Please refrain from completing JJJJJerome Ellis' phrases. The stuttering composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer from New York pleads for tolerance from whomever he is speaking with. He explains, "Sometimes people just walk away." "Perhaps because I didn't follow the choreography that we're accustomed to." Over a video chat, he tells me that these types of […]

Nubya Garcia has had a fantastic year, with a performance at the Proms, a Mercury Prize nomination, and critical praise for her first album, Source. More significantly, the saxophonist is one of a number of young Black British jazz performers who are introducing new audiences to the genre and acting as role models for future […]