Jazzpospolita above survey the scene
Prog-jazz is a warm wind blowing across the rooftops of the fast mutating new jazz scene at the moment, and coming hard on the heels of this month’s Match&Fuse festival in Oslo to be headlined by Jaga Jazzist and featuring the scene’s trailblazers WSP whose milestone “Kershaw" album Fire in A Petshop is reviewed here www.marlbank.net/reviews/583-pet-sounds the M&F caravan returns to home ground in east London following the inaugural festival last year for a mini-fest in late-July. Led Bib who headlined the first running, Troyka, the Laura Jurd Quartet, Kairos 4tet, Chris Sharkey, Italian progsters Ay!, Norwegians Mopti, and Polish “statists” Jazzpospolita are all in the starting line-up of the two-dayer to be held on 25 and 26 July with more names to be added. Gigs are at Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, and the Vortex in Dalston. Tickets via www.matchandfuse.co.uk