Ash Walker

Ash Walker: Astronaught

by Chris May
July 17, 2023

London DJ Ash Walker came to attention in 2019 with Aquamarine (Night Time Stories), a butterlicious mix of jazz, blues, soul, funk and dub reggae that was beyond categorisation. Astronaught is the follow-up, cut from the same cloth. Like its predecessor, it is by no stretch of the imagination a “jazz" album, however catholic one's understanding of the word. Jazz is but one of the ingredients, and a minor one, and jazz musicians are outnumbered among the ...