Our recent recommendations for The Jam Jar
The most vital act to survive the 90s acid-jazz / trip-hop boom - Red Snapper’s electronic playfulness, instrumental virtuosity and disregard for genre boundaries blazed a path for the current Bristol jazz crossover scene (Snazzback, Waldo’s Gift etc.)
Red Snapper + Support at The Jam Jar.
Freewheeling cultureclash orchestra traversing free jazz, post-punk highlife and minimalist classical with transcendental results. Think Sonic Youth + Glen Branca’s downtown NY guitar ensemble covering Fela Kuti and you’re not even close (maybe Sons of Kemet raiding the Philip Glass’ songbook is closer…but you’ll have to see for yourself).
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp at The Jam Jar.
The legacy of Tanzania’s Real World Records giant Hukwe Zawose continues in electrifying fashion with Zawose Queens. His daughter and granddaughter meld rapturous dual vocals, lilting thumb piano, clattering ngoma drums and hypnotic chizeze fiddle with gurgling synths and thuds of global bass. It’s a joyous and exuberant discovery FFO: Remmy Ongala, Tarika, Stella Chiweshe, Onipa.
Zawose Queens at The Jam Jar.
Sell out warning! Join the upful 30 year revelries for the OG squat ska punks that refuse to lie down. Must-attend if you like your punk with lashings of upbeat dub guitars, folk singalongs and flag-burning lyricism. Huge FFO: The Slits, Citizen Fish, pre-footie anthem Chumbawumba, The Clash in dub, Capdown, Operation Ivy.
30 Years of Inner Terrestrials - New Date Added at The Jam Jar.