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137: Strangeness Oscillation
by Chris May
More comebacks than Sinatra? Well, not really, given that this is the first one, but the return of the beyond-category British saxophonist and flautist Larry Stabbins after an eleven-year absence is headline news. In 2013, Stabbins (a.k.a. Stonephace) very publicly announced that he was beyond disgusted with the music business in general and the jazz business in particular and that he was leaving London and returning to the West Country where he was born and bred. We would be hearing ...
Continue ReadingGet The Blessing: Pallett
by Neil Duggan
Many artists describe their music as aural paintings. Bristol band Get The Blessing take that idea to the next level with their seventh studio album, Pallett. The album cover features a paint by numbers drawing of a wooden pallet to colour in (the limited-edition vinyl comes complete with wax crayons) and all the tracks are named after colours from an imaginary colour chart. Jazz should be fun after all. Get The Blessing are not easy to categorise, ...
Continue ReadingGet The Blessing: OCDC
by AAJ Italy Staff
OCDC è il classico album che farà irritare i puristi. E i Get the Blessing, quartetto di Bristol qui alla loro terza prova discografica, si capisce subito che si divertono un mondo a sovvertire le regole del mainstream con un jazz iperitmico, venato di rock e trascinato dalle tipiche e melodiche evoluzioni dei fiati - tromba e sassofoni - che hanno da sempre contraddistinto il British Jazz d'antan. Prendiamo, ad esempio, la softmachiniana “Low Earth Orbit" che sembra uscita da ...
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