Results for "Dave O'Brien"

Dave O'Brien

ALATI: Ascending The Morning

by John Sharpe
February 16, 2023

Although combining poetry and jazz can sometimes be as thankless as mixing oil and water, ALATI has come up with a near perfect formulation. On Ascending The Morning, the three piece band, led by Norwich-based trumpeter Chris Dowding and completed by vocalist Brigitte Beraha and pianist Dave O'Brien, sets to music eight nature-inspired poems by Oxford ...

Ascending The Morning

By Chris Dowding

Label: 33 Jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: Birdsong For Two Voices; Sea Poem; Seabird's Blessings; Woods etc; Sea Sonnet #1 In Water; Sea Sonnet #2 Beyond; Sea Sonnet #3 Incidental: Estuary Sonnet.

Kai Hoffman: Luckiest Girl Alive

by Bruce Lindsay
November 6, 2015

Kai Hoffman is the self-confessed Luckiest Girl Alive, or so this album would have it. She certainly sounds like a contender for the title across most of the 14 songs, crafting a definite and infectious feel-good atmosphere along with her quintet. Hoffman was raised in Boston but has been based on London for some ...

Man Overboard Quintet: Down In The Deep Deep Blue

by Bruce Lindsay
August 23, 2015

A rhythm section that would make even a half-decent front line sound great; a front line that would enhance any ensemble; a bunch of great, sometimes neglected, songs with catchy tunes and quirky, image-laden lyrics. Surely, it's all just a wonderful dream? Nope, it isn't. It's Down In The Deep, Deep Blue, album number two from ...

Quadraceratops: Quadraceratops

by Bruce Lindsay
October 7, 2014

It's a question that's puzzled and divided jazz fans and critics alike, since before Louis Armstrong left New Orleans. There's been no sign of resolution and the dissent continues as the jazz world wrestles with this thorniest of debates. Just what is the best-est dinosaur ever? The music on this self-titled debut provides the answer--it's the ...

The Basin Street Brawlers: It's Tight Like That

by Bruce Lindsay
May 20, 2014

It's Tight Like That! is the debut release from the Basin Street Brawlers. Self-styled “purveyors of hot jazz"--indeed, with laudable hubris, “London's own master exponents of hot jazz"--the Basin Street Brawlers hark back to a bygone age, when sharp suits were de rigueur and bands that failed to get their audiences dancing would soon be excluded ...