New York Jazz ensemble Onyx Collective release their debut album ‘Lower East Suite Part Three’ via Big Dada.

Included in The Guardian’s Ones To Watch For 2018, the new album follows two acclaimed EPs released on Big Dada in 2017

Isaiah Barr, leader of Onyx Collective, has frequently collaborated with other New York musicians such as Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), Nick Hakim, Julian Soto and Wiki (Ratking).

Onyx Collective were also featured in Gilles Peterson’s Best Of 2017 list at Number 16.

Onyx will be supporting Kamasi Washington on his UK tour this May including London’s Roundhouse.

For fans of Nick Hakim, Ezra Collective, Yussef Kamaal, BadBadNotGood, Shabaka Hutchings, Moses Boyd.

Isaiah accompanied Ibeyi for their debut performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in March. He also features on David Byrne’s 2018 album ‘American Utopia’.

Hugely successful London tour in February including a Boiler Room session with Nick Hakim and a headline show at the Curtain Hotel.

Of Onyx Collective’s headline show at legendary jazz club Ronnie Scotts, London Jazz

News spoke of “a band which lacked nothing in confidence or in technical ability.”

“They could be the secret weapon of this summer’s festival circuit” – The Guardian