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Issue 1050

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THE OFFICIAL 1ST STOP FOR MUSIC WRITING, COMMENT, INTEGRITY, OPINION AND LISTINGS

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Fourplay: The Dream Team

Jazz supergroup Fourplay boasts a quartet of some of the most accomplished musicians on the planet. As an ensemble, they have clocked up 20 years, Grammy-nominations and million-selling records from a dozen albums...

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Zara McFarlane @bluesandsoul.com

Zara McFarlane: It’s a new day, it’s a new dawn… for UK jazz

Semper Azeez-Harris catches-up with UK Jazz world's bright young thing Zara McFarlane ahead of her London Jazz Festival date - with new album "Until Tomorrow" also being recently released, there's plenty to talk about...

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George Benson @bluesandsoul.com

George Benson: Jazz hands

Pete Lewis hooks up with 10-time-Grammy-winning legendary soul and jazz vocalist/guitarist George Benson, who this month continues his already-trailblazing five-decade-plus career with a largely-instrumental new album "Guitar Man"...

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ELEW: the revELEWtion will not be televised…

ELEW is one of jazz music’s greatest geniuses and masterminds. Armed with an impressive repertoire of pop and rock songs, a theatrical persona and the attention span of the world’s greatest Army general, the fearless piano prodigy...

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Down To The Bone @bluesandsoul.com

Down To The Bone: Different Class

It’s not just jazzy, frankly it's not funky, but Down To The Bone’s new album 'The Main Ingredients' is damn good stuff! DTTB's Stuart Wade spoke with B&S' about what went into creating a masterpiece...

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Jose James & Jef Neve @bluesandsoul.com

Jose James & Jef Neve: Team works

Pete Lewis interviews Minneapolis-born, London-based soulful jazz vocalist Jose James about his latest album project ‘For All We Know’ - a musically-intimate collaboration with noted Belgian pianist Jef Neve

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James Langton: A Solid Vintage

Pete Lewis talks to internationally-renowned re-creator of the Big Band Swing sound James Langton. Who this month reunites with his own, 18-piece Solid Senders Orchestra for a special performance at Vintage At Goodwood

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Bluey @bluesandsoul.com

Bluey (Incognito): True colours

Pete Lewis enjoys morning drinks with Incognito’s Bluey Maunick. Who discusses his jazz/funk/soul collective’s new album ‘Transatlantic R.P.M.’ and its prestigious line-up of guests

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Ramsey Lewis: Heart warming

Pete Lewis talks to iconic Chicago jazz-soul pianist/bandleader Ramsey Lewis. Who - in a career spanning over 80 albums - has, at 74 years old, just released his first LP of all-original compositions

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Sir John Dankworth (remembered): Here's Johnny!

He was a pioneer in Jazz, one of the scene’s leading lights, and served as a musical director to the likes of Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald. This one is for Johnny, gone but not forgotten

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THE GOOD FOOT @Madame JoJo's (Every Friday 10pm-3am) Soho, London

Madame Jojo's presents one of the UK's most acclaimed DJ's, Snowboy, for a Friday night residency- 'The Good Foot' features original and authentic Sixties and Seventies Deep Funk, Soul, Rare Groove, Boogaloo, Mambo and R&B

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SINTILLATE @ CC Club (every Friday, 10pm-3.30am) London

It’s quite an achievement for a night to last five years in the volatile and competitive world of Central London clubbing. It’s even more impressive when it doesn’t sell out musically in order to achieve such a status.

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