Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival news : Sons of Kemet

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Sons of Kemet

Sun 14 July – 20:30
George Square Spiegeltent

Tickes on sale now voa https://tinyurl.com/EJBF19Sons or in person/phone at The Hub – Edinburgh's Festival Centre – (0131 473 2000)

Saxophonist, Shabaka Hutchings, is the central figure in the new London jazz scene, and his band, Sons of Kemet, are at the vanguard of a new jazz world where relentless dance-ready rhythms culled from the calypso and soca of the Caribbean and urban hip hop, create an urgent, abrasive energy for Hutchings high-octane saxophone to feed from. The band features Theon Cross on tuba and two drummers from a revolving cast that includes Tom Skinner, Seb Rochford, and Eddie Hick interplaying beat . They’re redefining the music: “Not being from the place that jazz is born from means that I don’t feel any ultimate reverence to it. It’s just about finding ways of reinterpreting how we’re thinking about the music, re-envisioning it, just like completely decontextualizing it and saying it’s up for grabs”.

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