After a two year hiatus, Love Supreme is back, vibrant as ever. Since its inception in 2013 some have questioned whether a large scale jazz festival would survive, going so far as to label it a risky endeavour. The festival responded, casting its net far and wide to celebrate the...
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Mud, music and melodies. Festival season is almost upon us again. Here at Rhythm Passport HQ we’ve been digging through the line-ups, and the Love Supreme program has some gems. Held close to Brighton at the beginning of July, expect treats for world music and jazz lovers. With big names...
![Daily Discovery: Obongjayar – Wrong For It (feat. Nubya Garcia) [Audio]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/125203hqdefault-335x251.jpg)
What’s it like when fresh Colombian sounds meet their sonic siblings from the UK jazz scene? Enter Mestizo. Rising names in the UK Jazz and Colombian new music scenes have reunited for a one-off streamed show as the collective Mestizo. The performance has undergone a creative reinvention following their first...
London-based saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia recently took part to BBC Radio 6 Music 2021 performing, among others, ‘The Message Continues’, part of her latest album Source. You can watch her set in its entirety visiting the BBC Radio 6 website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p098pwnl
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SOURCE is the first long player by tenor saxophonist and one of London’s young jazz luminaries Nubya Garcia. London has been the campus for what has been happening in jazz lately, and the hothouse of Tomorrow’s Warriors and Trinity Laban Conservatoire along with nights like Jazz Re:freshed and Church of...
![Event Review: Boiler Room Festival @ Peckham [London; Wednesday 9th & Thursday 10th October 2019]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/br-festival_jazz_ryan-buchanan_038-335x223.jpg)
Filming performances to be broadcast to viewers at home who can still feel somewhat part of the party is not novel. Boiler Room, the flagship online platform for underground acts to increase their exposure, tapped into a pre-existing appetite amongst the try-before-you-buy internet generation but that doesn’t negate the impact...
The glorious Love Supreme returned to the prime Sussex pastures of Glynde for its seventh year, and what a return it was. With such a startling array of talent on offer, it was a mighty challenge to stay in one spot for too long for fear of missing out elsewhere....
Now in its seventh year, the much-vaunted Love Supreme returns to the verdant fields of East Sussex for another weekend of some of the finest jazz, funk and soul upon these shores. From a relatively unknown and up-and-coming talent such as London-based trombonist Rosie Turton to major international star and...
Brixton has been known as the cultural home of Caribbean diasporic music since the years of the Windrush, but this one-day festival, held in Brockwell Park, has certainly ear-marked the growing popularity in the nu jazz movements that have infected the London music scene, as well as the growing popularity...
