Jazz Articles about Michael Garrick

About Michael Garrick

Album Review

The Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet: Warm Up

by Chris May
February 3, 2023

British modern jazz was gaining new confidence in itself in 1965, when Warm Up, subtitled The Complete Live At The Highwayman 1965, was recorded. It needed to be. As Simon Spillett writes in his liner notes, at the time “British jazzmen bravely fought a battle on two fronts, one against the stranglehold of American influence, the other against the Beatles." British jazzwomen, of course, were fighting on three fronts; but we can discuss that another time. A fourth front, fought ...

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Multiple Reviews

Michael Garrick: Black Marigolds and October Woman

by A. Henkin
May 28, 2006

Michael Garrick Black Marigolds Vocalion 2005 Michael Garrick October Woman Vocalion 2005 British musicians like pianist Michael Garrick inhabit the grey area between the energetic, if somewhat derivative realms of Johnny Dankworth and Tubby Hayes that preceded them and the much more advanced, if undervalued, contributions of the John Surman, Keith Tippett and Spontaneous ...

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Album Review

Michael Garrick Sextet with Norma Winstone: The Heart is a Lotus

Read "The Heart is a Lotus" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
August 18, 2005

With a resurgence of interest in what many call the “Golden Years of British jazz--the mid-'60s through early '70s--labels like Vocalion are helping to fill in the blanks on the period when a specifically British sound began asserting itself, in contrast to the America-centric music of prior decades. While the music of emergent artists like saxophonist John Surman and trumpeter Ian Carr exhibits clear stylistic precedents from across the pond, there's also something indefinably British there, too--perhaps a hint of ...