Mutant Jazz is a collaboration between promoters Parrjazz and You & I Presents at Metrocola’s Metro Loft, on Leece Street, Liverpool.
The idea is to bring new artists who are part of the Northwest jazz spectrum and present them as key players in our rapidly mutating jazz scene, hosted and herded by the lovely MC James Lyons.
The first Mutant Jazz event in September 2023 sold out and is still being talked about. The artists included Bonk! with their weaponised and entertaining brand of heavy funk rock, Bop Kaballa building their chilled new jazz into a hypnotic drum and bass crescendo, Sweet Beans delivering their throbbing riot jazz and Ranga and the Easy Tigers, a beautiful collaboration of all types of instrumentation, held together by an electronic framework of modular synths covering a large dinner table.
The closing hop-hop jam took the event into the small hours.
Mutant Jazz #4 is scheduled for Friday 27th September, again, upstairs at Metrocola’s Metro Loft, Leece Street Liverpool L1 2TR. Artists include: Mediator Quartet, James Lyons and a number of guest DJs spinning Groovy Jazz and Funk. MC James Lyons will be in the house and a jam might conclude the evening if you are in the mood.
