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Zara McFarlane: Arise!
by Chris May
Zara McFarlane is a London-based singer and composer with a voice like an angel and a style that reflects her cultural roots in the Caribbean and in the mash-up that is modern metropolitan Britain, where jazz, grime, hip hop, reggae and other musics of black origin are hybridising and shape-shifting with joyful abandon. She is an ...
Zara McFarlane: Embodying the Spirit of Jamaica
by David Burke
Zara McFarlane may have been made in Britain, but she belongs to Jamaica. The land of her mother and father is written in her soul and vibrates through her music. You can feel it in the bewitching rhythms and hear it in the socio-conscious words—both elements of reggae -that inform her distinctive version of jazz, especially ...
New Protest Music
by Emily Jones
Jazz has a rich history as protest music, but it seems that, over the past year or so, this message in the music has come to the fore again. This month's mix captures the current wave of protest in jazz, where every tune has a story to tell. First up is an atmospheric track ...
Arise!
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Ode To Kumina; Pride; Fussin’ And Fightin’; Peace Begins Within; Stoke The Fire; Freedom Chain; Riddim Interlude; Allies Or Enemies; In Between Worlds; Silhouette; Fisherman; Ode To Cyril.
Arise
Label:
Released: 2017
Track listing: Ode to Kumina; Pride; Fussin' and Fightin'; Peace Begins Within; Stoke the Fire;
Freedom Chain; Riddim Interlude; Allies or Enemies; In Between Worlds;
Silhouette; Fisherman; Ode to Cyril.
Zara McFarlane: Arise
by Phil Barnes
Zara McFarlane's If You Knew Her from 2014 promised much, being a wonderful, individual, mixture of jazz, reggae and soul that viewed the singer's Jamaican roots through the prism of her UK birth and London upbringing. It was an original blend that signaled the arrival of a major talent on the UK scene, setting a path ...
Montreux Jazz Festival 2016
by Ian Patterson
Montreux Jazz Festival 2016 Various Venues Montreux, Switzerland July 9-12, 2016 No matter at what point, or for how long you dipped into the Montreux Jazz Festival during the seventeen days of its 50th edition, the sense of history was palpable. Charles Lloyd was present, just as he was ...
Jasmine Power: Stories and Rhymes EP
by Phil Barnes
There's something wonderful about watching a major talent emerge blinking into the harsh spotlight of the public gaze for the first time. Of course, some find the experience so traumatic that they are never heard of again, others are unlucky finding themselves in the clutches of the unprincipled sharks that inhabit the arts every bit as ...
Christmas 2015 III: All That Jazz
by C. Michael Bailey
Barbara Dennerlein Christmas Soul MPS Records 2015 Christmas Soul is a swinging little jazz party fueled by Barbara Dennerlein's Hammond B3. Now, if the listener is expecting some Jimmy Smith smoky grease or Larry Young radioactivity, you will be disappointed. Dennerlein is known for using rare analog effects ...
If You Knew Her
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Open Heart; Her Eyes; Move; You’ll Get Me In Trouble; Police & Thieves;
Spinning Wheel; Plain Gold Ring; Angie La La; The Games We Played; Woman
in the Olive Groves; Love.
