Movementt Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Since first breaking through in 2018, Emma-Jean Thackray has proved to be one of the most versatile, adventurous and imaginative artists on the contemporary British jazz underground - a trumpeter, composer, vocalist and bandleader whose spiritually-minded music refuses to settle on one groove, style or sound. Yellow, her debut solo album, continues this trend, combining classic jazz and jazz-funk instrumentation with subtle electronics, glassy-eyed vocal and sweeping strings. Throw in numerous rhythmic and stylistic nods to broken beat, jazz-house, P-funk, psychedelia and jazz fusion, and you have one of the most singularly stunning musical statements of 2021 so far. In a word: incredible.