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James Mainwaring

Configuration

By John Law

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Kiss; And Them; Configuration; Scandinavian Lullaby; Processional; Jazzshh...; Disfigured Bass; Through A Glass Darkly; Complex City; These Rolling Clouds; The Kiss (Memory Of A Kiss).

John Law's Congregation: Configuration

by Bruce Lindsay
May 11, 2020

John Law's Congregation is a quartet led by British pianist and composer Law and completed by three musicians from the UK jazz scene--James Mainwaring (Roller Trio), Ashley John Long and Billy Weir--who are part of what Brian Morton's sleeve notes calls the “new generation players." Law has been performing since the 1980s, releasing over ...

Roller Trio: Fracture

by Phil Barnes
January 12, 2015

Fracture is an intriguing title for this follow up record to Roller Trio's eponymous Mercury nominated debut from 2012. Recent interview comments spoke of how little that nomination changed their financial situation, so it is tempting to read the title as a reference to the band's relationship with the music industry--after all the album is also ...

Space F!ght: Sci-Fi

by Bruce Lindsay
June 4, 2014

Question: what inspires a band called Space F!ght to create a recording called Sci-Fi? Answer: the works of classic science fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov. Question: will such inspirations result in music that's worth listening to, music that excites, that bears repeated listening, that's enjoyable? Answer: yes. Radek Rudnicki, Space F!ght's leader, composer ...