Jazz Lates: Jelly Cleaver

Saturday 16th July 8 pm

Ninety One Living Room

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About Jazz Lates

Jazz Lates is a series of intimate Jazz events that take place in our wonderful living room. On Saturday 16th July it is with great pleasure that we welcome Jelly Cleaver to the living room stage.

About the artist

Jelly Cleaver is a guitarist, producer and singer-songwriter based in South London and has been called “exceptional” by Clash magazine, “a rising star” by Dummy Magazine and “outstanding… one to watch for sure” by BBC 6 Music’s Gilles Peterson. She’s received the Steve Reid Innovation Award, is a Serious Take Five artist, and was nominated for an Ivors Composer Award. Receiving praise from both sides of the Atlantic, she’s previously been KEXP and KCRW’s track of the day, Dummy’s track of the week, and has been interviewed on NPR, Bandcamp, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 1xtra, BBC Radio London and Jazz FM.

With a deep and eclectic love of music, Jelly is heavily involved in both the jazz and DIY/post-punk scenes in London. She’s previously released on taste-maker labels Nice Swan (Sports Team, Pip Bloom, English Teacher) and Gearbox Records (Binker and Moses, Theon Cross). She also runs regular jam nights at Windmill Brixton which have been called “joyful” and “intimate” by Jazzwise.

Jelly’s also an activist, and a strain of political dissent runs through her music. During lockdown, she helped develop a workshop on Anti-racism which she delivered to Extinction Rebellion groups across the country as well as presenting the workshop at Brainchild Festival. Her recent project Cosmovisions builds from these radical roots, imagining a world where humankind can live in harmony with nature and itself. She’s also a resident artist at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, where she uses music to promote joy for the hospital’s patients and staff.

Alongside her solo project, she leads disco/jazz seven-piece All Day Breakfast Cafe (previous cover stars of the Jazz UK Spotify playlist) and spiritual jazz ensemble The Forever Presence, as well as playing guitar for other projects and jam nights.

SECONDARY ACT: GOOD ROOM (CLUB AFTER THE JAZZ) FT. BYO BOOGIE

Good Room is a series of free club nights, taking place after our Saturday Jazz Lates. This week we are delighted to present a very special night of music as we welcome BYO Boogie for a unique DJ set until close. More info on this event here.

LIVE MUSIC 9PM