Jazz Emu

Jazz Emu is an unpretentious pseudo-comedomusicologist from London, who writes glistening up-tempo pop for the emotionally stunted. His music has racked up millions of streams, been featured on the official Spotify ‘Fresh Finds’ playlist and played on BBC Radio 1. In addition to his viral music video hits, he has appeared on Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown and had a four part radio sitcom on BBC Radio 4, The Sound of Us, which was nominated for British Comedy Guide’s Best Radio Sitcom 2024.

His live shows have been praised for their ambitious combination of narrative, musical and multimedia elements, and after sellout shows around the UK with his band The Cosmique Perfectión, he is preparing for a USA tour with a new solo show in autumn 2025.

At the age of six, Jazz Emu fell in love with a second hand saxophone and proudly took it to a trial lesson. Within a minute the teacher had decided that Jazz’s hands were unusually small, and his shiny brass hopes were crushed with a plastic beginner’s clarinet. Several years of funk-repressed classical training followed, with the groove bubbling pianissimo under the surface. When he finally heard the syncopated hi-hats in Bill Withers’ Use Me, there was no going back. Jazz pulled out the dusty old sax and got to work. He would stay up late at night recording shining synths and near-silent screaming sax solos (no noise after 10pm) on his mum’s BOSS BR900-CD recorder. The results were too powerful to show the general public.

Ten years later, armed with an Akai EWI-4000S, a right hand calloused by synth-glisses and a handsome selection of suits, Jazz has set out to change the world. Combining the lyrically pleonastic and musically dank, this project is an auditory experiment in high-art meets low-art. Imagine performing a Shakespearean sonnet over The Sims loading-music. Or reading Homer’s Iliad off of a toilet roll. Imagining it? Good. You’re roughly three eighths of the way to grasping the sonic mythos of Jazz Emu.

He has absolutely no delusions regarding the potent artistic value of his Body of Work.

“I think I may have just found my new favourite comedian” The Times *****

“This is a work of genius” ***** The Telegraph

“A very funny man” Greg James, BBC Radio 1

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