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Interview

Dave Stapleton: Edition Records Takes Flight

Read "Dave Stapleton: Edition Records Takes Flight" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Any discussion of successful independent jazz record labels of the twentieth century will readily encompass musical icons such as Blue Note, Impulse! and ECM. Cardiff-based Edition Records is already a likely contender for the same discussion applied to labels that have arisen in the 21st century, even though its first release didn't appear until 2008. A key figure in the success of the label is co-owner and Artistic Director Dave Stapleton, who also happens to be one of the label's ...

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Extended Analysis

Dave Stapleton: Flight

Read "Dave Stapleton: Flight" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Dave StapletonFlightEdition2012Dave Stapleton is a multi-tasker of Olympian energy and talent. That is not a new observation, but as the pianist and record company director's outputs increase, it bears repeating. As well as operating the Edition label, which has released 30 albums of immaculately-recorded British and European jazz since he founded it in 2008, Stapleton has maintained his own career as a musician. Flight is his seventh album for the label as ...

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Album Review

Dave Stapleton Quintet: Between the Lines

Read "Between the Lines" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La formazione è quella classica che più classica non si può: sezione ritmica più front-line con sax e tromba. Il quintetto è alla sua terza prova discografica e con una robusta attività concertistica alle spalle evidenzia un affiatamento davvero invidiabile, funzionando come organismo unico nel quale le varie individualità, pur brillando di luce propria, sono al servizio del progetto comune. Il leader, il pianista Dave Strapleton, creatore della Edition Records etichetta tra le più vivaci nella terra di Albione, è ...

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Album Review

Dave Stapleton Quintet: Between The Lines

Read "Between The Lines" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Leading a band while simultaneously recording other musicians for your own label is no easy feat, but it's one pianist Dave Stapleton is achieving with style. Between The Lines is the third disc by the feisty and engaging Dave Stapleton Quintet for Edition Records, whose catalogue includes well received albums by Polar Bear saxophonist Mark Lockheart, pianists Ivo Neame, Matthew Bourne, Keith Tippett and Tom Cawley, and Troyka, and is growing fast. Stapleton, who graduated from the Royal ...

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Album Review

Dave Stapleton: Catching Sunlight – Music for an Imaginary Film

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Pianista e compositore inglese in forte ascesa, Dave Stapleton nonostante la giovane età si è affermato già da qualche tempo nel Regno Unito grazie alla pubblicazione di diversi album da solista che hanno riscosso grande consenso di critica. Nelle note di copertina l'autore ci informa che Catching Sunlight gli era stato commissionato dal Lunar Saxophone Quartet ed era nato per 4 sassofoni e piano: durante la lavorazione s'è però reso necessario l'ampliamento ad altre voci che potessero dargli sufficienti colori ...

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Album Review

Dave Stapleton - Matthew Bourne: Dismantling the Waterfall - The Mill Session, Vol.1

Read "Dismantling the Waterfall - The Mill Session, Vol.1" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Lo dobbiamo confessare. Dopo la seconda recensione - la precedente riguardante Lost Something rivelava un piano trio formidabile: Bourne/Davis/Kane - ci siamo definitivamente innamorati della Edition Records, una piccola etichetta indipendente britannica che sta aprendo una finestra significativa su una scena, ai più ancora sconosciuta, di valenti improvvisatori d'oltremanica. Nel novero delle registrazioni di piano-duo, non certo abbondanti nella storia della musica improvvisata, questo Dismantling the Waterfall si distacca decisamente perché rifugge da qualsiasi forma di esibizionismo o di duello ...

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