Bleep

The latest new talent to emerge from London’s resurgent jazz scene is the keyboard-bothering Joe Armon-Jones. A founding member of the celebrated Ezra Collective, Armon-Jones proves himself a dab hand at band leading on his debut solo LP. Starting Today - a record which features other young upstarts like Moses Boyd and Nubya Garcia - evinces an artist rooted in the solid foundations of jazz, yet also willing to incorporate new styles and timbres in a manner reminiscent of Shabaka Hutchings and the aforementioned Boyd. Tracks like ‘London’s Face’ hum with the energy of Brownswood’s funkier releases, while ‘Almost Went Too Far’ is a smooth-as-silk jam that also shows off Armon-Jones’s prodigious keys chops.