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The new cool: how Kamasi, Kendrick and co gave jazz a new groove

John Lewis, The Guardian, 6 October 2016

A generation of jazz musicians has grown up with hip-hop in its blood. The result is the thrilling reinvention of a genre that has been guilty of fixating on its past.

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