Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin

British duo celebrates ten years of collaboration at the intersection of jazz and club music.

Keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones and producer Maxwell Owin have been working together for ten years and are celebrating this with a tour around the album where it all began: Idiom. The long sold-out album is also being re-released on vinyl. The two started making music together as housemates in South London and found a shared language between jazz, soul, dubstep, and grime, where live playing and electronic production naturally coexist.

Armon-Jones has since grown into one of the leading keyboardists and composers of contemporary British jazz, as a member of Ezra Collective and with three solo albums. Turn To Clear View, co-produced by Owin, was considered one of the ten best albums of 2019 by TIME Magazine; in 2025, the two-part All The Quiet followed. Owin developed as a producer and DJ with a love for heavy bass and club rhythms. Together and separately, they have worked with, among others, Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela, Nubya Garcia, Moses Boyd, and Greentea Peng. On their second joint album Archetype (2023), they delved deeper into the underground music history of London, from jazz and soul to dubstep and drill. Ten years after Idiom, they return to where it all began.