Liran Donin's 1000 Boats: 8 Songs review – seductive melodies and Led Bib thrash

Cavalo RecordsIn 2009, a riotously style-scrambling band of former Middlesex University jazz students called Led Bib made a big impression at that year’s Mercury prize. Like all the other jazz contenders who have ever made the shortlist, they didn’t win, but the sax-hollering, rhythmically wilful quintet managed to announce that dance-rooted music could risk improvisation and deliver edgy instrumentals with a vocal-like expressiveness, and that jazz could reach a wider fanbase with...

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