Polar Bear

It can, though, give a legitimate leg-up to a band such as Polar Bear, whose new album In Each And Every One has earned their second nomination, and whose questing post-jazz is a long-shot for mainstream acclaim.

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Period said Jez Nelson of BBC Radio 3’s Jazz On 3 announcing Polar Bear to the XOYO audience last night.

Polar Bear's grooves sound steadily more melodic and their melodies more economically cryptic than when they were Mercury prize nominees back in 2005.

This year the band are hidden away in the Westminster Reference Library behind Leicester Square lending the event an atmosphere at once bookish and playfully rebellious.

Tonight a ruminative opening piece thankfully doesn't set the pace; in light of what's to come it's more a palette cleanser a Zen exercise in forgetting any other music you might have heard earlier in the day.

Polar Bear It’s fair to say Polar Bear played something of a blinder as they brought the cutting edge of modern jazz to Merseyside. Getintothis’ Patrick Clarke reflects on an early contender for his gig of the year. Looking back, it was a night set up to be perfect from the beginning for Polar Bear. Wit