A CLASH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itself.
''Not solely a book about jazz, or even a nascent cultural shift; it-s a record of a pivotal moment in UK history.''
BIG ISSUE
By the end of the last century, jazz music was considered by many to be obsolete and uncool, a genre appreciated only by out of touch white men with deeply questionable taste. And yet, by 2019, a new generation of UK jazz musicians was selling out major venues and appearing on festival line-ups around the world. How has UK jazz rehabilitated its image so totally in twenty-five years? And how did it ever become uncool in the first place?
Reaching back to the roots of jazz as the -unapologetic expression- of oppressed peoples, shaped by the forces of slavery, imperialism and globalisation, Andre- M
