Beyond their highly sought after 1978 album Festa Para Um Novo Rei¬ – home to the mystical jazz-funk classic ‘Vidigal’ and released on Philips’ iconic Musica Popular Brasileira Contemporanea series (MPBC) – little is known about Marcos Resende & Index, even to aficionados of obscure Brazilian music. Far Out Recordings … read more
Jazz Re:Freshed’s Jazz Re:Fest, now in its sixth year, has become an important focal point for the UK’s rapidly growing community of young jazz musicians. This year it took a holiday from the Southbank for a day trip to the seaside. London’s loss was Brighton’s gain. Only the keenest ticket … read more
1BTN’s Ian Lawton traces the genesis of New York, Jazz-Funk band Defunkt and their underrated album ‘Thermonuclear Sweat’ (Pic: Joe Bowie & John Mulkerin copyright Ian Lawton) The first time I heard the the term ‘Jazz-Funk’ was in connection with Level 42. As a kid weaned on punk and … read more
Mickey Duke’s excellent review of this year’s Love Supreme festival which includes a video interview of Miles Mosley, photographs of the weekend courtesy of Fred Lopez and The Get Up’s Love Supreme special, as aired on 1 Brighton FM on July 3rd. Enjoy 🙂
The streets of Brighton were as colourful and crazy as ever for Brighton Pride weekend (Aug 6-7, 2016). Whilst some of our DJs were helping out community ventures by playing the music on floats in the parade and others were on the streets cheering them on we hosted a bit … read more