Jazz Articles about John Crawford

About John Crawford

Album Review

John Crawford: Times and Tides

Read "Times and Tides" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
October 28, 2016

For his second album British pianist/composer John Crawford continues his love of Latin American and Spanish flamenco music, while also incorporating fresh new influences. Crawford's opening original “Blurred" shares a Brazilian heritage with the cover of Antonio Carlos Jobim's “Once I Loved" that follows it. Guitarist Guillermo Hill makes an immediate impression on nylon-string guitar: he's an effective foil to Crawford's piano. The Jobim tune also features sultry vocalist Linley Weir and saxophonist Duncan Lamont Snr. “Solea por ...

Album Review

John Crawford: Ulia River of Time

Read "Ulia River of Time" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 24, 2013

Of all nature's wonders, the river is the one that can most readily encapsulate the passage of time in very human terms. In just a few miles a river moves from the first tentative steps of childhood to the brash, energetic, movements of youth and the meanderings of middle age before it disappears in its old age into the infinity of the ocean. It's a sobering thought. Ulia River Of Time, from British pianist John Crawford, moves part of the ...