Jazz Articles about Gary Hammond

About Gary Hammond

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Multi-award-winning guitarist Deirdre Cartwright returns 15 years after her previous release with Organik. Far from relaxing in the intervening years, she has been collaborating widely, performing with the Alison Rayner Quintet, winning the public vote for Best Guitarist at the 2019 British Jazz Awards and authoring several guitar tuition books. The album points towards the guitarists who have been major influences on her, alongside new original material. She is joined by Pete Whittaker on Hammond organ and Gary ...

Album Review

Barb Jungr and her Trio featuring Simon Wallace: Hallelujah On Desolation Row: The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen

Read "Hallelujah On Desolation Row: The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
March 2, 2025

In 1984, Barb Jungr's first album Bouquet of Barbs (Magnet) was released soon after she had turned thirty; she was credited with writing eight of that album's twelve tracks. In 2025, Jungr's album Hallelujah On Desolation Row: The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen was released. Needless to say, Jungr did not write any of the tracks on this album, though some people may be taken aback by the album's subtitle and argue that it only contains some of ...