Jazz Articles about Huw Warren

About Huw Warren

Album Review

Having built a strong reputation with London-based eight-piece Ankora, saxophonist Mali Sheard steps into the spotlight with her debut album, Hayfever. It is a release that will do that reputation no harm at all, offering a beguiling blend of jazz, folk and groove, seamlessly integrated into Sheard's distinctive improvisational style. A graduate of Tomorrow's Warriors jazz talent development organisation and the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Gary Crosby OBE and Nikki Iles, Sheard makes full use ...

Album Review

Sue Rynhart: Say Pluto

Read "Say Pluto" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
November 30, 2024

Traditionalist or avant-garde provocateur? Singer or poet? Dubliner Sue Rynhart is all these things and more, and therein lies her appeal. Her debut, Crossings (Songs For Voice And Double Bass) (Self Produced, 2015), an alluring duo recording with Dan Bodwell, earned Rynhart broad critical acclaim for its hybrid folk, indie pop, spoken word and jazz/improvised spirit. Signals (Mrsuesue Records, 2017) added new textures to similar ingredients, with mbira, recorders, zither and Francesco Turrisi's lute and frame drum ornamenting Rynhart's strikingly ...

Album Review

Huw Warren: Choro Choro Choro

Read "Choro Choro Choro" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
July 13, 2024

The Welsh pianist Huw Warren is not a household name--though he ought to be--so a little background to Choro Choro Choro is appropriate, just in case the album is taken to have effervesced out of nowhere. In the 1990s, Warren was co-leader of the singular London quartet Perfect Houseplants. The group's half-dozen albums positioned them approximately as the small-group inheritors of the unpredictable mantle of the city's maverick 1980s big band Loose Tubes, of which the Houseplants' ...

Interview

Huw Warren: Global Music from a Local Perspective

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 20, 2018

Welsh pianist and composer, Huw Warren, has been an important voice on the British jazz scene for many years. With a seemingly endless appetite for music, Warren has both been delving into Brazilian music with singer Maria Pia de Vito and played ethereal folk-inspired jazz music with another singer, June Tabor, in the trio Quercus. He has also worked as Tabor's musical director for many years. Aside from his many gigs as a sideman, Warren is teaching ...

Album Review

Quercus: June Tabor - Iain Ballamy - Huw Warren

Read "June Tabor - Iain Ballamy - Huw Warren" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 18, 2013

Anche se non nuova alla cosa, solo alla ECM poteva venire in mente una scelta che apparirebbe superflua ma che ovviamente a nessun produttore discografico viene mai in mente: far incontrare il delicato mondo del folk storico britannico con i sapori del jazz minimalista e da camera. Il risultato? E come dovrebbe essere se non emozionale, intenso, sensibile, appassionato, spontaneo, espressivo, rispettoso, avvolgente, poetico, creativo... ho raccolto in una riga le più usate aggettivazioni con le quali diversi colleghi della ...

Extended Analysis

June Tabor / Iain Ballamy / Huw Warren: Quercus

by John Kelman
May 28, 2013

Awaiting release for more than seven years, Quercus is not the first time ECM has branched into the realm of traditional British music combined with jazz improvisation. Unlike the rawer and more unfettered freedom of producer Steve Lake's inspired pairing of singer Robin Williamson with improvisers including violist Mat Maneri, bassist Barre Phillips and Swedish traditionalist Ale Möller on recordings like The Iron Stone (2007), however, Quercus is a more refined, elegant and dark live recording that pairs renowned British ...

Extended Analysis

June Tabor, Huw Warren, Iain Ballamy: Quercus

by John Eyles
April 14, 2013

June Tabor has been superb for so long that it is easy to take her for granted as England's finest female traditional folk singer. Despite holding that status for many years, she has never seemed to rest on her laurels. Alongside the traditional folk songs on which she built her reputation, Tabor has a repertoire broad enough to include John Lennon's “In My Life," Lou Reed's “All Tomorrow's Parties," Elvis Costello's “Shipbuilding" and Joy Division's “Love Will Tear Us Apart," ...