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Tweet This is 100% true: at university, I was officially designated a Sexy Voiced Person. What this meant was that I got to do the voice-over for the student radio station idents. Since most of you probably never heard those, I hope you'll humour me and imagine, for the rest of the post, that I sound like a cross between Sean Connery and the Old Spice guy. I may not actually sound like that. Okay, with that piece of house-keeping out of the way, [...]

Over the next couple of weeks the Lounge will highlight all the artists that will be present in this year's Luanda International Jazz Festival, many times using posts that have already been featured here. The line-up is mouthwatering and includes such jazz virtuosos as George Benson and Ronny Jordan, funky beats by Freshlyground and 340ml, coladera and batuque by Lura, Cameroonian tunes by Blick Bassy...the list goes on. [...]
So, what's not to love about acid jazz as a genre? When the music broke out in the late Eighties, it was fairly well defined. The acts were either jazzy funk or soulful R&B. Then other influences crept in, such as hip-hop. It became more of a marketing term, which diffused the genre (as happens every time). Plus, some of the music was just not very good - either it was not truly funk or it was too-light smooth jazz. But the best of it does seem to me to stand [...]