New Jazz Generation – London Calling!
Thursday, June 14, 2018
London's burgeoning new breed of genre-blind, rhythmically direct jazz musicians has been attracting youthful, multi-cultural audiences not seen in the UK for a generation, pioneering a radical and overdue shift in perception.
With the US and Europe onside, Britain's broadsheets joining in the acclaim, a Shabaka Hutchings-produced album, We Out Here, compiling the scene's key voices, and many of those musicians returning this month to the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Nick Hasted sits down in London with Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Theon Cross and Joe Armon-Jones to discover where the scene began, what it stands for and where it's heading a year after Jazzwise first covered it
This is an extract from Jazzwise Issue #231 – to read the full article click here to Subscribe, save money and get a fantastic jazz CD FREE