Jazz Articles about Peter Jones

Zoöphyte: Galapagos

by Ian Patterson
August 22, 2023

Zoöphyte is a ten-piece pop band boasting some of London's finest jazz musicians. Its debut album, Signs Of Life (Howlin' Werewolf, 2020), was a pleasing hybrid of uber-catchy grooves, ear-bending psychedelia and sizzling jazz virtuosity. How could it be otherwise for a band that cites influences as diverse as Canterbury progressives Soft Machine and Caravan, psychedelic soulsters The Fifth Dimension, rock antiheroes Chicago and Steely Dan, and nu-jazz conceptualist Robert Glasper? One pandemic later, this genre-slippery unit delivers another slice ...