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Jay Phelps

Trumpeter and Artist, Jay Phelps is a Vancouver-born Canadian with an instantly recognisable warm and projecting tone. He was tutored by the city’s top Jazz and Classical trumpeters and distinguished himself early on as the youngest band-leader in the Vancouver International Jazz Festival’s history. In 1999 aged 17, Jay moved to London, determined to immerse himself in the jazz scene and immediately attracted the notice of Gary Crosby (Dune records), who offered him work with Jazz Jamaica in 2002 and the opportunity to be a 'Tomorrow’s Warrior'. Citing Louis Armstrong, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown and Miles Davis as his early influences, Jay went on to create and co-lead the UK Jazz sensation Empirical

Reflections

By Alina Bzhezhinska

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Soul Vibrations; For Carrol; Fire; Reflections; Afro Blue; Alabama; African Flower; Paris Sur Le Toit (instrumental); Sans End; Action Line; Paris Sur Le Toit (rap and vocal); Meditation.

Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective: Reflections

by Chris May
September 20, 2022

In an inspired piece of programming, London's Barbican Centre presented the then virtually unknown harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and her quartet as one of the support bands on its November 18, 2017 one-nighter A Concert for Alice and John, a show headlined by Pharoah Sanders. It would be an exaggeration to say Bzhezhinska stole the show (see ...

Perihelion

By Guido Spannocchi

Label: audioguido records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1.Uphill Blues 2.Key Drop 3.Cafezinho 4.Strutting in Six 5.A walk in Yoyogi Park 6.Das ist die Frage 7.187 South 8.Midweek 3:30am Club Tune 9.Nighttime in Soho

K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us

By Xhosa Cole

Label: Stoney Lane Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Zoltan; Blues Connotation; Manhattan; Played Twice; On A Misty Night; What’s New; Untitled Boogaloo.

Nuove vocalist all’orizzonte

by Angelo Leonardi
March 19, 2019

Nuove vocalist crescono. Da qualche anno, sia nel jazz che nella black popular music, sono emerse vocalist di talento, prossime a imporsi negli anni a venire. In questa fase storica di globalizzazione spinta anche il canto jazz è entrato in una dimensione globale. Aumentano le possibilità per tutti di apprendere le forme espressive delle musiche afroamericane ...

Jay Phelps at the Harrow Arts Centre

by Barry Witherden
July 25, 2017

Jay Phelps Harrow Arts Centre Hatch End, London July 7, 2017 Harrovians don't know what they're missing. The Harrow Arts Centre, tucked away in Hatch End off the teeming Uxbridge Road in London's north-western suburb, has an adventurous booking policy--most such enterprises seem unwilling to recognise any jazz ...

Phil Robson: Jazz For Babies - The Guitar Album

by Bruce Lindsay
May 16, 2013

Just what is the target demographic for a typical jazz album? Twenty to thirty year-olds? Forty to sixty year-olds? Anyone with enough spare cash to buy a copy? This series of recordings from bassist Michael Janisch makes its target audience perfectly clear both in the title--Jazz For Babies--and in the bottom left of the rather snazzy ...

Soweto Kinch: The Legend Of Mike Smith

by Bruce Lindsay
February 21, 2013

Once upon a time the C-word was in common usage. It isn't heard so much these days, but the older generation mustn't be lulled into a false sense of security, because the younger generation remains perfectly capable of using the word on occasions. This is one of those occasions, because Soweto Kinch's The Legend Of Mike ...

The JazzLife UK Gilded Butterfly Awards 2011

by Bruce Lindsay
December 15, 2011

As Noddy Holder and the mighty Slade remind us every year, “It's CHRISTMAAAAAAS." With the Yuletide festivities comes the annual avalanche of End Of Year lists, Best Of awards and Grammy nominations. This year, JazzLife UK adds its own awards to the list: the inaugural JazzLife UK Gilded Butterfly Awards (or GBs). In line with the ...