Jazz Articles about Dee Byrne

About Dee Byrne

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Loz Speyer's Inner Space: Live in Leipzig

Read "Live in Leipzig" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 8, 2024

Loz Speyer, a British trumpeter and composer known for his inventive blend of jazz traditions and free improvisation, leads the quintet Inner Space through its inaugural release. With a background spanning a wide range of influences within the jazz realm, Speyer channels these into compositions that allow each band member room for dynamic improvisation. In Live in Leipzig, recorded in the historic city during a well-received concert, Speyer's ensemble delivers a set marked by a delicate balance between ...

Album Review

MoonMot: Going Down The Well

Read "Going Down The Well" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
April 10, 2020

Six musicians from the UK and Switzerland, with a strong background in improvisation and a talent for mixing acoustic and electronic instrumentation, creating tunes which move from the gentle, Rhodes-led, intro to “35 Years" and the bass-sax interplay which opens “Threnody Of The English Polity" to the raucous baritone sax of the title track—that is MoonMot on Going Down The Well. The sextet formed in 2017 when saxophonists Dee Byrne (Entropi, Deemer) and Cath Roberts (Sloth Racket, Favourite ...

Album Review

Dee Byrne's Entropi: Moment Frozen

Read "Moment Frozen" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
September 19, 2017

Whilst studying for her Masters at London's Trinity Laban Music Conservatoire of Music and Dance, altoist and composer Dee Byrne met her co-frontliner, trumpeter André Cannière where he's a visiting jazz tutor. Moment Frozen is the follow- up to Entropi's debut album New Era, released in June 2015 on the F-IRE Presents label. The collective improvisational opening to “Stelliferous Era," used as a tension-building device, rapidly gives way to a release with a piano and bass driven theme, ...