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When “No Confusion” lets Kojey Radical’s chant meet a stubborn bebop beat, the Ezra Collective achieves what Gang-Starr MC Guru already did almost thirty years ago with “Jazzmatazz”: mixing hip-hop and jazz in such a way that as if that were the most natural thing in the world. However, the band around Femi Koleoso is too ambitious to fill an entire album with such an idea.
Mix hip hop and jazz as if that were the most natural thing in the world
Indeed, instrumental jams like “Victory Dance” with an unleashed salsa afrobeat or the reinterpretation of Chaplin’s “Smile,” tracks that give trumpeter Dylan Jones plenty of room for solos, more justify the reputation of the Ezra Collective, the new British jazz hope to be like Emeli Sandé’s guest appearance in “Siesta”.
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