Results for "Riaan Vosloo"

Riaan Vosloo

Jazz bassist, composer & conductor. Regularly collaborates with Benedic Lamdin on the various Nostalgia 77 projects.

Andrew Neil Hayes: Tenor Badness

by Chris May
January 9, 2023

Something big and wild and loud was stirring on the alternative British jazz scene around 2015, 2016. In London, high-voltage tenor sax and drums duo Binker and Moses made their debut album, as did jazz-rock power trio The Comet Is Coming. Meanwhile, in the west of the country, in the port city of Bristol, tenor saxophonist ...

For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers

By Andrew Neil Hayes

Label: Worm Discs
Released: 2021
Track listing: Screaming With The Light On; A Brief Moment; Give Me Back My Slippers; Moving With Speed; It’s About Ice Cream; Cold Shower; Shout Song; Wise Man Eames.

Run Logan Run: For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers

by Chris May
October 5, 2021

Tenor saxophone and drums albums have been at the heart of London's alternative jazz scene since its first stirrings around 2015. That year, saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd, then members of singer Zara McFarlane's backing band, started tossing riffs and beats back and forth to each other during pre-gig soundchecks. In ...

Kaz Simmons: Signs

by Bruce Lindsay
October 27, 2013

It's album number four from London-based singer and songwriter Kaz Simmons. It's called Signs. It deftly explores the fertile ground that encompasses jazz, folk and the quirkier end of '70s British psych-rock--and it's a joy. Simmons has slimmed down her band for Signs--a small but perfectly formed quartet share the musical honors, compared to ...

Examples of Twelves - Things Will Be

By Riaan Vosloo

Label: Impossible Ark Records
Released: 2011

Kaz Simmons: Dandelions

by Bruce Lindsay
August 31, 2011

Combining a voice of crystalline purity, a neat lyrical touch, some superb backing musicians and a few lushly romantic arrangements, Kaz Simmons' Dandelions has a gorgeous heart and a few twists and turns that surprise, delight and occasionally mystify by turn. This is Simmons' third album: the second on her own Fast Awake ...