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Article: Catching Up With

Andrew Neil Hayes: Tenor Badness

Read "Andrew Neil Hayes: Tenor Badness" reviewed by Chris May


Something big and wild and loud was stirring on the alternative British jazz scene around 2015, 2016. In London, high-voltage tenor sax and drums duo Binker and Moses made their debut album, as did jazz-rock power trio The Comet Is Coming. Meanwhile, in the west of the country, in the port city of Bristol, tenor saxophonist ...

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Article: Album Review

The Comet Is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

Read "Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam" reviewed by Chris May


A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, tenor saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings (King Shabaka), synths maven Dan Leavers (Danalogue) and drummer Max Hallett (Betamax) were students at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. As alumni, they formed The Comet Is Coming. To jumble allusions with as much abandon as the band approach cosmic ...

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Article: Album Review

Nick Walters: Active Imagination

Read "Active Imagination" reviewed by Chris May


A rugged modal-based spiritual-jazz blowing session from the trumpeter Nick Walters, who has one foot in the underground London scene which is shaking up British jazz, and another in his home city, Manchester. Walters is a member of two Manchester bands, Riot Jazz Brass Band and Beats & Pieces Big Band, and leads the London-based Paradox ...

Article: Album Review

The Comet Is Coming: The Afterlife

Read "The Afterlife" reviewed by Serena Antinucci


Apocalisse. Quando si infrangeranno i limiti dei suoni ci sarà solo una luce a guidarci nella vita dell'aldilà. Questa luce sarà potente, esplosiva, rossa come il deserto che calpesteremo, ignari del futuro, del passato, del presente. In questa terra non ci sarà più tempo, né spazio, tutto sarà stato annullato nella vita precedente. Non si lotterà ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz&Wine of Peace 2019

Read "Jazz&Wine of Peace 2019" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Jazz & Wine of Peace Festival Teatro Comunale di Cormòns e varie sedi nel Collio e in Slovenia 23-27.10.2017 La ventiduesima edizione del festival Jazz&Wine of Peace di Cormòns si è svolta dal 23 al 27 Ottobre, con la medesima, fortunata formula degli scorsi anni: un concerto serale al Teatro Comunale ...

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Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2019

Read "Brilliant Corners 2019" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Brilliant Corners 2019 The Black Box/Sonic Lab jny:Belfast, N. Ireland March 2-9, 2019 For many years the words brilliant, jazz and Belfast rarely appeared in the same sentence. That all changed in 2013 when music promoters Moving On Music launched Brilliant Corners, subtitled A Festival of Jazz in Belfast. Since then, ...

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Article: Live Review

Like A Jazz Machine 2017

Read "Like A Jazz Machine 2017" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Like A Jazz Machine Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz Dudelange, Luxembourg May 25-28, 2017 Size, as Like A Jazz Machine knows, isn't everything. The audience in the Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz amounts to just four seated rows downstairs, with a small standing section to the rear, and ten rows ...

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Article: Live Review

The Comet Is Coming at Black Box

Read "The Comet Is Coming at Black Box" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The Comet Is Coming Black Box 18th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival jny: Belfast, N.Ireland May 3, 2017 The Comet Is Coming knows how to make an entrance. Even the electronic sci-fi effects that kick-started its Black Box concert like some futuristic fanfare was loud enough to send vibrations through ...


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