Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Artist_Danny Elfman The UK Jazz Funk scene

The UK Jazz Funk scene began for me in earnest in 1978 when I moved from the Blackpool Mecca to Manchester's Rafters nightclub on Oxford Street

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Gemma has a powerful and immediately recognisable voice with personality

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Artist_Danny Elfman The UK Jazz Funk sceneCarrie & Lowell sounds like memory: it spans decades yet does not trade on pastiche or nostalgia. Stevens's gauzy double tracked vocals wash across the dashboard of long finned, drop top Americana, yet as we race towards the coast we are reminded that sunshine leads to shadow, for this is a landscape of terminal roads, unsteady bridges, traumatic video stores, and unhappy beds that provide the scenery for tales of jackknifed cars, funerals, and