Collaring Chaz

'Mostly We Drive', the debut album by Michael Messer & Chaz Jankel, sees two of Britain's finest musicians recording together for the first time. Virtuoso slide guitarist, singer-songwriter, Michael Messer and multi-instrumentalist, Chaz Jankel have created an exhilarating and accessible album comprising eleven original songs of mesmerising grooves, with superb slide guitar playing and thought-provoking lyrics that bears comparison with the finest work in either of their garlanded careers.

Chaz Jankel was a founding member of the Blockheads and Flow is his new solo album. It is a triumph across 13 cuts of soulful, funky and jazz tinged tunes that will be familiar to anyone who has tuned into Ian Dury and the Blockheads over the years. Chaz is joined on this one by fellow Blockhead saxophonist Dave Lewis and trumpet comes from Bryan Corbett while two vocalists guest in Melody Palmer and Andy Caine, both of whom bring real soul.

Looking At You is the 1085 album by artist Chaz Jankel. This was released on compact disc through A&M Records.

'Mostly We Drive', the debut album by Michael Messer & Chaz Jankel, sees two of Britain's finest musicians recording together for the first time.

Some are subtle as a fan dance, while others are saucy as twirling tassels, and they're all collected here—the finest, raunchiest, most teasing burlesque poster art, from the Follies Bergère of 1880 to the London Burlesque of 2008. More than 150 poster designs illustrate the history of bumping and grinding, flirting and subverting. All graphic designers eager to study the evolution of this specific art form will find this collection essential.

The season has changed. Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, Matthew Sage, and Patrick Shiroishi continue forward with what follows 2020’s Fuubutsushi. Here, it is a new year, and it is time to shake the demons off and make a fresh start. Setsubun is the Winter chapter in the cycle (yes, Spring and Summer will come one day), but don’t conflate this “winter music” with the holidays; this is music for the stretch between January and the first peals of spring. The days in this chasm that may be getting longer, however slowly, but the nights are still long. The air is crisp. The natural world lays dormant, but the imagination flutters.