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Michael J McEvoy

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Michael is an award-winning composer with many film, television and pop music credits to his name including the score for Richard Loncraine’s feature Finding Your Feet starring Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall and Celia Imrie. Other projects of note include the evocative jazz score to the acclaimed BBC/PBS documentary Jazz Ambassadors and Churchill and the Movie Mogul for BBCFour. Michael’s composing credits also include Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles starring Zac Efron and Clare Danes and indie feature Forget Me Not (Winner London Independent Film Festival) starring Tobias Menzies

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The Jazz Ambassadors (Original Score)

Label: Rezzonator Music Limited
Released: 2018
Track listing: Ole Miss, State Department (Brass only), State Department (Rhythm Section only), No Other World (Motherless), No Justice for Emmett Till (trumpet), A Different Kind of Diplomacy, Bandung Conference, God's Band, Valley of the Kings, Will Change Ever Come, Voice of America, Trouble in Little Rock, No Other World (Original Version), Mourning Song, For Patrice Lumumba, State Department, Dark Russian Eyes, New Life, New Day, A Different Kind of Diplomacy (sax solo), Reflections, The Jazz Ambassadors Theme.

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The Long Way Home

Label: Rezzonator Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: The Long Way Home; Dreams Dispersed; Silverlink Express; The Lamp On The Hill; A Lighter Shade Of Blue; Shadows Of The Truth; Stillness And Being; When I Get My Wings.

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Article: Album Review

Michael J McEvoy: The Long Way Home

Read "The Long Way Home" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Michael J McEvoy is something of a musical chameleon--a composer, instrumentalist and producer who's played a crucial role in many musical projects without grabbing the limelight. He's composed film soundtracks (including 2008's Me And Orson Welles), and worked as musician or producer with an extensive array of artists including Ian Dury, Sting, Scritti Politti, the Bee ...

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Silverlink Express

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Label: Rezzonator Music
Released: 2014
Duration: 3:18

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Michael J Mc Evoy's "The Long Way Home" Available March 10th

Michael J Mc Evoy's "The Long Way Home" Available March 10th

This has got instant appeal. And it’s over far too soon. With a melodic 1970s vibe to start with on the title track opener and Gerard Presencer’s bluesy horn commentary over a strong rhythm section of pianist McEvoy joined by Empirical bassist Tom Farmer and the Golden trio’s James Maddren this is the former musical director ...

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Block and Roll and All That Jazz

Read "Block and Roll and All That Jazz" reviewed by Sammy Stein


There are just a few bands that can fill a jazz venue as easily as they fill one more used to contemporary pop music, and it seems right to acknowledge one of the best jazz-influenced, long-lived and popular groups from the late '70s to the present day, The Blockheads. This band filled Ronnie Scott's and The ...

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Again, Too Soon

Label: Atlantis Quartet Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Meter Matrix; The Crave; Light Rail; Wait For Spring; Twenty80; Sundown for Dali; Wanderlust; The Cannonball.

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Atlantis Quartet: Again, Too Soon

Read "Again, Too Soon" reviewed by Aaron Basiliere


The compositional intensity found in the Minneapolis-based Atlantis Quartet's live performances in and around the Twin Cities have garnered it with praise as being one of the bands to watch on the mid-western modern jazz scene. Minnesota-area critics and fans alike have dubbed the foursome as “the most exciting band in town" and their assessment is ...


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