Jazz Articles about Barry Guy

About Barry Guy

Album Review

Trevor Watts / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez: The First Touch

Read "The First Touch" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 29, 2026

Trevor Watts and Barry Guy's near 60-year musical acquaintance yields an immediacy that continues undiminished on The First Touch. Recorded live in Poland in 2025 with drummer Ramon Lopez, a frequent cohort of the bassist, the seven tracks capture a trio whose empathy is matched by its appetite for risk. Although Watts' saxophones and Guy's bass naturally define the conversation, Lopez exerts a similarly decisive influence, propelling the performance through abrupt shifts of density, register and momentum. In ...

Album Review

Simon Rose, et al.: One Voice

Read "One Voice" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 17, 2026

What is more American than jazz? Historians generally agree that the music was born in New Orleans, forged from African musical traditions, European harmony and Caribbean rhythms. Alongside jazz, baseball and basketball are among America's great cultural inventions. Yet today, none of these belongs solely to the United States. Japan captured the imagination of baseball fans before Venezuela won the 2026 World Baseball Classic, while the NBA has recently been defined by international stars such as Greece's Giannis Antetokounmpo, Serbia's ...

Year in Review

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè
December 29, 2025

Anche quest'anno la scena statunitense del jazz più avanzato si è rivelata particolarmente ricca e competitiva. In questa liste di fine anno, però, ho voluto dare spazio anche ad alcuni dischi emblematici del panorama europeo, da sempre vitale e autentico, segnalando in particolare un protagonista storico come Barry Guy, anche perché nel corso del 2025 ho avuto il privilegio di ascoltarlo due volte dal vivo. Con rammarico ho dovuto escludere le produzioni del jazz italiano, pur in presenza di uscite ...

Year in Review

Libero Farnè's Best Jazz Albums of 2025

by Libero Farnè
December 27, 2025

Once again this year, the most forward-looking strand of the U.S. jazz scene has proven to be especially rich and compelling. In my list, however, I have tried to make room for a number of emblematic releases from the European scene, which remains consistently vital and authentic. In this spirit, I chose to highlight a historic figure such as Barry Guy, also because in the course of 2025 I had the privilege of hearing him live on two occasions.

Live Review

Barry Guy e Maya Homburger a Parma Jazz Frontiere

by Libero Farnè
October 14, 2025

Barry Guy--Maya Homburger Ape Parma Museo Parma Jazz Frontiere 2025 -"Una stanza per Caterina" 12 ottobre 2025 Possono passare anni, decenni senza avere l'occasione di ascoltare dal vivo un personaggio unico come Barry Guy. Quest'anno, in Italia, mi è capitato di incontrare in due diversi appuntamenti lo straordinario compositore, contrabbassista e performer britannico. Se in marzo, al festival di Bergamo, il collaudato duo con la pianista catalana Jordina Millà ha profuso un'improvvisazione tesissima in un ...

Album Review

Zlatko Kaućić: Zlatko Kaučič@70 - Inklings

Read "Zlatko Kaučič@70 - Inklings" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
August 25, 2025

Per celebrare il settantesimo compleanno di Zlatko Kaučič (di cui si parla nella recente intervista), avvenuto nel 2023, l'etichetta con cui il batterista sloveno ha pubblicato diversi suoi lavori negli ultimi anni, Fundacja Słuchaj, ha presentato questo cofanetto di quattro CD che documentano altrettanti concerti, tre dei quali registrati in occasione di diverse edizioni del Brda Contemporary Music Festival, ideato e diretto dall'artista e che quest'anno taglierà il traguardo dei quindici anni. I concerti vedono Kaučič assieme ad ...

Radio & Podcasts

Barry Guy, Jaleel Shaw, Linda May Han Oh & Zoh Amba

by Maurice Hogue
July 28, 2025

English avant-garde bassist Barry Guy is considered one of the finest in any musical genre and his compositional work is equally regarded. One of his signature pieces is “Harmos," and you will hear that as performed by the London Jazz Composers Orchestra recorded live in Krakow Poland. Saxophonist Jaleel Shaw's new Painter Of The Invisible provides a powerful tribute to Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old African American boy who was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer in November 2014 ...