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Dele Sosimi & Friends At Ronnie Scott's Club

by Chris May
June 15, 2023

Dele Sosimi & Friends Ronnie Scott's Club London June 11, 2023 Born in London but brought up in Lagos, keyboard player Dele Sosimi was a child prodigy who joined Fela Kuti's Egypt 80 the moment he left secondary school in 1979. Sosimi had by that time been rehearsing with Egypt ...

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Brilliant Corners 2023

by Ian Patterson
March 25, 2023

Brilliant Corners Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland 2-11 March, 2023 One of the highlights of Belfast's music calendar, Brilliant Corners' eleventh annual shindig served up thirteen concerts over nine days. As ever, the main venue was Black Box, where audiences were treated to the best of Irish, British, European and North ...

Album

Flock

By Tamar Osborn

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Expand; Prepare To Let Go; Sounds Welcome; It’s Complicated; What Purpose; Murmuration; Bold Dream; My Resonance; How Many Are One; Fully Breathed.

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Justin Thurgur: Many Faces

by Chris May
May 26, 2022

London-based trombonist Justin Thurgur is at home in several traditions. He plays contemporary English folk music with the band Bellowhead and Afrobeat with the Afrobeat Orchestra, the ensemble led by keyboard player Dele Sosimi, a childhood protégé of Fela Kuti, who has done more than any other musician to keep the Afrobeat flame alight in Britain. ...

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Flock: Flock

by Chris May
May 7, 2022

One of the strengths of the alternative jazz scene which has grown in London since around 2016 is the interconnectivity of its players. Everyone knows each other and ad hoc bands constantly come together. Flock is the latest such conclave and it is something of a supergroup. On this its first album--others are ...

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Ill Considered: Liminal Space

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by Chris May
November 9, 2021

London's semi-free trio Ill Considered makes music in much the same way as does tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd's duo, Binker and Moses--using simple rhythmelodic motifs as jumping off points for otherwise unstructured improvisation, much of it blazingly intense. Originally a quartet, Ill Considered now comprises founder members tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist ...

Album

Continuation

By Tamar Osborn

Label: On The Corner
Released: 2020
Track listing: Deep Peace; Continuation; Pause; The Angry One; Lost & Found; Pause Reprise.

Album

Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions

By Sarathy Korwar

Label: Night Dreamer
Released: 2020
Track listing: So Said Said; Flight 1C 408; Elephant Hangover; Intimate Enemy; So Said Said (Yoruba Soul Mix).

Article: Year in Review

Chris May’s Best Releases Of 2020

by Chris May
December 7, 2020

Not the best year for live gigs in London, but Dele Sosimi's Afrobeat Orchestra just made it under the wire, lighting up the Jazz Cafe in late January. Rather like Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Sosimi's band has form as an incubator of young talent. A recent star in the making was trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, who has ...

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Sarathy Korwar & Upaj Collective: Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions

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by Chris May
November 12, 2020

In her October 2020 interview with All About Jazz, baritone saxophonist, Collocutor bandleader, Afrobeat shaman and Upaj Collective founder member Tamar Osborn was asked to name six of her all-time favourite albums. One of them was Shakti's Natural Elements (Columbia, 1970), on which John McLaughlin plays a guitar customised to sound like a sitar. “To me, ...