JK Group

• limited 12 inch ep

Multi-dimensional future-jazz outfit JK GROUP release a new EP, Rising on La Sape Records. The brainchild of award-winning saxophonist, Joshua Kelly (30/70 collective, PBS Young Elder of Jazz 2019), the band returns to the label with a follow up EP to the mind-bending 2021 release, What’s Real? 

Where What’s Real? served as a platform for wild experimentation, Rising returns to a more considered and familiar format for the band, offering up 4 cohesive tracks that are deep in conception and expression, at once original and fresh. Conceived after recording an as yet unreleased body of work written whilst undergoing chemotherapy, Rising celebrates bandleader Josh’s survival and eventual recovery from the intense treatment he received for lymphoma in 2020.

PERSONNEL:

• Joshua Kelly - (alto & tenor saxophone)
• Lewis Moody - (fender rhodes, synthesizers, piano)
• Matthew Hayes - (electric bass)
• Ziggy Zeitgeist - (drum Kit and triggers, percussion)

• Maggie May - (vocals on B2)
• Niran Dasika - (trumpet on B1)

Recorded live on January 5th, 2022 at Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Find Joy
• A2. Find Strength

• SIDE B
• B1. Rising Part I
• B2. Rising Part II