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Ant Law

Born: November 15, 1983

British guitarist Ant lives in London and is “a game changer” according to The Guardian. His 5th album ‘Same Moon in the Same World’ (Outside in Music) was released on 4th November 2022. Touring commenced and booking is now underway for 2024.

Same Moon is a collaboration between Ant and the brilliant saxophonist & composer Alex Hitchcock. Recorded in 2020/2021 across multiple continents, bridging the gap between London and Tel-Aviv, and Amsterdam and New York, it brings together a stellar cast of guest musicians performing new compositions: vibraphonist Joel Ross, bassists Linda May Han Oh, Ben Williams and Jasper Høiby, and drummers Jeff Ballard, Kendrick Scott, Sun-Mi Hong and Eric Harland.

Anthropometricks

By Richard Harrold

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Anthropometricks; Five; Concertinas (for Bill); Prelude; Flanagan's Lament; Apostrophe (part I); Apostrophe (part II); Stellar.

Trio HLK: Anthropometricks

by Neil Duggan
April 8, 2024

Albums featuring standards are fairly common. Trio HLK start with this approach and then bend and invert it to create their own musical dialect. All seven compositions on Anthropometricks use sections of jazz standards as their base. The trio then put these ingredients through their version of a musical blender to create something unique. As pianist ...

Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band Live In London

by Chris May
January 18, 2024

Viewed in retrospect, the abiding memory of 2023 is that it produced too many jazz albums prioritizing technical facility over emotional engagement. In London, New York and elsewhere (but not, so it seemed, in Chicago), musicians appeared to focus on virtuosity rather than feeling. Dullsville. For the record, some of those albums that did put soul ...

Louis Stewart's Out On His Own: A Landmark Solo Guitar Recording

by Ian Patterson
January 5, 2024

Dublin's finest export? Not Guinness, but Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart (January 5, 1944--August 20, 2016). A guitarist of tremendous skill, invention and personality, Stewart was certainly the first world-class jazz musician to emerge from Ireland and make a name on the international stage. During a fifty-plus-year career, Stewart played with Benny Goodman, ...

Clouded Lines

By Scott Flanigan

Label: SF Sounds
Released: 2023
Track listing: Prelude; Clouded Lines Part –Fast; Clouded Lines Part Two—Slow; Clouded Lines Part 3—Faster; I’ve Got A Crush On You; It’s Not Yourself; She Has Music; Prelude (Outro).

Dream Band: Live in London

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Abaqua; Verglas; Oblique; Cakeism (Intro); Cakeism; Cakeism (Bonus); Momentum; Grace (Intro); Grace (Part 1); Grace (Part 2); Cat Circles; Red (Intro); Red; North Field; Rio; Brocken (Intro); Brocken; Lift; Sach; Differentials (Bonus).

Chroma

By Emma Rawicz

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Phlox; Xanadu I; Rangwali; Xanadu II; Middle Ground; Xanadu III; Intro to Viridian; Viridian; Falu.

The Defector

Label: AMP Music & Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Defector; Perfect Hindrance; Undone; Moment Gained; Introduction to Without a Voice; Without a Voice; Here (for Chicca); Overlap; Not My Country.

Benet McLean: Green Park

by Chris May
November 11, 2023

Best known as a pianist, with four critically acclaimed albums behind him, on Green Park Benet McLean returns to his first instrument, the violin. The press release says he began studying the instrument at the age of 3, and Wikipedia tells us he was at some stage mentored by classical maestro Yehudi Menuhin. It stacks up. ...