Book Talk
Friday 15 November 7pm doors
Book talk start time 7.30pm
Dj set with Liam Large 9-11pm
Jazz Stroud presents a talk on UK Jazz with André Marmot, author of a new book entitled ‘Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion’.
André Marmot has been active in the music industry for the last 15 years as a booking agent, promoter, musician and label owner. His book reaches back to the roots of jazz as the ‘unapologetic expression’ of oppressed peoples, shaped by the forces of slavery, imperialism and globalisation, André 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.
Liam Large
DJ set with Liam Large 9-11pm
The founder of the influential Jukebox Jam R&B club night and label, Liam Large has also worked for Jazzman Records since the early 2000s contributing to many compilations and re-releases, and directly masterminding the Jukebox Mambo series of LPs. Well renowned in the global digging community, Liam takes regular trips to the US and beyond in search of old records, and DJs regularly in London and around the world, playing across the spectrum of vintage black music – soul, funk, R&B, blues, jazz, reggae, hip hop, Latin, African, Caribbean and more.
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André Marmot: Unapologetic Expression – The inside story of the UK Jazz Explosion
A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to the 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 op- pressed 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.
Andre Marmot is an agent at Earth Agency in London, specialising in the common ground between African, jazz and global electronic music. Active professionally in music since 2007 as agent, musician, promoter and label owner, Andre believes passionately in the power of music to connect people across cultural and social boundaries. Unapologetic Expression is his debut book.