A YOUNG musician from Basingstoke will be featured on an upcoming album reimagining jazz and blues numbers.

Conor Albert has contributed a cover of You Make me Feel so Good to the album Blue Note Re:Imagined 2.

The 23-year-old was invited to join the project, a follow-up to the internationally successful Blue Note Re:Imagined, after finding some success on London’s music scene.

“Rachel, from Decca [Records], she was telling me about this Blue Note Re:Imagined project, which I’d already heard of.

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“I’d already heard the first album and I was a big fan of some of the singles on there.

Basingstoke Gazette: Conor performing (credit: Theo Batteram)Conor performing (credit: Theo Batteram) “And so, I was talking to her about the new project, and she was like ‘well, we’d love for you to be a part of it for the next one’, and I said ‘wow, I would love to do that!’”

Conor, who primarily produces pop music, called the experience an interesting challenge, saying: “I don’t often get to use the very cerebral, jazz side of my brain when it comes to making music.

“Making this tune, there’s a lot of strange cord changes and weird harmonic moments, and it was nice to do that and play some solos on the tune and be a bit weird with it.”

Born in London, Conor moved to Basingstoke with his parents when he was five.

His musical journey started at the age of eight, when his father gifted him music making software and a guitar.

The musician said: “That basically became my thing.

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“After school I would come home and instead of going outside, I would make beats, and I’ve been doing that every day since.”

Conor later moved back to London after attending Cranbourne School and Queen Mary’s College (QMC).

He said: “When I started going to QMC, that was when I discovered the kind of music that I make now.

Basingstoke Gazette: Conor Albert (credit: Joshua Halling)Conor Albert (credit: Joshua Halling) “It was like when I discovered jazz and when I discovered all of these other things.

“I have a very fond connection with my latter years in Basingstoke.

“I played loads of gigs around Basingstoke; I would play at the Sanctuary, and I would play a bunch at the Tea Bar.

“I have a dear connection to my hometown.”

Conor’s music can be listened to on all major music streaming platforms.

Blue Note Re:Imagined 2 will be released on September 30.