Jazz Articles about Billy Bottle

About Billy Bottle

Album Review

Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam

Read "Unrecorded Beam" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 26, 2014

Uno scrittore/pensatore originale e decentrato come Henry David Toureau, un musicista altrettanto originale come Billy Bottle--multistrumentista alla corte di Mike Westbrook, sentimentalmente colluso con la Canterbury Scene -, un'etichetta d'avanguardia e intransigente come Leo Records, ed ecco servito Unrecorded Beam. Unrecorded Beam è il senso della vita visto attraverso la natura, i suoi ritmi, i suoi riti, i suoi misteri, le sue imprevedibilità. Bottle e la sua corte di musicanti sono abili nel costruire un album che ...

Album Review

Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam

Read "Unrecorded Beam" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 23, 2014

Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist Billy Bottle is the pianist for renowned big band leader Mike Westbrook and has performed with British progressive rock luminaries. His octet and guest artists incorporate jazz rock and folk with a splash of Indie pop on this beguiling set. It's outlined on eminent American author and transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau's poems, also providing the lyrical content for these vigorous and unequivocally hip compositions. The band spins an inspiring outlook with solid backbeats, wistful horns and ...