball in seventh outing, The Car. As we hear the first taste of the band’s seventh album, The Car, with Turner’s crooning “Don’t get emotional, that ain’t like you/ Yesterday’s still leaking through the roof,” we begin to think how we managed to get here. Straight-edged four-to-the-floor rock […]
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Vertaal: Your Artist of the Week
Despite receiving the preceding playlist treatment this dynamic duo received by filtered to the back, Vertaal are deserving anything but. Simply coming together through their shared love of nu-jazz nuances and broken beat characteristics in their home town of Hertfordshire, bonded drummer Ajit Gill (right) and keyboardist Theo Howarth (left) developed an expressiveness to their […]
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january, let’s have ya: A Playlist for those Blues
We’ve almost made it. The January blues is almost over with us entering halfway through the final week of January. The forbidden fruit within the calendar year. Post-Christmas sadness with the season weather being just as unforgiving, we need a music artist to take January with a pinch of salt and to accept our fall […]
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