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  Oscar Jerome, review: old school jazz meets South London soul

  The first thing you hear are the drums: tumbling, relentless, insisting that you move. Then comes the bass, so loud it thuds against your ribcage like a heartbeat gone feral. The lights dim to a blue fog as a man with floppy hair and smile starts to sing, over the buzz and twang of his own guitar riffs. This is jazz – but not as you know it.

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  Evening Standard

  Nao - And Then Life Was Beautiful review: a cosier sound

  The latest creative response to lockdown is an album from East London singer-producer Nao

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  Harry Styles among first-time winners at Ivor Novello Awards

  This year 70% of those recognised had not won previously.

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  Bjorn Ulvaeus launches Credits Due campaign at Ivor Novellos

  He was joined in the winners room by Amy Allen, Fraser T Smith and Lianne La Havas.

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  Ivor Novello Awards 2021: Great songs are needed more now than ever, say writers at prestigious ceremony

  The last 18 months may have decimated the live scene, but many people have sought comfort, distraction and even solace from recorded music - making the Ivor Novello Awards, which celebrate songwriting, arguably more important than ever. Harry Styles, Lianne La Havas, Celeste, Goldfrapp and Dave were among the winners at this year's ceremony, which was held in London. Chic frontman and prolific songwriter and producer Nile Rodgers attended the ceremony with Richie Sambora from rock band Bon Jov

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  Harry Styles, Celeste triumph at Ivor Novello songwriting awards

  Singers Harry Styles, Celeste and Lianne La Havas triumphed at the Ivor Novellos in London on Tuesday, winning prizes at the annual awards honouring songwriting and screen composers. More than half of the winners picked up their first Ivor at the ceremony, including La Havas who won best album for her self-titled record, written with musician and producer Matthew Hales. Awards presenters the Ivors Academy described it as "a stunning concept album, its song cycle depicts the stages of a relatio

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  Harry Styles, Lianne La Havas, Dave and Fraser T Smith win Ivor awards

  Harry Styles, Lianne La Havas, Dave and Fraser T Smith win Ivor awards. Best single award goes to Styles, album to La Havas and contemporary song to Dave and Fraser T Smith

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  Cross the Tracks, review: the cream of Eighties disco brings Gen Z to their feet

  “I could hear you guys from my house,” said Lianne La Havas in the middle of her set last night, beaming down at the crowd at her feet. She wasn’t joking. The 31-year-old British soul singer and guitarist was headlining Cross the Tracks, the fledgling soul, jazz and funk festival, in Brixton’s Brockwell Park, an artisan-lager can’s throw from the area in which La Havas grew up and to which she recently moved back from Los Angeles.

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  Cross The Tracks festival review: A line-up that appealed across generations and musical tastes

  4/5 Brixton’s Lianne La Havas gave her latest album a long-awaited live outing as headliner

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  Ivor Novello Awards 2021: Harry Styles and Kid Harpoon lead nominations

  Former One Direction star Harry Styles and Kid Harpoon lead the nominations for this year’s Ivor Novello Awards. Other high-profile nominees include Lewis Capaldi, AJTracey, Celeste and Lianne La Havas. The pair, who have co-written on multiple tracks, have notched up three nominations in two categories at the awards, which recognise creative musical achievement in songwriting and composition.

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