Polar Bear
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A few years ago, a group of like-minded London jazz artists decided it was time for people to hear their music. They set up a label called Babel, head...

For a long time, the moment I heard the hearty keen of a saxophone, I’d be transported to the Fast Show’s incumbent jazz man, Louis Balfour. He of the...

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Two tenor saxophones, bass, drums, electronics/ guitar. The configuration is the same but the music has taken another slight turn. It's a little more ...

Some upcoming British jazzers want to beat you round the head with their energy — but Polar Bear seduce more subtly. With their twin tenor saxes to th...

In the same way as it was impossible to imagine an Art Blakey or Elvin Jones group without those two percussion geniuses, it's impossible to imagine P...

Polar Bear’s music has already been dubbed ‘post-jazz’ in some quarters, and it is easy to hear why a conventional jazz sensibility might struggle to ...

Seeing as Polar Bear were born from an environment which has nurtured innovation and encourages deviation from constriction, it’s no surprise that the...

Polar Bear sit as something of an anomaly in the UK jazz community. This is a band notable for their youth, but real knuckle-down players, not croonin...

Amazon UK: CD | LP | DLD US: CD | LP | DLD Boomkat: CD | LP | DLD iTunes: DLDLed by drummer Sebastian Rochford, Polar Bear offer a vision of jazz whi...