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#6 | Sons of Kemet | Black to the Future
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According to Patrick Corcoran: “Black to the Future demonstrates the immense power of the quartet, as they inch their way towards wider audiences beyond those that traditionally consume jazz music and point, once more, to Shabaka Hutchings’ figurehead status among British musicians of any genre. That he has two other groups (Shabaka And The Ancestors and The Comet Is Coming) also shifting expectations of genre and creating new ways to use the vocabulary of jazz, makes him one of the most important musicians around right now and he deserves all the flowers he will surely receive.” [Read the Full Review]
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