Drawn from an album of piano-led decade-themed treatments in the run-up to Alone Together, Ezra Collective pianist Joe Armon-Jones interprets a classic that you might think was simply too familiar and too utterly uncoverable to even be, let alone work. Well take that drift and you'd be wrong. Armon-Jones, who if you like began as a next generation Andrew McCormack but has more of a get-down insistency to his playing than the mighty McC, certainly delivers. The Stranglers’ 'Golden Brown' (a hit and fixture of oldies radio not to mention down the bohemian bingo) in Armon-Jones' hands has a shimmering mirage-like quality to it that sits alongside the approach of when Robert Glasper does Radiohead's 'Reckoner.' Ashley Henry, Sarah Tandy, Reuben James, Roella Oloro and Charlie Stacey are also on the compilation with Ellington, Monk, Whitney Houston, Snoop Dog and Billie Eilish rattling the jazz cage. Out on 26/03
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