Practical Anarchy is Yusuf Ahmed, Julia Biel and Idris Rahman
Mixed by Tom Maine
Mastered by Idris Rahman
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A really nice one 
Thanks for your recommendation @Will-in-Aus
Ashley Henry just released a new track. Just nice and very melodic. He is such a good pianist
Hopefully there will be a new album soon?
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Some amazing artists and music in this thread. Living in Italy the London Jazz scene is quite new to me, as this music only arrives sporadically down here. I would expand things to include the other great Jazz being produced around the UK. A lot of music is being made, in the UK, that is finally not just a poor copy of US mainstream jazz. Looks like a Scandi jazz thing is happening in the UK ay last.
My current wow discovery is from the Manchester scene. Jasmine Myra’s Rise, blew me away. I am going to have some fun poking around on what the Gondwana Records have produced.
Rob Luft, is starting to emerge as an interesting guitarist. I enjoyed Dahab Days, and he is great on John Surman’s latest CD. Also on Edition, Laura Judd is quite interesting at times, but too much whimsical with some tracks
I have enjoyed Kit Downes’s work with church organs. Obsidian from a few years back on ECM is brilliant. His wife, Ruth Goller has just made one of the strangest albums ever. The beautiful Skyllumina, is worth digging out.
I bring out the Beyerdynamic T1 V2, when I want that deep heavy bass on the Commet is Coming’s Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, to hammer through my head.
London Brew is another favourite with most of the usual London suspects. Source by Nubya Garcia has also got a lot of plays.
I have just started exploring this rich seam of music. I hope some of these players find their way down to Italy, so as I can see them live.
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She’s on the Endlessness album above.
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Jazz fusion from Lahore/London/Poland featuring Pakistani Trio Jaubi, Ed ‘Tendelonious’ Cawthorne, Nick Walters, Hamish Balfour, Tim Carnegie and Marek Pedziwiatr.
I have just finished reading this book, about the London Jazz scene. Has anybody else read it?
As I posted in another thread, it was an interesting introduction to this breath of fresh air in the Jazz world, but it has some flaws. The Jazz world outside of the M25, does not exist for this author, and a lot of good London players like Rob Luft, Ruth Goller and Laura Jurd, are not even mentioned.
I get the feeling a lot has been romanticized in this book. This movement is maybe not the result of musicians springing out from London’s council estate tower blocks, as the book implies. Dig a bit deeper, and many of the main protagonists have attended London’s’ best conservatories and in a throwaway line at the end of the book, it admits many of them are posher than they would have you believe (one of the Ezra Collective went to Eton).
It was worth reading (with a BS filter), as it gave me an understanding of the great music coming out of the UK Jazz scene at the moment.
There are just too few books about contemporary Jazz. It is difficult to understand any music, without some understanding of the background.
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I have listened to some of this new album by Garcia, and I listened to an interview on BBC 6.
I am not really sure about buying this one. Maybe out of curiosity, to see if it grows on me like Sources did. But I am not about those cheesy strings.
But it seems a far weaker album than Source, even if it has some big names playing. I have been listening to Phoenix Reimagined (Live)by Lakecia Benjamin, another female sax player that is being hyped right now, and Garcia seems pretty weak in comparison. Whilst Benjamin really kicks arse, and the hype is justified.
Any other opinions, to help me understand this album.
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Absolutely agree @Nigel1957 her new Album is a bit boring for me
I wil check out Lakecia Benjamin soon, haven‘t heard from her till now
I have got the Garcia but not listened to it very much - I think it is a bit patchy - maybe the more jazz oriented tracks are stronger? I’ll try to track down Lakecia Benjamin.
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That is impression I got too.
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Just streaming Ezra Collective and enjoying it very much. I love this this Soul-Jazz-Reggae Melange and my feet are just tapping. 
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@krautnaimie It is really pleasurable to hear. I’d mention Afrobeat, Fela Kuti and Tony Allen as influences too. I do like this fusion of music from Nigerian and Pan-African roots with a London Jazz twist. Hope to see Ezra Collective live some day.
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I have been belatedly exploring the music that the London Jazz scene has produced. I have found some great music, such as two albums by Cassie Kinoshi and Seed and Blinker and Moses’s Feeding the machine. Some like Nubya Garcia’s Odyssey has left me cold. I got a bit tired of Ezra Collective’s Dance No one’s watching after a few plays.
Guys, which artists and albums are worth searching out?
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Hi @Nigel1957 I could recommend „Beautiful Vinyl Hunter“ from Ashley Henry. This Album shows all the freshness and versatility that comes out of this scene. It features other great artists Like Judi Jackson, Theo Croker, Makaya McCraven or Binker & Moses. IMO One of the best Albums of this Century in any genre.
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Thanks. Yes, I listened to some samples and it is very good. I will add this one to the list.
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