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Album: Jessica Lauren Four [ALBUM]
Track: 3 of 10
Title: Happiness Train
Artist: Jessica Lauren Four feat. Jocelyn Brown
Label: Freestyle Records
Cat#: FSRCD093
Formats: CD
Digital Release: 16th April 2012
Physical Release: 16th April 2012

About This Release:

Freestyle Records is immensely proud to be the new home for one of the UK's most creative and in demand musicians, Jessica Lauren.

Since the early 1990s, the soulful, spacey jazz grooves of keyboard player Jessica Lauren have been a familiar part of London's alternative music scene, having in the past released her own original music on Soul Jazz Records, M.E.L.T 2000 and People Records. Jessica's keyboard skills have augmented the live performances and studio recordings of world renowned artists such as Jean Carne, Tom Browne, Dexter Wansel and James Mason, Japan's United Future Organisation, UK soul diva Juliet Roberts, as well as Jessica currently being a core member of Nick Woodmansey's space jazz outfit Emanative.

Jessica Lauren Four is her latest project, nearly entirely acoustic, and is an intoxicating cocktail of her many diverse influences including blues and soul, jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms, combined with ambient dance music, always interesting, absorbing and surprising.

Opening up with White Mountain which is a spell binding and hypnotic blend of 21st century jazz sensibilities, combined with ambient dance music minimalism and is a first rate lesson in the 'less is more approach' to music making. The sense of restraint and space captured on this recording is a quite beautiful and rare thing, especially in the jazz world.

Renowned vocal sensation Jocelyn Brown makes two contributions on the album, the first being the rolling, rhythm & blues romper stomper Happiness Train, which allows Jocelyn to stretch out within a fresh and wide open musical landscape and the result speaks for itself. Her second appearance on this collection, I Believe is gospel influenced soul with Jessica's tender piano and organ work underpinning Jocelyn's quite outstanding and touching vocal performance.

Across on the entire album, Jessica and her band mates, bassist Andrew Kremer and percussionists David 'Booie' Gallagher and Paul Gunter adeptly weave together various rhythmic palates into a varied but cohesive selection of sounds that draw together a world of influences and textures, from the latin pulse of Vaya Con Dios, the jaunty and swinging vibe of Gangaman, and the punchy yet considered attack of The Name Of Fela Will Always Stand For Freedom, this tight musical unit display a rare skill for playing with taste, precision and a selfless, collaborative attitude where the only end result that matters is the music.

Reviews for This Release:

"I think this is a fantastic album!" - Roberts Elms (BBC London 94.9)

"A perfect blend of jazz, soul, blues and Latin. What's not to like?" - Sean Smith (TokyoJazzNotes.com)

"Superb producton, rich rhythms and amazing piano skills! this is one hell of an album in my book!" - Smoove (Smoove & Turrell)

"An outstanding work contending for the greatest albums of the year" - Mark Milz (Further In Fusion)

"Deep, mellow and uplifting.Jessica Lauren Four is a blissful listen!" - DJ Philster (Funkalicious)

"What an incredible mix of tracks, dancefloor and smoke filled room friendly!" - DJ Kappa (Radio Reverb)

"Lovely juicy percussive jazz goodness, we like." - Ollie Lloyd (The Yardbird Club)

"JL4 has delivered a winner! Perhaps it's indicative of how good music really is right now if you are prepared to scratch beneath the surface." - Andrew Jervis (The Friday Night Session)

"Just a classy piece of work.. well done!" - Anthony Psaltis (Eastside Radio)

"A SMOOTH EMBRACE BETWEEN 2 LEGENDS:
ONE CALLED JAZZ AND THE OTHER NAMED THE RHYTHM!" - Dj Ausar (89.3 WRFG FM ATLANTA)

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