The new faces of British jazz

On the eve of the London jazz festival, we profile the artists who are winning plaudits for their energy and originalityYou don't often get an American headline artist interrupting his own set to extol the talents of his British support act, but it happened four years ago at the London jazz festival. The support band were Empirical and the headliner was saxophone giant Joshua Redman. He said it gave him hope for the future to hear a very young band that actually played as a band, not a bunch of ...

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