Results for "Alec Dankworth"

Alec Dankworth

Room for Dancing

By John Crawford

Label: Elsden
Released: 2024
Track listing: Maite's Dance, Elena's Dance, Club del Campesino, Things, Blossom, And So it Goes, Polegnole e Todora, Track, Elena's Dance (Remix), Bow and Codeine

Celebrating Sir George Shearing

By Carl Gorham

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Conception; Let's Live Again; From Rags to Richards; Let There Be Love; The Fourth Deuce; Easy; Night Flight; Lullaby of Birdland; Children's Waltz; Midnight Mood; Rondo.

Colour of Sound

By Zoe Rahman

Label: Manushi Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dance of Time; For Love; Little Ones; Sweet Jasmine; Go with the Flow; Roots; Unity; Peace Garden.

Banks Of The River

Label: Jazzcahoots
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dutch Daffs; Those Who Wait; Ere This Groove We Lay Down; Polkadots & Moonbeams; The Artist; Banks Of The River J; Chitz; Heavy Days; Vesting Day.

Shear Brass: Celebrating Sir George Shearing

by Neil Duggan
August 29, 2023

The work of the late George Shearing, or Sir George Shearing OBE to give him his full title, is the subject of the debut album from Shear Brass, a band dedicated to playing new arrangements of his music. They are led by Shearing's great nephew, drummer Carl Gorham. The album, Celebrating Sir George Shearing, features eleven ...

Zoe Rahman: Colour of Sound

by Neil Duggan
July 4, 2023

If you have shown your virtuosity on the piano in a variety of live and studio recordings, been recognized as one of the leading lights in contemporary British jazz and won multiple awards, what do you do next? In Zoe Rahman's case, more of the same but expanded and magnified. Most often heard in a trio ...

Hummus Crisis: Banks Of The River

by Chris May
April 16, 2023

For their third album, British organ trio Hummus Crisis--guitarist Kevin M. Armstrong, organist Martin Pickett and drummer Ben Twyford--reconstruct themselves. The trio becomes a quartet with guest Alec Dankworth taking over the bass lines, and Pickett switching from organ to acoustic piano. And, in a smaller tweak, for the first time a standard, Jimmy Van Heusen's ...

Abdullah Ibrahim: The Sound of the Universe

by Mackenzie Horne
September 13, 2019

Abdullah Ibrahim's cosmology informs his art. While some might look upon him as an overseer at the crossroads between new and old, the tempered pianist stands as a sage, painting swirling rhythms that resemble the spheres of the universe with his compositions. He continues to combine ancient wisdom with the tones of the future; formation and ...

Bill Bruford's Earthworks: Earthworks Complete

by John Kelman
July 3, 2019

Since retiring as a professional musician in 2009, progressive/art rock turned jazz drummer Bill Bruford has successfully managed to maintained a place in the public eye. Beyond his engaging, informative and successful Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Jawbone Press, 2009), the drummer/percussionist has more recently released a second, equally captivating book, Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer ...