Jazz Articles about Matthew Bourne

About Matthew Bourne

Album Review

Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne: Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Volume 2

Read "Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Volume 2" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 13, 2024

In the enchanting realm of musical collaboration, Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Volume 2 emerges as a tantalizing sequel to their inaugural rendezvous. This second installment in their creative escapade not only builds upon their initial fusion of jazz and electronic experimentation but also pushes the boundaries of sonic exploration with an audacious flair. Matthew Bourne, the maestro of keys, gracefully pirouettes between piano and Memory Moog, effortlessly blurring the lines between foreground and background. Each ensemble member, like ...

Album Review

Shiver & Matthew Bourne: Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Volume 1

Read "Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Volume 1" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 2, 2024

This compelling collaboration merges the distinctive styles of two extraordinary artists: the trio Shiver and acoustic-electric keyboardist Matthew Bourne. The album is a mesmerizing journey through diverse musical landscapes, blending electronic elements with jazz influences innovatively and refreshingly.The tracks on this album emphasize an impressive range of sonic textures and experimental sounds. Shiver's mastery of electronic music production intertwines seamlessly with Matthew Bourne's unique approach to jazz, resulting in an entrancing fusion of disparate sounds and styles. The ...

Album Review

World Sanguine Report: Skeleton Blush

Read "Skeleton Blush" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 27, 2020

Don't be fooled by the appearance of “sanguine" in the band name. World Sanguine Report is not a band given to gentle optimism, or relaxed acceptance of whatever situation it's in. Look instead to the meaning of the word in heraldic terms—blood red. Skeleton Blush is filled with hard-edged, powerful and uncompromising songs, an album that fits neatly into 2020's singular experience: which makes bandleader and composer Andrew Plummer appear remarkably prescient, as the album was recorded in 2012.

Album Review

Nightports w/Matthew Bourne: Nightports

Read "Nightports" reviewed by Gareth Thompson

by Gareth Thompson
March 8, 2018

The night he was named Perrier Young Jazz Musician 2001, pianist Matthew Bourne gave a performance that rather set out his stall. Using stillness and eruptions in the mode of Ran Blake, with soundtrack samples from Willy Wonka, Bourne played like a man possessed. Since then he's left few tones unturned in the search for new auras. Nightports is a series from UK-based The Leaf Label, where only sounds produced by the featured musician can be used. Most ...

Live Review

Bourne / Kane / Davis: Manchester, UK, April 12, 2013

by Ian Patterson
May 1, 2013

Matthew Bourne, Dave Kane and Steve DavisRhythm Changes: Rethinking Jazz Cultures ConferenceMedia City UKSalford Quays, Manchester, EnglandApril 12, 2013Watching three improvising musicians perform in front of a hundred or so jazz academics felt a little akin to watching a gallery of chief surgeons observing an unusual operation, although the only commentary during the one-hour performance took the form of a handful of tweets. The performance by keyboardist/cellist Matthew Bourne, drummer Steve Davis and ...

Album Review

Matthew Bourne: Montauk Variations

Read "Montauk Variations" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 18, 2012

Montauk Variations è il terzo album in solo del pianista Matthew Bourne. Il primo in studio (dopo il debutto con “For John Zorn & Mike Osborne" del 2001 e “The Molde Concert" del 2007), registrato a Montauk, in cui il prolifico improvvisatore britannico si trova davvero solo con il suo piano. Operazione complessa per uno navigato come Bourne, che poteva dare frutti ben più cervellotici, e che ci regala invece una musica davvero bella. Non è azzardato pensare che le ...

Album Review

Matthew Bourne: Montauk Variations

Read "Montauk Variations" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
April 2, 2012

Still on the shy side of 40, British pianist Matthew Bourne has accomplished more, in a relatively short time, than many do in a lifetime. Bourne has leaned farther to the left for most of his career, experimenting in both acoustic and electric environs with a free-thinking approach informed, to some extent, by Annette Peacock, that unclassifiable singer/writer responsible for some of pianist Paul Bley's most compelling composition-based music, and who was the subject of a two-disc tribute by pianist ...