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Metalheadz mainstay Lenzman will be releasing his second album, Bobby, for Goldie’s legendary label on March 29. The new album promises 16 tracks, most of which are all Lenzman, but there are a couple of guest spots on there, principally “Rain” featuring soulful hip-hop duo Children Of Zeus. This isn’t the first time he’s worked […]
Meet Cykada; featuring Jamie Benzies (bass), Tile Gigichi-Lipere (keys/programming), Timmy Doyle (drums), Axel Kaner-Lidstrom (trumpet), James Mollison (saxophone) and Javi Perez (guitar), they’re best described as a group of jazz luminaries (who have played in groups including EZRA Collective, Maisha and Myriad Forest). Fired up by the new lease of life amid the UK jazz […]
Not to be mistaken for an R&B singer, Ruby Rushton is the band name of Tenderlonious (aka Ed Cawthorne, UK jazz stalwart and 22a label founder), Nick Walters, Aidan Shepherd and Tim Carnegie. Expected on 7″ vinyl in February, “Eleven Grapes” will also feature on the third Ruby Rushton long player, Ironside, set for release […]
Early December, 2018, a day before Swindle’s headline show that saw Ghetts, Kojey Radical, Etta Bond, Knucks and more take to the stage, I had never seen an artist so focused on the task at hand. Rehearsing at Shepherd’s Bush Studios with his band members, a cool, calm and collected Swindle took on an ambitious […]
It’s best to not take Joel Embiid entirely seriously. More than most MVP candidates, and he’s in that discussion this season, Embiid realizes the unimportance of most off-the-court matters. When most everything can be construed as a joke, the tension inherent to contests of athleticism lessens. That’s likely why he got in a dig at Jazz big man Rudy […]
Drake has asked that a judge ban any evidence of his wealth from an upcoming trial between himself, a music publishing company called Hebrew Hustle, and the estate of jazz musician Jimmy Smith. In 2014, Hebrew Hustle and Smith’s estate sued Drake for allegedly sampling a Smith song on the track “Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music […]
Acclaimed jazz musician Roy Hargrove died in New York City on Friday night, just weeks after his 49th birthday. Hargrove’s longtime manager Larry Clothier told NPR that the cause of death was cardiac arrest. The celebrated musician was recently admitted to the hospital for kidney-related issues and was reportedly on dialysis for multiple years. “It is with great sadness […]
