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Johnny Hunter

Named by Jazzwise as an "artist to watch", Johnny Hunter is a Manchester-based drummer, composer and bandleader. He performs his own music across the UK most notably with the Johnny Hunter Quartet, having been recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3, and appearing at such esteemed venues as Ronnie Scott’s, the Manchester Jazz Festival, Birmingham Jazzlines at Symphony Hall, and Liverpool International Jazz Festival, among many others. He also regularly tours across Europe as part of the UK-Swiss collaboration, MoonMot.

His compositional focus is in developing techniques for composing for improvisers; to make the most of their skills in interpreting the music whilst retaining a strong compositional identity. To develop these ideas, he formed the piano trio, Fragments, with their 2019 album described as an “imaginatively detailed and uncompromising diary of a virtuosic improv group” (John Fordham, Jazzwise).

Johnny Hunter / Mark Hanslip / Olie Brice: Divisions

by John Sharpe
January 5, 2024

Divisions might seem a strange choice of title for such a cohesive set. It is the name of a four-part suite written by drummer Johnny Hunter for this all British trio completed by bassist Olie Brice and tenor saxophonist Mark Hanslip. As well as his own dates, such as Pale Blue Dot (Northern Contemporary, 2020) for ...

A Consequence In Three Parts

By Johnny Hunter

Label: Efpi Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Emergence; Consequence I; Consequence II; Consequence III; Epilogue

Divisions

By Johnny Hunter

Label: Discus Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4.

Mark Hanslip

Born: October 22, 1979

Mark started out playing on the Birmingham jazz and improvised music scenes, working regularly in groups led by pianist Steve Tromans and altoist Chris Bowden. He was an early member of Hans Koller Ensemble, recording 2 CDs, and shortly after moving to London he co-founded the Loop Collective and became one of the busiest players on the capital's new jazz scene, working with groups including Nostalgia 77, Outhouse, Twelves, Jonathan Bratoeff Quartet and Keith Tippett. He has played at many major festivals and venues in the UK, Europe and US and has been broadcast several times on Resonance 104.4FM, BBC Radios 1 and 3, and on the internet

Daniel Carter, Chicago Edge Ensemble, & Charlotte Keeffe

by Maurice Hogue
October 25, 2023

Music on the edge prevails in this episode, highlighted by the ubiquitous multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, Chicago guitarist Dan Phillips and his Chicago Edge Ensemble, and a Polish/Spanish quintet that features guitarist Grzegorz Lesiak, trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz and the members of the Liba Villavecchia Trio. James Baldwin's works are the subject of a baldwin en transit, French ...

JD Parran and Mark Deutsch, Daniel Carter, & Irreversible Entanglements

by Maurice Hogue
October 2, 2023

California Street Sessions, a new duo recording by reed master JD Parran and bassist Mark Deutsch, is intriguing, particularly when consider the instrumentation: Parran plays a seldom-heard contralto clarinet while Deutsch plays the bazantar, a hybrid bass that he invented himself. The music's excellent too. Other new albums sampled this week come from Daniel Carter and ...

Vinny Golia, James Brandon Lewis & Eric Plaks

by Maurice Hogue
September 12, 2023

The full title to veteran California free jazz saxophonist and icon Vinny Golia's latest recording is very long (Even to This Day... Music for Orchestra and Soloists Movement Two: Syncretism: For The Draw but it pales in comparison to the length of the recording: 13.5 hours plus. Golia began he project before Covid. It features solo, ...

Port Of Saints

By Martin Archer

Label: Discus Music
Released: 2022

Winifred Atwell Revisited

Label: Efpi Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Black And White Rag; Roll Out The Barrel (Beer Barrel Polka); If You Knew Susie; Taboo; Boogie For Atwell; My Old Man (Said Follow The Van).