Jazz Articles about Mark Lockheart

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Mark Lockheart: Moving Air

by Bev Stapleton
September 30, 2005

The music scene in the UK notices jazz about once every ten years and then forgets the musicians thrust into the limelight quite unforgivingly. The recent Jazz Britannia series told the tale of Keith Tippett, extravagantly flying his Centipede band to Europe in the early '70s but reduced to picking potatoes by the 1980s. In the mid-1980s a young big band called Loose Tubes gained a high enough profile to be featured in a rare jazz concert at the BBC ...

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Trevor Warren: Disassembler

by Chris May
August 30, 2005

A lyrical and gently trippy album in which Trevor Warren--previously best known as leader of the world/jazz band Deva--brings together free improv, groove, and rock with music from India, the Middle East, and Africa. It whispers rather than shouts, and the prominent access-all-genres presence of saxophonist Mark Lockheart and drummer Seb Rochford gives it something of the flavour of Polar Bear in that group's more reflective moments.

Warren took the title Disassembler from Eric Dexler's book on nanotechnology, ...