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Joe Webb: Neath Beat
by Kevin Poindexter
Joe Webb's Neath Beat is the work of a fascinating artist. Obsessed with both football and Britpop, Webb fuses those passions with his love for South Wales, filtering it all through the musical vocabulary of legendary piano titans like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson and Count Basie. The result is an album that not only pays tribute to those influences but also stands as a compelling and unique artistic statement on its own. You could easily describe Webb's piano ...
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by Neil Duggan
Open to all musical genres from the UK and Ireland, encompassing pop, rock, folk, urban, dance, jazz, blues, electronica and classical, the Mercury Prize stands as music's equivalent to literature's Booker Prize or art's Turner Prize. Past winners span from Arctic Monkeys and PJ Harvey to Arlo Parks, representing the award's diverse scope. Jazz has rarely featured among Mercury Prize winners, with Ezra Collective's Where I'm Meant To Be (Partisan, 2022) marking a historic breakthrough as the first ...
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