nu-jazz

Jan Jelinek (whose monikers include Gramm, for Source Records, and Farben), is a Berlin-based producer of electronic music drawing influences from jazz, dub, funk, soul, and house. Prior to releasing on the ~Scape label under his own name, he had put out albums as Farben (for Klang Elektronik). On 2001's Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, Jelinek manipulates fragments of sound from old jazz recordings, transforming them beyond recognition into completely new pieces of music. On la nouvelle pauvrete, he joins forces with the imaginary band The Exposures, which he himself fabricated.

Musician/producer David Lyttle was born 1984 in Northern Ireland to folk musician parents. Following years performing as a child, he developed an interest in jazz in his teens and began working with key artists worldwide. Now considered an exciting new voice in urban music, his current album 'Interlude' features a range of guests from both urban and jazz music, including Mercury-nominated rapper Soweto Kinch, Irish vocalist Rhea, keyboardist Jason Rebello and bassist Pino Palladino.

Bugge Wesseltoft (born February 1, 1964) is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer. Played in the band New Conception of Jazz, but he is only doing solo concerts now. He has his own label named Jazzland Records. In the 1990s, Bugge has made a transition from Nordic jazz traditions exemplified by the ECM record label to a style sometimes referred to as "future jazz" or nu jazz. He has played with Jan Garbarek.

THE HERITAGE ORCHESTRA was initially devised for the Heritage club-night by Chris Wheeler & Jules Buckley. In June 2004 it was the biggest band ever to play in a UK club, with twelve string players; an eight-piece rhythm section; six brass; a woodwind section of six; and three vocalists. In its current state it performs with at least 43 musicians on stage. On Thursday 3rd June 2004 The Heritage Orchestra performed for the first time, attracting 600 people into Cargo; one of the few venues that could technically deal with the band.