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Billy Jenkins: Jazz Gives Me The Blues
by Chris May
Billy JenkinsJazz Gives Me The BluesVOTP Records2011 If the title Jazz Gives Me The Blues suggests that London guitarist/vocalist Billy Jenkins is hacked off with jazz, you would be right. Kind of. What Jenkins objects to is the gentrification and institutionalization of jazz, once--a quantum leap from ...
I Am A Man From Lewisham
Label: VOTP
Released: 2010
Track listing: I Am A Man From Lewisham; On (Catford) Broadway; Francis Drake Bowls Club; Deptford Market; Church Of The Ford Transit Mini Bus; Terraced Fast Food; Clock Tower Of Power; Throw Them Blues In The Recycling Bin.
Billy Jenkins: I Am A Man From Lewisham
by Chris May
It's hard not to warm to a bandleader who once took a party of jazz musicians along to a motorcycle race meeting so that they could get the “risk" of improvising into perspective. That's London guitarist Billy Jenkins: an instinctive enemy of pretension and convention wherever he encounters them--a licensed celebrant of humanist funerals, chess punk, ...
