André Marmot in conversation with James Endeacott

Recorded at the Talking Shop 2024. André Marmot is an agent at Earth Agency in London, specialising in the common ground between African, jazz and global electronic music. Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion, is his first book, and explores the new U.K. jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to the birth of the genre itself. Drawing upon extensive interviews with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd to Gilles Peterson, Courtney Pine and Cleveland Watkiss, it captures the radical spirit of a vital musical movement, and places it within the wider context of a divided, postcolonial Britain navigating its identity in a new world order.  James Endeacott was born in Halifax on St Patrick’s day 1965, and the first record he bought with his own money was Space Oddity by David Bowie. He was 10, and in some regards he has been working in and with music ever since. From playing in bands and working in record shops, to managing Tindersticks, hanging out with The Strokes, and signing The Libertines to Rough Trade. He started his own label, scored a number one album, and these days presents a show on Soho Radio every weekday morning.