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Musical supernova Jazz Emu (The Telegraph’s 26th Funniest Comedian of the 21st Century) is working out his brand-new show, with a full live band…
The Royal Variety Show.
The headline slot.
At long last, a chance for Jazz Emu to secure his long-coveted Knighthood. But it’s bad news; a series of recent tax, bribery and libel allegations are threatening to snatch the coveted prize from before his very, very, very eyes.
Will Jazz and his Contractually-Less-Talented-Than-Him band, The Cosmique Perfectión, be able to put on a Heck Of A Show and secure a Royal Pardon? Or will Jazz’s next performance be in the canteen at Wormwood Scrubs?
Let the Majesty commence.
The Telegraph’s 26th Funniest Comedian of the 21st Century
British Comedy Guide’s “Best Reviewed Shows at The Edinburgh Fringe”.
Double Chortle Awards 2023 winner.
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Jazz Emu Biography
Jazz Emu is an unpretentious pseudo-comedomusicologist from London, who writes glistening up-tempo pop for the emotionally stunted. He has garnered a cult following on Youtube, after his first song Light Touch reached the top of Reddit Videos. Since the release of his debut album [sic] in 2020, followed by Vulnerabilité in 2021, his music has racked up 500k streams, been featured on the official Spotify ‘Fresh Finds’ playlist and played on BBC Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James.
At the age of six, Jazz Emu fell in love with a second hand saxophone and proudly took it to a trial lesson. Within a minute the teacher had decided that Jazz’s hands were unusually small, and his shiny brass hopes were crushed with a plastic beginner’s clarinet. Several years of funk-repressed classical training followed, with the groove bubbling pianissimo under the surface. When he finally heard the syncopated hi-hats in Bill Withers’ Use Me, there was no going back. Jazz pulled out the dusty old sax and got to work. He would stay up late at night recording shining synths and near-silent screaming sax solos (no noise after 10pm) on his mum’s BOSS BR900-CD recorder. The results were too powerful to show the general public.
Ten years later, armed with an Akai EWI-4000S, a right hand calloused by synth-glisses and a handsome selection of suits, Jazz has set out to change the world. Combining the lyrically pleonastic and musically dank, this project is an auditory experiment in high-art meets low-art. Imagine performing a Shakespearean sonnet over The Sims loading-music. Or reading Homer’s Iliad off of a toilet roll. Imagining it? Good. You’re roughly three eighths of the way to grasping the sonic mythos of Jazz Emu.
He has absolutely no delusions regarding the potent artistic value of his Body of Work.
Read MoreAt the age of six, Jazz Emu fell in love with a second hand saxophone and proudly took it to a trial lesson. Within a minute the teacher had decided that Jazz’s hands were unusually small, and his shiny brass hopes were crushed with a plastic beginner’s clarinet. Several years of funk-repressed classical training followed, with the groove bubbling pianissimo under the surface. When he finally heard the syncopated hi-hats in Bill Withers’ Use Me, there was no going back. Jazz pulled out the dusty old sax and got to work. He would stay up late at night recording shining synths and near-silent screaming sax solos (no noise after 10pm) on his mum’s BOSS BR900-CD recorder. The results were too powerful to show the general public.
Ten years later, armed with an Akai EWI-4000S, a right hand calloused by synth-glisses and a handsome selection of suits, Jazz has set out to change the world. Combining the lyrically pleonastic and musically dank, this project is an auditory experiment in high-art meets low-art. Imagine performing a Shakespearean sonnet over The Sims loading-music. Or reading Homer’s Iliad off of a toilet roll. Imagining it? Good. You’re roughly three eighths of the way to grasping the sonic mythos of Jazz Emu.
He has absolutely no delusions regarding the potent artistic value of his Body of Work.
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