Jazz Articles about Partisans

Partisans: By Proxy

by Chris May
June 29, 2009

London band Partisans has been making the hair stand up on the back of audiences' necks with its supercharged collision of jazz and rock since 1996. By Proxy is the band's fourth album following the acclaimed Max (Babel, 2005), which was the most effective recreation of Partisans' ferocious live sound in the recording studio up to that date.

Max was a monster. By Proxy is even better. Like its predecessor, it conveys much of the impact of the ...

Partisans: Max

by Chris May
May 25, 2005

Longer established than their Babel label mates and fellow London radicals Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bear--and several light years closer to the straight-ahead tradition than either--in energy and attitude Phil Robson's and Julian Siegel's Partisans are very much on the same side of the barricades. Here, in their first album since '00's Sourpuss, they cook up another trademark shot of gritty bop and hard bop, early electric Miles, rock riffs and jam band grooves, a bona fide ain't broke and ...