Jazz Articles about Dudley Phillips

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Steve Lodder: 2 sorts of 3

by Neil Duggan
December 4, 2025

Pianist Steve Lodder's album 2 sorts of 3 was originally envisaged as two separate projects, one acoustic and one electronic. He ultimately bought them together to create a single release that bridges both plugged and unplugged worlds. Lodder utilizes two contrasting lineups, on the electronic side, he is joined by his long-term collaborators; Dudley Phillips on guitar and electric and double basses, alongside drummer Nic France. On the acoustic side he works with Freddie Jensen on double bass and drummer ...

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Dreamweavers: Woven In Time

by Neil Duggan
March 26, 2025

The group Dreamweavers is the vision of two guitarists, one who acts as the lead player and the other who predominantly acts as producer, also adding lap steel guitar and mandocello (the baritone member of the mandolin family) to the musical mix. Woven In Time is their first release and the result of their ongoing collaboration. Chris Allard, the lead guitarist, studied jazz and classical guitar at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, receiving an honours degree ...

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Trevor Warren: Disassembler

by Chris May
August 30, 2005

A lyrical and gently trippy album in which Trevor Warren--previously best known as leader of the world/jazz band Deva--brings together free improv, groove, and rock with music from India, the Middle East, and Africa. It whispers rather than shouts, and the prominent access-all-genres presence of saxophonist Mark Lockheart and drummer Seb Rochford gives it something of the flavour of Polar Bear in that group's more reflective moments.

Warren took the title Disassembler from Eric Dexler's book on nanotechnology, ...