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Paul Edis, Ezra Collective, Harry Connick, Jr., Strictly Smokin’ Big Band, And More
by Colin Muirhead
Featuring music by Paul Edis & Friends, Ezra Collective, Harry Connick, Jr., Laufey, Louise Dodds, Bugge Wesseltoft, the Kevin Brown Quintet, the Strictly Smokin' Big Band, and more. Playlist Paul Edis & Friends “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" from On Christmas Day (Self Released) 00:00 Ezra Collective “Joy to the World" from Joy to the World (Partisan Records) 05:28 Harry Connick, Jr. “It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" from What a Night! A Christmas Album (Columbia ...
Continue ReadingVasilis Xenopoulos Paul Edis Quartet: Feels Like Home
by Neil Duggan
The various meanings of home are the themes behind Feels Like Home--somewhere to belong to, a place to rejoin loved ones, a birthplace. This is the second album from Vasilis Xenopoulos and Paul Edis. They began playing together 20 years ago, when they both relocated to London to study. It follows on from A Narrow Escape (Paul Edis Music, 2016). Leading Greek saxophonist Xenopoulos is a flag-waver for straight-ahead jazz and can be found as co-leader of the ...
Continue ReadingJo Harrop & Paul Edis: When Winter Turns to Spring
by John Eyles
Although Jo Harrop had previously released albums such as Songs for the Late Hours (Lateralize, 2019) and Weathering the Storm (Lateralize, 2020), the release of The Heart Waits (Lateralize, 2021) was a quantum leap forward for the Durham-born vocalist, not least because the album included fewer covers and far more original material than before. Harrop has said of that breakthrough album, “I sent my first lyrics to [pianist] Paul Edis and we wrote “If I Knew," which became the key ...
Continue ReadingJo Harrop: The Heart Wants
by Richard J Salvucci
Is it the behind-the-beat feel Ms Harrop gets, even when she is not? Or perhaps it is in the phrasing? Somehow, she puts a listener in mind of Keely Smith, which is a good thing. There are some very talented jazz singers in the United Kingdom; Jo Harrop is certainly one of them. Here is a recording of loss and longing, and very well done it is. Much of the material Harrop presents in this recording, bluesy, mournful ...
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