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Ari Tsugi, Simultaneity, Rebecca's Records ***

Japanese friendly lounge jazz is the style surfacing here from Glaswegian act Ari Tsugi. Featuring among the guests are hot property Corto.Alto trombone auteur Liam Shortall and Ari Tsugi labelmate Azamiah's India Blue. The core Ari Tsugi trio has …

Published: 18 Jun 2024. Updated: 17 days.

Japanese friendly lounge jazz is the style surfacing here from Glaswegian act Ari Tsugi. Featuring among the guests are hot property Corto.Alto trombone auteur Liam Shortall and Ari Tsugi labelmate Azamiah's India Blue. The core Ari Tsugi trio has Clement Gaud, Joe Weisberg and Mashu Harada in the vanguard. Additional keys are rustled up by Angus MacDonald. Purist jazz fans might be a bit sniffy about buying into its luxuriant vamps and all-the-time-in-the-world jazz psychedelia. Pity. Ineluctably it's tastefully enough pieced together. And we liked it best when the whole malarkey goes a bit more bats on 'Natsu' while leveraging its dreamy wooziness characteristically weightlessly elsewhere.

'Haru' and 'Hold Me Tight' drawn from Simultaneity which is out on 5 July are streaming

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Irvine Welsh is on Jazz FM's Book Club

Nothing like living the dream. Or dipping into a good book to the hissing of summer lawns Quick reality check. ''We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We …

Published: 18 Jun 2024. Updated: 18 days.

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Nothing like living the dream. Or dipping into a good book to the hissing of summer lawns

Quick reality check. ''We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.'' Trainspotting (1993)

The words of none other than Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh, pictured, one of the guests coming up on Jazz FM's Book Club which returns on Saturday at 9am. The series sees avid reader Tim Smith take over from the late Jamie Crick for a 10-week run on the specialist London based station. Smith used to co-host BBC Radio 2's own book club and was on the very high rating Steve Wright in the Afternoon. Smith has also presented the soon to return Jazz on Screen series for the station.

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For this new spin around the block once again fiction and non-fiction authors are in focus, each guest choosing a jazz recording as a show item regular spot. Guests include Trainspotting author Welsh and Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell's Ann Powers. The weekly series runs until 24 August.