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29 guide 12-18 Aug 2017 music

Jazz From being talent-spotted
by Miles Davis in London
aged 21 to playing with greats
including Thelonious Monk
and Chick Corea, Dave Holland
(pictured) – both a virtuosic
bassist and an innovative
composer – has been one of
Britain’s most influential jazz
exports for almost five decades.
But his UK roots remain, notably
in his work with the now
10-year-old National Youth Jazz
Collective. Holland plays this
NYJC celebration in a duo with
London pianist Julian Joseph,
with vocalist Norma Winstone,
saxophonist Tori Freestone
and many more also on the bill.
John Fordham
Kings Place, N1, Sat

NYJC 10th Birthday All
Star Concert London

Experimental In a colossal
warehouse space where the
Evening Standard and Daily
Mail used to roll off the presses,
the London Contemporary
Orchestra perform a clutch of
new and recent commissions.
The headline slot is filled by
composer and turntablist Shiva
Feshareki, whose new piece for
45 instruments, GABA-Analogue,
is performed. Other pieces will
sound out from around the
building, including Edmund
Finnis’s Parallel Colour; a piece
by CHAINES for organ, strings
and electronics; and the unstable
tempos of Benedict Mason’s
Nodding Trilliums and Curve-
Lined Angles. Jennifer Lucy Allan
The Printworks, SE16, Fri

TRACK OF THE WEEK

Khalid Young Dumb & Broke

Young, sure: at 19, Khalid

Robinson is a goddamn

millennial falcon. But the

former army brat with the

wistful R&B croon certainly

isn’t dumb, and if he keeps

putting out songs as good as

this hummable humdinger,

won’t ever be broke, either.

More decrepit listeners might

detect echoes of the Cure’s

Close to Me amid Young

Dumb & Broke’s palliative

organ spiral, but that just

adds to the bittersweet vibe

of taken-for-granted golden

years turning to ash.

Fall Out Boy Champion FOB

have been gearing up for

that notoriously diffi cult

third post-reformation album

since recent single Young

and Menace – a catastrophic

excursion into EDM histrionics

• saw them seemingly short-
  circuit their emotional GPS.
  Thankfully, Pete Wentz
  and co are back on track
  with Champion, a gritted-
  teeth tale of triumph via
  masochistic endurance, built
  on some road-tested riff age.

Kendrick Lamar ft Rihanna

Loyalty Anyone who has

accidentally handed over

their Tesco Clubcard at the

Waitrose checkout while

trying to claim a free latte

knows that loyalty can be

a slippery philosophical

concept. Who better

to debate the pros

and cons than RiRi

and Ken? The volcanically

hot pair fl uidly fence over

a nervy, serpentine slow

jam created, remarkably, by

someone putting Bruno Mars’s

cheerfully facile 24k Magic

through a digital spiralizer.

Major Lazer ft Anitta & Pabllo

Vittar Sua Cara Turns out

the word “twerk” sounds

a lot more appealing in

Portuguese. In what feels

like a rather opportunistic

attempt to either slipstream

or eclipse the world-gobbling

Despacito, Diplo drafts in

Brazilian pop star Anitta and

drag queen Pabllo Vittar

to add some fi re emoji to

the latest in Major Lazer’s

production line of future-

hedonism fl oorfi llers,

complete with dancehall

stomps and nose-fl ute solo.

Belle and SebastianWe Were

Beautiful More of a shy “still

here!” wave than booming

“we’re back!” statement, this

appealing curio from the indie

leviathans takes its sweet

time to get going, though the

relative novelty of hearing

the patron saints of Breton

T-shirts and library cards

unleash a breakbeat

will likely get you past

its dreamy longueurs

to what’s a pretty

kickass chorus

Boy’s on the

hood Khalid,

dreaming of

a new motor

GABA-Analogue London

mar ft Rihanna

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Clubcard at the

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unleash a breakbeat

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towhat’s a pretty

kickass chorus

This week’s tracks Graeme Virtue