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Emma-Jean Thackray
Emma-Jean Thackray is an award winning composer, producer, arranger, instrumentalist, singer and as a recent RBMA alumni, has been described by RBMA as "one of the UK's most exciting new jazz artists", as “somewhere between Madlib and Ornette Coleman” by Djam La Revue, “one to watch” by the London Evening Standard and as “supremely talented... the sound of South London” by Sounds Of The Universe. Having trained at top UK conservatories in both jazz and composition she is pretty fucking good at loads of stuff, with acclaimed work as a producer, as a composer for large ensembles, as an arranger, a musical director, an educator, a solo performer and as a band leader with her quartet WALRUS.
Jon Batiste, Randy Newman, Hedvig Mollestad, Emma-Jean Thackray
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy a playlist of standout new jazz releases from off the beaten path, with a special focus on late-night band heroes Lenny Pickett, Ron Blake, and Jon Batiste in a one-of-a-kind collaboration with Randy Newman. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Ron ...
Billy Parker's Fourth World, Daylight Robbery, Jimi Tenor, Kaidi Tatham, Jazzanova, Andy Hay, & More
by Tony Poole
A weekly dive into the latest new releases, join Tony Poole as he brings you the freshest jazz grooves from around the world. Playlist Billy Parker's Fourth World “Get With It (featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater)" from The Legacy Begins, originally 1973 (Strata-East) Daylight Robbery with Nick Marks “God Game" from Third Island Suite (Melting ...
Winter JazzFest 2025: The Out-of-Towners - Part 1
by Ludovico Granvassu
This week we focus on the upcoming edition of Winter JazzFest. As usual, it will bring to Manhattan and Brooklyn its annual extravaganza that this year will consist of a gargantuan program with more than 100 concerts and north of 500 musicians. Here is a playlist that features musicians coming to the festival from abroad, or ...
Alexander Flood, Caixa Cabo, Butcher Brown, Emma-Jean Thackray, And More
by Tony Poole
Tony Poole plays a selection from the Jazz First Chart. The music is generally an indicator to what British jazz DJs typically play at their club nights and on their radio shows. It incorporates several sub-genres of up-tempo jazz and world music including Afro-Cuban jazz, Brazilian jazz, hard bop, nu-jazz, jazz house, broken beat, funk fusion, ...
Pori Jazz 2022
by Rob Garratt
Pori Jazz 2022 Kirjurinluoto Concert Park Pori, Finland July 14-16, 2022 If this year's 55th annual Pori Jazz festival had a “moment," it was when Immanuel Wilkins invited Shabaka Hutchings to the stage as a surprise guest for a dazzling 14-minute duet that capped the former's spellbinding set, ...
Amaro Freitas, Emma-Jean Thackray, Club D'Elf, Jowee Omicil and More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
2022 has arrived, and from a jazz perspective, it came right after a truly spectacular year in terms of the quality and quantity of jazz albums that were released... so the pressure is on! Mondo Jazz's New Year resolution remains the same: keep searching for the most exciting, left of center, fresh, possibly under-exposed, certainly deserving ...
Yellow
Label: Movementt Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Mercury; Say Something; About That; Venus; Green Funk; Third Eye; May There Be Peace; Sun; Golden
Green; Spectre; Rahu & Ketu; Yellow; Our People; Mercury (In Retrograde)
Ludovico Granvassu's 2021 Sonic Delights
by Ludovico Granvassu
Jazz is not a competitive sport and “Best Ofs" are misnomers. End of the year listicles have no bearing on the artistic standing of the albums they include, or on those they neglect, just like a five star review doesn't make the album it graces any better than it already is. But, apparently, humans ...
Emma-Jean Thackray: Yellow
by Jim Trageser
Many of the most prominent exponents of melding jazz with soul, funk and hip-hop have been trumpeters. Even in the late 1970s, Chuck Mangione was already taking soul-jazz and moving it further into an R&B orbit (and taking heat from jazz purists for supposedly “selling out"), and in so doing exposing lots of pop fans to ...
