Unapologetic Expression

<p><b>A <i>CLASH</i> MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024</b><br><b><br>A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, </b><b>encapsulating</b><b> its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itself.</b><br><br>''Not solely a book about jazz, or even a nascent cultural shift; it¿s a record of a pivotal moment in UK history.''<br><b><i>BIG ISSUE</i></b><br><br>By the end of the last century, jazz music was considered by many to be obsolete and uncool, a genre appreciated only by out of touch white men with deeply questionable taste. And yet, by 2019, a new generation of UK jazz musicians was selling out major venues and appearing on festival line-ups around the world. How has UK jazz rehabilitated its image so totally in twenty-five years? And how did it ever become uncool in the first place?<br><br>Reaching back to the roots of jazz as the ¿unapologetic expression¿ of oppressed peoples, shaped by the forces of slavery, imperialism and globalisation, Andre¿ M