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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