Unapologetic expression : the inside story of the UK jazz explosion /

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-405) and index.Introduction: the 12-inch promo -- The album. 'Rye Lane Shuffle' : the new UK jazz -- 'You can't steal my joy' : jazz, ownership and appropriation -- 'Movement' : jazz, colonialism, slavery and migration -- 'London Town' : jazz and postcolonial London -- 'In reference to our forefathers fathers dreams' : jazz warriors and the continuum -- Letting go : new industry models and the end of musical tribalism -- 'Free my skin' : social media, new media, old media -- 'Wake (for Grenfell)' : jazz, politics and identity -- 'Man like GP' : Gilles Peterson: forty years of jazz for the dance floor -- The remix. 'Because the end is really the beginning' : where do we go from here? -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: full list of interviews."A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itself. For many in the nineties, jazz was viewed as an obsolete, uncool music, a genre loved by out of touch white men with deeply questionable taste. And yet, by 2019, a new generation of UK jazz musicians were selling out major venues and appearing on festivals line ups around the world. How has UK jazz regenerated its image so totally in twenty-five years? And how did it ever become uncool in the first place? Reaching back to the roots of jazz as the 'unapologetic expression' of oppressed peoples, shaped by the forces of slavery, imperialism and globalisation, Andre Marmot places this new wave within the wider context of a divided, postcolonial Britain navigating its identity in a new world order. These artists have crafted a sound which reflects the nation as it is today - a sound connected to the very origins of jazz itself. Drawing upon eighty-four interviews with key architects of this jazz renaissance and those who came before them - from Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd to Gilles Peterson, Courtney Pine and Cleveland Watkiss - Unapologetic Expression captures the radical spirit of a vital British musical movement"--Publisher's description.