Jazz Articles about Julian Siegel

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Julian Siegel Quartet At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
May 3, 2024

Julian Siegel Quartet Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland April 27, 2024 Johannes Weege, co-founder of German jazz club Doubletime had traveled all the way from Hamelin. Apart from Double Time, the medieval town is famed for the story of the Pied Piper, who lured the town's children away with his hypnotic music, after the elders had failed to pay him for ridding Hamelin of its rat population. The “piper" this Saturday evening was Julian Siegel, ...

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John McLaughlin: Liberation Time

Read "Liberation Time" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
July 17, 2021

Perhaps the biggest success of Liberation Time is that its title feels sincere and not ironic. Such a sentiment could have easily come out as a cute bit of wishful thinking under the restrictions of pandemic life. Being who he is, though, John McLaughlin inevitably finds the value and positivity even in this strange state of affairs. “The wonderful thing about music is that you put the headphones on and you are all in the same room," he says in ...

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Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra: Tales from the Jacquard

Read "Tales from the Jacquard" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
July 6, 2021

L'eredità orchestrale britannica, rappresentata dagli eclettici lavori di Mike Gibbs, Mike Westbrook, Django Bates e Colin Towns, si rinnova in questo brillante debutto da bandleader di Julian Siegel. Nato a Nottingham 55 anni fa, Siegel è uno dei massimi sassofonisti del Regno Unito, leader di un quartetto e sideman in molte formazioni orchestrali: da quelle dei citati Bates, Gibbs e Towns ad altre dirette da John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, John Dankworth e Stan Sulzmann. La ...

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Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra: Tales from the Jacquard

Read "Tales from the Jacquard" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 13, 2021

Reed player Julian Siegel has been an important part of the London jazz scene since the late 1990s, when he cofounded Partisans, a high-energy quartet completed by guitarist Phil Robson, bassist Thad Kelly and drummer Gene Calderazzo. The band is pretty much beyond category, although it is usually billed as jazz-rock. Unlike normative jazz-rock outfits, however, Partisans is anchored firmly in the acoustic tradition, Robson's plugged-in guitar aside. Also contrary to the jazz-rock norm, Partisans, as its name suggests, has ...

Album Review

Julian Siegel Quartet: Vista

by Roger Farbey
January 29, 2018

Julian Siegel is an in-demand and award-winning British saxophonist who teaches saxophone in the jazz department of London's Royal Academy of Music. This is his Quartet's follow-up to their London Jazz award-winning album Urban Theme Park (Basho Records). Although Siegel is no stranger to Whirlwind Recordings in his role as a member of Partisans who released Swamp on the label in 2014, this is his first album for Whirlwind as leader. “The Opener" with its memorable head achieves ...

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Emilia Markensson - Barry Green: And So It Goes...

Read "And So It Goes..." reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 21, 2012

Se mai vi imbatteste in questa cantante svedese non tirate diritto. Fermatevi ad ascoltarla. Emilia Mårkensson nasconde per ogni riccio dei suoi lunghi capelli una sorpresa. Ha incontrato a 15 anni il jazz. E non si è spaventata di certo. Lo ha affrontato con l'ingenuità della sua età, ma anche con il coraggio incosciente di chi non sa proprio di affrontare una montagna. Che si è dimostrata subito disponibile. Piattaforma di lancio le serate al ristorante di famiglia. Tra una ...

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Julian Siegel: Urban Theme Park

Read "Urban Theme Park" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 30, 2011

Una serie di riconoscimenti e premi da parte di pubblico e critica fa del sassofonista tenore inglese Julian Siegel un nome piuttosto conosciuto in patria. Con altri due connazionali e il batterista americano Gene Calderazzo (ma ormai stabilitosi dalle parti Londra) ha messo su un quartetto di tutto rispetto e firmato un disco che si pone fra i migliori dell'anno in corso. Muovendosi nell'ambito di un post-bop influenzato da nomi come Joe Zawinul o Wayne Shorter, Siegel ha modo di ...