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Blue Note Re:imagined Various Artists

Taking many of the leading lights from the UKs burgeoning Jazz scene, this collection finds them let loose to reinterpret, stretch and skew classic tracks from Blue Note’s legendary archives. Featuring Nubya Garcia, Skinny Pelembe, Ezra Collective, Jorja Smith, and Jordan Rakei among a gifted and talented bunch, the range and variety of sources, experimentalism with the source material, and artists own styles is impressively broad. Shabaka Hutchings’ ‘Prints Tie’ is an emotive and captivating take on a relatively minimalist original and, along with the banging closer of ‘Speak No Evil (Night Dreamer)’ by Emma-Jean Thackray, an album highlight. Whether discovering new artists through the tracks covered or via the artists putting in the new work, this is a collection for Jazz enthusiasts old and new.

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