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The Celtic Wheel Of The Year Suite

By Josephine Davies

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Eos (summer solstice); Lammas; Mabon; Samhain; Gaia’s Breath (winter solstice); Imbolc; Ostara; Beltane.

Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise In The Hold

by Don Ball
September 10, 2025

Yazz Ahmed's music has focused on combining her love of jazz with her Bahrani heritage since her first recording in 2011, and with her release, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories, 2025), she adds a new component: voice. With lyrics in both English and Arabic, Ahmed uses stories and music from her childhood in ...

Josephine Davies & The Ensō Ensemble: The Celtic Wheel Of The Year Suite

by Angelo Leonardi
March 31, 2025

Sassofonista e compositrice britannica, nota per il trio Satori, Josephine Davies debutta con un ricco e raffinato progetto orchestrale, che presenta la sua suite in otto parti ispirata alle feste stagionali celtiche delle isole Shetland. “Dopo aver composto diversi pezzi per orchestra jazz" --ha detto Josephine--"ispirata da un trasferimento in campagna durante il lockdown, ...

Unfinished Business

By Chris Sansom

Label: Spark Label
Released: 2024
Track listing: Life And Times (Of A Perfect Stranger) (1. Formative Years. 2. Ankle Deep In Dust. 3. Midlife Crisis. 4. It's Weird Being The Same Age As Old People.); Lugubrious Boots; Ludwig's Van.

Josephine Davies: Satori: Weatherwards

by Chris May
October 31, 2024

From an international perspective, the best kept secret in British jazz could be tenor and soprano saxophonist Josephine Davies. She first recorded in 2000 as a member of Crissy Lee's Jazz Orchestra, a fifteen piece all-woman band who made one album, the self-produced ...With Body And Soul. (Actually, there was one male in the lineup, trumpeter ...

Perfect Stranger: Unfinished Business

by Neil Duggan
October 14, 2024

There cannot be too many artists who release music 50 years after composing it. In 1974, Chris Sansom wrote six tracks, the highlight being a four-movement piece, echoing the structure of a classical symphony but taking influences from the progressive rock of the time to create something outside conventional jazz. He formed a band to play ...

Women in Jazz Media: Kim Cypher

by B.D. Lenz
March 25, 2024

It is rare that a jazz musician is just a jazz musician. In order to survive you almost always have to have another gig, teach, or work in some auxiliary role to your music life. A musician who exemplifies this diversification is Kim Cypher, a saxophonist/vocalist based in the UK. Besides being a musician and composer, ...

Yazz Ahmed: The Inclusive Saboteuse

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 5, 2020

Pretty much from the beginning of her career, trumpet and flugelhorn player Yazz Ahmed has been intent on sabotaging the walls and fences that divide the jazz world, championing an inclusive vision in which Arabic traditions blend seamlessly with loops and electronics, and rock and pop can offer jazz plenty of inspiration. Two years ...

My Time

By Anna Brooks

Label: Red Kite Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Karmarama; Already There; Beans' Dreams; By Twelve; Dink No Dink; Bad Hair Day; For My Sins; My Time