Emma-Jean Thackray

Emma-Jean Thackray is one the U.K.'s genuine musical enigmas. She wears many hats: trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, bandleader, producer, beatmaker, radio host, videographer, club DJ, and Worldwide FM DJ. She also runs her own Movementt imprint under the Warp Records umbrella. Musically, she is the standard-bearer of a spiritually minded sound that readily channels the inspirations of '70s jazz-fusion/jazz-funk and stitches it to broken beat and house in a particularly dancefloor-oriented take on modern jazz. Her creative philosophy is, "Everything I rele...