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George Haslam - Harry Beckett - Stefano Pastor - Richard Leigh Harris - Steve Kershaw: Holywell Session Live in Oxford
by AAJ Italy Staff
A quanto pare la Holywell Music Room di Oxford è una sala dall'acustica ottima, non nuova ad ospitare concerti di musica improvvisata, come questo che è stato registrato il 17 settembre 2006. A tale proposito afferma Stefano Pastor: “Ricordo che non facemmo prove del suono prima del concerto, in quanto si tratta di uno spazio acusticamente perfetto, e non definimmo per nulla il programma; avremmo solo improvvisato per tutto il concerto". È appunto il violinista italiano, approdato per la prima ...
read moreHarry Beckett: Warm Smiles / Themes For Fega.
by Hrayr Attarian
Although Europe has produced many an accomplished and innovative jazz musician, a great number of ultra-talented ones remain in obscurity. Vocalion puts the spotlight on one such forgotten genius, British trumpeter Harry Beckett. The double CD combines the latter two of his three sessions for RCA; which were not only his debut recordings as a leader but also remain the most critically acclaimed of all his work. Each CD is, in fact, a straight reissue of each album: 1971's Warm ...
read moreHarry Beckett: Wide Open Roads
by Nic Jones
As discussed in the last article in this series, the dissemination of jazz on record, together with the abilities of musicians from outside of the USA, ensured that the jazz language was relatively quickly assimilated on a large scale. So far as the British jazz scene was concerned, the Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reece, born January 5, 1931, was making an impact by the mid-1950s, and just over a decade later both the Canadian Kenny Wheeler and Reece's fellow West Indian ...
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