Emma-Jean Thackray

★★★★ Yellow MOVEMENTT. CD/DL/LP

A Yorkshire jazz prodigy who learnt trumpet in a brass band, but also sings, makes beats and DJs, Thackray crams a lot into the 14 tracks of her cerebral yet deeply groovy debut. Be it the spiritually questing Mercury, funk-stomper Venus or the title track’s happy-clappy love-in, Yellow scatterguns through P-Funk, Alice Coltrane, gospel, Sun-Ra, electric-era Miles Davis and ’70s jazz-fusion with glee. AC