9 Lazy 9 is an acid jazz/downtempo group on the Ninja Tune label.
Operating out of Italy in 1992, they soon gained respect for their first album Paradise Blown.
Their sound, distinctively more sun than North Sea, is a smoky Mediterranean mix of vines and good times. Keir Fraserello and James Bradell (also of Funki Porcini and performing here under the guise of Giacomo Braddellini) had been making music for many years in different guises before combining forces in Rome in the early nineties. Read more on Last.fm