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NEWS ..(last updated - 9 May-08)
Phil Robson
new release: Six Strings and the Beat

Available soon.


"...a hot contender for European releases for 2008" John Fordham,****review, Guardian May 2008

"...his best album to date." Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise.



Outhouse
debut album has arrived!! You can buy it now by clicking sleeve (see below) or download here
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NEW:
Christine Tobin
Secret Life of a Girl


"Sexy, gutsy, bluesy and beautiful."
(Lionel Shriver, author of ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin')

“A singer who refuses to be boxed in by convention” (The Sunday Times)

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NEW:
Paula Rae Gibson
Maybe Too Nude


"With a crystalline voice that switches between low confessional tones to fragile, gossamer-light highs, Gibson's acerbic wit constantly questions her (and the listener's) desires, feelings and self-image."
(
Time Out )


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2007:Portico Quartet
Knee Deep in the North Sea


" ...pieces with a recognisably human touch. ECM with a little extra passion if you will".
( Sunday Times)


“Their hook-based, jaunty, yet subtly layered music is tailor-made to find friends everywhere.” (The Guardian)


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NEW: Outhouse
Outhouse


"It's a coherent and well-structured set and a stunning
debut" (Jazzwise)****

"Leading the pack for 2008 are Outhouse whose edgy Downtown-influenced two-horn attack is twisted in wild new directions by their deep interest in the Wolof drumming traditions of west Africa."
Jon Newey (editor, Jazzwise)


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2007:Billy Jenkins
Songs of Praise
Live!



"The wayward world of Jenkins has never sounded more enticing."
( The Times)



"An unusual gentleman... in these homogenous times, we need him."
(The Stool Pigeon)




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2007: Fraud
Fraud

2007 BBC Jazz award nomination/Ronnie Scotts Best Newcomer award

“If Neil Cowley's trio was the new UK jazz creative wild card last year, and Acoustic Ladyland the year before, Fraud might grab those honours for 2007...It's what the phrase cutting edge was invented for ”
(The Guardian)****

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2007 : Led Bib
Sizewell Tea


“…If you don't go near jazz because it just isn't damned noisy enough, then come back to life to try the deliciously uncivil new Led Bib album... Led Bib are jazz, though, through and through, crammed with horn and blast, and as much swing as sweat” 
(Paul Morley, Observer Music Monthly )

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**** 2007


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Julie Sassoon
New Life


"The effect is rather Keith Jarrett-meets minimalism, full of swooning rhapsodies grounded by hardedged
repetitions." (Independent) ****

"...music of rare beauty." (Duncan Heining, Jazzwise)****


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Polar Bear
Held on the Tips of Fingers
2005 Mercury Nominated

#100 'albums that shook the World' (Jazzwise)


Read reviews: Paul Morley/ Guardian / Independent / Telegraph / Times/ Straight No Chaser/Undercover


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Partisans
Max


BBC Jazz Award Best CD nomination 2006


"One of the most exciting, all star, experimental groups in jazz today"
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