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Killer Shrimp: Sincerely Whatever

Read "Sincerely Whatever" reviewed by Chris May


Anyone who thinks hard bop is a spent creative force, fit only for the nostalgia and retro bins, could do worse than spin Sincerely Whatever. With just a pinch of electronica and a heap of hard blowing attitude, London's Killer Shrimp delivers the message like it's box-fresh. The quartet's debut album is inventive, physical, full of life, on the edge--and unmistakably of today.

Killer Shrimp is led by tenor saxophonist Ed Jones (who doubles a little bass clarinet and soprano ...

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Killer Shrimp at Pizza Express Jazz Club

Killer Shrimp at Pizza Express Jazz Club

Source: All About Jazz

Just the other day, in one of those quick-fire Q&As beloved of newspaper editors, that fine actress Anna Chancellor was asked if there was any art form that left her cold. Her answer? “British jazz. It makes me think of warm beer and white men with beards.” That's a bit rich coming from someone who got her break in Four Weddings and a Funeral, the last word in warm, homegrown Liebfraumilch. But I do know what she means. There certainly ...

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