It is an unavoidable fact of modern existence that, in the infinite interior experience of human creativity, every microgenre of art that has been attempted will at some point be swallowed, retrofitted for purpose, and trotted back out as an ‘homage’ or a ‘revival.’
Jazz, fissured as it is with catalogs of meaning that are sometimes as small as a single person, has provided fertile ground for this, especially for British musicians in this first quarter of the 21st Century. The Sorcerers, based out of Leeds, are the band that drew the inevitable card reading “take your cues from Ethiopian jazz.”
Ethiopian jazz was itself involved in the endless process of amalgamation and renewal. It’s a fusion of American jazz roots and traditional…
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There can be few musicians on the planet from a more storied musical dynasty than 
Cosmopolitanism, scholar Paul Gilroy tells us in his 2004 work After Empire, is a dangerous framework when applied from the top of the power structure downward. Too often, he writes, powerful agents who participate in such “have never paused over the actual history of past imperialism and the ongoing effects of colonial and imperial governance” (66), an eliding of the experiences of those subjected to such – the majority of the world’s population, Gilroy notes.
The more new discoveries you make, the more you go back to the beginning,” observes pianist Vincent Meissner.
Pianist Simona Premazzi began her journey in Italy, in a small town on the outskirts of Milano. She took her early musical education in her homeland and moved to New York in 2004. She made a name for herself there — no easy task. Her on-the-bandstand education includes stints with saxophonist Greg Osby and trumpeter Jeremy Pelt. She eventually found herself playing gigs with saxophonist Kyle Nasser. The two began their collaborative musical partnership in 2021, forming the Premazzi / Nasser Quartet with bassist Noah Garabedian and drummer Jay Sawyer.
Made Through Ritual is a new chapter in the six decade legacy of 
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PAZ was a London-based British fusion collective formed in 1972 by vibraphonist Dick Crouch. Their sound was heavily influenced by Latin music, though not entirely. Crouch worked as a producer for the BBC Transcription Department in West London. He formed the group out of a growing dissatisfaction with the local jazz of the time, and a committed belief that melody should be put back into the repertoire. They were long lived on the club circuit in London and the south-east of England attracting a mostly rock audience rather than a jazz one. They never achieved popularity like some of their British contemporaries: Morrisey-Mullen, Brian Augar’s Oblivion Express, early Incognito.
British singer Emma Smith brings a modern attitude to golden-age jazz and traditional pop on 2025’s Bitter Orange. The album works as a strong introduction for U.S. fans, some of whom may be familiar with her 2022 debut, 
Call it the Picasso paradigm: to transcend the traditional confines of an art form, you have to master it first. A third-generation musician, the Los Angeles-based 
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With “Suite for Piano” in 2022, Zorn began exploring classical forms in the context of the jazz piano trio.
The harp is a hefty instrument that comes loaded with baggage, which 
American saxophonist