"Blue Note Re:Imagined," a compilation including musicians from the present jazz scene in the U.K. and its environs who have reimagined classic pieces from the extensive Blue Note archive, was released last week by Blue Note Records. Jorja Smith, Shabaka Hutchings, Ezra Collective, Nubya Garcia, Poppy Ajudha, and a relative newcomer named Skinny Pelembe are among the musicians who contributed to it. Real name Doya Beardmore, the hard-to-categorize musician moved from Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was born, to Doncaster, England, where Gilles Peterson's Future Bubblers program first heard of him. Peterson then signed Beardmore to his Brownswood Recordings label. Before making his Brownswood debut with his 2018 EP "Sleep More, Make More Friends," which included a different guest artist on each track, he made his debut with his self-released 2017 EP "Seven Year Curse" (including electronic musician Emma-Jean Thackray and soul singer Yazmin Lacey, both of whom are also on Blue Note Re:Imagined). "Dreaming Is Dead Now," Skinny's debut full-length album, was released in 2019). His three albums are all excellent, and they demonstrate his ongoing progression into new genres. His music draws influences from a variety of genres, including psychedelia, electronic music, jazz, rock, hip hop, and more, and Skinny weaves them all together in a way that sounds genuinely fresh and creative. It's a mouth-watering fusion that overwhelms you with a variety of flavors at once and combines noises you might not expect to hear together but in a way that brings out the best in each component..

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