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Nubya Garcia
Nubya fearlessly threw herself head first into this 5ive project, her debut recording, with a clear vision of what she wanted and was meticulous in her pursuit of her sound. Enlisting the help of fellow musical comrades from an exciting new wave of London based talent, Nubya tapped into well-seasoned, harmonious relationships with players that know and understand her – and this joyful union radiates through her compositions.
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Jake Long: City Swamp
by Chris May
Drummer, composer and producer Jake Long's house-rocking City Swamp is part of a trilogy of post-2022 albums out of jny:London's underground jazz scene which are connected by adjacent sources of inspiration, identical creative processes, and crossovers of personnel. Synchronicity and zeitgeist are writ large and, much of the time, in neon. The other two albums are drummer Tom Skinner's Voices Of Bishara (Brownswood, 2022) and London Brew's London Brew (Concord, 2023). City Swamp and London Brew both take their jump-off ...
read moreNubya Garcia, Ches Smith, The Messthetics, James Brandon Lewis & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Nubya Garcia returns; Impulse! Records further syncs itself to today's scene; Ches Smith finds catharsis in laughter; Ken Stubbs pays tribute to Sonny Rollins... These are a few of the interesting things you'll find in this episode of Mondo Jazz.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nubya Garcia “Fortify" Fortify--Single (Concord) 0:16 Host talks 6:01 The Messthetics, James Brandon Lewis “Emergence" The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) 7:21 ...
read moreLondon Brew At Barbican Centre
by Chris May
London Brew Barbican Centre, Main Hall London BrewLondon November 18, 2023 Three years later than originally planned, London Brew made it to the Barbican stage. The star studded ensemble's concert tribute to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) had been intended to mark the fiftieth anniversary of that album. But we all remember what hit the fan in 2020. Theatres and concert halls in Britain were closed and London Brew's Barbican performance was ...
read moreNubya Garcia & Shabaka Hutchings Meditate Together On Bitches Brew
by Chris May
New releases from London doff the hat to two 20th century American masterpieces. Both of the new albums feature tenor saxophonists Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings, playing alongside each other and kicking up a storm alongside other luminaries of the London scene. The double album London Brew (Concord) is to be released on March 31, 2023. On it, Garcia and Hutchings front a twelve-piece lineup which explores Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970). Drummer and percussionist Tom ...
read moreNubya Garcia al Roma Jazz Festival
by Mario Calvitti
Nubya Garcia Roma Jazz Festival 2022 Auditorium Roma 11.11.2022 Tra i nomi di punta della nuova scena jazz britannica, quello della sassofonista Nubya Garcia (si pronuncia nubaia) è indubbiamente uno dei più quotati, con i numerosi premi vinti in patria e l'accoglienza molto favorevole al suo recente lavoro Source, con il quale ha messo d'accordo pubblico e critica. A Roma si è presentata in quartetto, con un programma che attingeva ...
read moreTom Skinner: Voices Of Bishara
by Chris May
Voices Of Bishara is one of the top three jazz albums of 2022 so far and it would take the second comings of John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver and Lee Morgan to threaten to dislodge it. Before going into the particulars, the backstory.... An epically cross-genre drummer, Skinner has lit up avantist British jazz and related musics for around twenty years. He emerged among the cohort of musicians loosely grouped around the self-help collective F-IRE (Fellowship ...
read moreKinetika Bloco: Legacy
by Chris May
Legacy features some of the London jazz scene's leading players, among them tenor saxophonist Nubya Garcia, trumpeters Claude Deppa, Mark Kavuma and Sheila Maurice-Grey, trombonist Nathaniel Cross and tubaist Theon Cross. As you would anticipate, there is much great jazz to be heard on the album, and along the way it bears witness to community spirit and the power of music to do good. It was recorded to celebrate the achievements of the music charity Kinetika Bloco ...
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