2023-11-01 14:43:16
Juliette De Banes Gardonne Published on November 1, 2023 3:43 p.m. / Modified on November 1, 2023 3:44 p.m.
London, epicenter of a musical earthquake. At the heart of the melting pot, jazz, volatile by nature, has indeed found a place to renew itself. If the English capital has forged its reputation on the sound of garage rock, punk and electronic music, the city has also become a providential land for jazz artists who love cross-breeding. At the Color Factory, a club in east London, worthy heir of the WAG in Soho and the legendary Dingwalls in Camden, we flock to hear, during the weekly JazzJams, musicians improvise with rappers, singers and producers, samplers and drum machines under the arm.
We can no longer count the names that give its pulse to this new page of jazz, musicians Shabaka Hutchings [saxophoniste]Alfa Mist [pianiste]Nubya Garcia and Camilla George [saxophonistes]Sheila Maurice-Grey [trompettiste] et Theon Cross [tubiste], to the collectives Nérija, Moses Boyd, Sons of Kemet, The Comet is Coming, Ezra Collective, Kokoroko and Maisha. These young thirty-somethings are looking for danceable music that also reconnects with the popular, protest and cathartic dimension of its origins. What do they have in common? They have all passed through, near or far, Tomorrow’s Warriors, an educational structure founded in 1991 by bassist Gary Crosby and his partner, manager Janine Irons.
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