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Karen Street/ Streetworks: Streetworks/ Unfurled

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
June 12, 2015

Women in British jazz, the stand-out sonically wonderful ones, you just don't hear them all too often, and finding them is like chasing unicorns. Outside of stoic jazz hoovers there are still too few mainstream listeners who suck it up these days, and that never helps. In the popular world of musical vacuum, perhaps the only answer budding jazz musicians ever hear is, “Die son." (The popular vacuum -looks good, it's clumsy, over-priced, breaks easy and does half a job). ...