Led Bib: a short, sharp shock of a name for one of the hardest-hitting bands on the UK jazz scene. But the name doesn’t tell the whole story, for this is also a band that’s capable of inventive and intensely emotive music as well as the riff-laden numbers that have helped it to earn the label of "Punk Jazz," among others. In the runup to the release of the band’s fifth album, Bring Your Own (Cuneiform, 2011), the band’s amiable and articulate founder and drummer, Mark Holub, spoke of Led Bib’s development and its growth as a unit, his thoughts about the Led Bib sound, and the secret imagery of the mysterious Bring Your Own cover art…
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