{"title":"The Near Jazz Experience","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"afloat-afloat-in-dub","title":"Afloat \/ Afloat In Dub","description":"\u003cp\u003e“I could sit in awe of the talent on show here all day long.” - Neil Hodge Louder Than War… The NJE started out as a basic improvising trio playing a monthly residency in a pub in the East End of London, working themselves up the ranks via The Roundhouse and Chats Palace to Daylight Music at the EFG London Jazz Festival and Pizza Express\/Holborn Live. They still find it hard to use the \"J-word\" to describe their music. \"We play instrumental music rooted in rock and blues music - it's just that we use electronics and jazz instruments to do it,\" says multi-instrumentalist Terry Edwards. A good example of this is Terry's trade-mark sound of playing two saxophones at the same time. \"I first heard that as a teenager on Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and The Blockheads rather than Roland Kirk, the godfather of the technique.\" Drummer Simon Charterton's influences are Little Feat, The Grateful Dead and Krautrock and Mark Bedford is the bassist of Madness so there's a really broad church of inspiration bubbling away here, which is truly not that far away from jazz. Let's just say they took the scenic route to arrive just to the left of 'jazz'. Here you'll find the first studio\/live cut-up album including the singles Knife-Edge, Acoustic (pts I \u0026amp; II) and Voodoo Child and eight tracks mixed up and dubbed up by On-U Sound supremo Adrian Sherwood, all in a beautiful PiL-shaped tin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sartorial Records","offers":[{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50402545369419,"sku":"2180393","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Near_Jazz_Experience__Afloat_Afloat_In_Dub_e6dac55e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726549230"},{"product_id":"character-actor-ep-rsd-2024","title":"Character Actor EP - RSD 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eThis product is a Record Store Day exclusive title\u003c\/strong\u003e and is not available to pre-order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy in-store: 8am, 20\/04\/2024 (Record Store Day).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy online: 8pm, 22\/04\/2024. (Subject to availability).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            Don’t forget: Click 'Notify Me' to be the first to know about its availability online. It also helps us to place accurate orders so that we can please as many of you as possible on the day.\u003cbr\u003e\n                            \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a 5 track EP of brand new, previously unreleased material from The Near Jazz Experience (Terry Edwards, Mark Bedford and Simon Charterton). Whilst recording the new album Terry asked pianist Mike Garson (best known for his work with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins) - whom Terry has toured with if he'd like to play on a track. Mike said yes, recorded a stupendous solo for Character Actor at his home studio and sent it over. All in the space of 24 hours! On hearing the piano part NJE bassist Mark Bedford came up with the idea of having the piano mixed with the original track (as intended) but also using it as the basis for a completely new recording with the piano leading rather than complementing the band. Side 1 of the EP has these two very different versions from the same seed. Unidentical twins indeed. Side 2 of the EP contains 4 outliers from the album sessions. These aren't out-takes or unfinished pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sartorial Records","offers":[{"title":"Black 12\"","offer_id":50408498921803,"sku":"2181435","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/I00544113_149ea5f9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726604855"},{"product_id":"nought-to-60","title":"Nought to 60","description":"\u003cp\u003eA statement of intent from The NJE. Spirit of Indo takes up the whole first side of their RSD 2021 mini-album - and it certainly doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. Improvised over a gently incessant yet soporific loop, bassist Mark Bedford and drummer Simon Charterton fall in and out of grooves while multi-instrumentalist Terry Edwards deftly moves between saxes, trumpet and melodica to invent topline melodies within that comfortable straitjacket. As the track progresses bigger instrumentation is suggested by the tunes - and so the track builds with more horns and percussion, the resulting climax making way for the comforting loop to bring us back down to the start. Side 2 opens with an instrumental version of Bowie’s Five Years, even more pared down than Edwards’ previous take on the tune for a John Peel session in the nineties. Bedders’ acoustic and electric basses weave around each other while Simon’s understated cymbal-work buoys up the fragile melodica melody. Tizita raises the tempo slightly and is inspired by Ethiopian jazz-legend Mulatu Astatke who Terry had the pleasure of working with a few years back. Title track Nought to 60 is driven by Teutonic beats on electronic Wave drum, a Motorik bassline and heavily effected saxes which thunder towards the buffers - after which you’ll want to flip the album and start all over again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sartorial Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51026046615883,"sku":"1118553","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0d45e6db-5f4e-480a-83e1-de7a76babb27_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1735562727"},{"product_id":"tritone","title":"Tritone","description":"\u003cp\u003eDimple Discs unleash a new release from the \u003cstrong\u003eNear Jazz Experience\u003c\/strong\u003e. They play wildly improv but tuneful music - cross Can's rhythm section with Roland Kirk, and Motown and you'll get close to where The NJE is coming from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are three musicians at the top of their game. Hint of soundtracks for spaghetti westerns and Bollywood only enriches the mix!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dimple Discs","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51707681014091,"sku":"R2736-9197","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51707680981323,"sku":"R2736-3997","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/image006_4e94e6eb-a830-461f-a2c4-001b7b3073ab.jpg?v=1752237368"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/the-near-jazz-experience.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}