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Trish Clowes: gli album che sto ascoltando

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 20, 2022

1. Chico Buarque, Construção (Philips, 1971). È una nuova scoperta, benchè l'album sia del 1971. Dategli un ascolto, geniale! 2. Joe Henderson, Double Rainbow (Verve, 1995). Sto ascoltando parecchia musica brasiliana ultimamente e ciò mi ha fatto recuperare questo bellissimo album. Tutte le strade portano a Joe Henderson, collega tutti i punti tra i grandi sassofonisti. 3. Charlie Haden, Paul/Motian, Geri Allen Etudes (Soul Note, 1987). La pianista e compositrice ...

Album Review

Trish Clowes: A View with a Room

Read "A View with a Room" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 17, 2022

My Iris è un quartetto guidato dalla sassofonista inglese Trish Clowes giunto con A View with a Room alla quarta fatica discografica. Nato in tempo di lockdown, con riferimenti, a partire dal titolo, alle criticità provocate dalla pandemia, sviluppato attraverso live streams e pubblicato dalla prestigiosa Greenleaf di Dave Douglas, A View With a Room conferma Clowes come una delle voci più interessanti della effervescente scena britannica, incarnandone il volto gentile e raffinato. La sonorità sia al ...

Album Review

MY IRIS: MY IRIS Live!

Read "MY IRIS Live!" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
April 30, 2020

Unable to undertake its scheduled April tour due to COVID 19, MY IRIS, the quartet led by saxophonist Trish Clowes, releases this live recording culled from gigs in Belfast and Galway in October 2019. Captured on Zoom recorder, Clewes has done an admirable job in producing a presentable sound on this digital-download, Bandcamp release. More importantly, in capturing for posterity one of the UK's leading jazz quartets in such fine form, MY IRIS Live! is an important document, and perhaps ...

Interview

Trish Clowes: Sounding Colors, Playing With Gravity

by Ian Patterson
September 12, 2019

If it hadn't been that day, twenty some years ago when the young Trish Clowes first felt the pull of the tenor saxophone, it would surely have been another. Barely in her teens at the time, Shropshire-born saxophonist and award-winning composer Clowes already played piano, clarinet and sang when she went to see her Dad, an amateur trumpeter, play with the local big band. “When I heard a tenor saxophone feature on “In a Sentimental Mood" I thought ...

Album Review

Trish Clowes: Ninety Degrees Gravity

Read "Ninety Degrees Gravity" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 24, 2019

Trish Clowes' stock has risen steadily since her debut, Tangent (Basho Records, 2010), which featured jazz quartet and, on several tracks, orchestra. That record announced a promising and ambitious voice, one equally at home with jazz and classical colors. Since then the saxophonist has continued to explore the meeting of jazz, voice and strings, attracting a growing chorus of admirers along the way. With the critically acclaimed My Iris (Basho Records, 2017), Clowes opted for a more stripped down, jazz ...

Live Review

Trish Clowes at Mermaid Arts Centre

by Ian Patterson
February 17, 2018

Trish Clowes Mermaid Arts Centre Bray, Ireland February 9, 2018 Almost five years had passed since saxophonist/composer Trish Clowes' only previous gig in Ireland, at the Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival 2013. Since then, Clowes has released a couple of well-received albums and was selected as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist--a prestigious residency programme that recognizes talent deserving greater exposure. Clowes has also founded Emulsion, a collective-cum-annual festival dedicated to improvised ...

Album Review

Trish Clowes: My Iris

by Phil Barnes
April 12, 2017

There's an energy and a focus about this, Clowes fourth album for UK indie Basho records, that suggests a creative breakthrough. My Iris has kept that restlessness and love of music irrespective of genre apparent in Clowes earlier work, but feels a better constructed programme where the stylistic shifts are organic developments that blend naturally into the set-up of the compositions. Jazz is the core, but the breadth that comes from listening widely lifts this above the herd.On ...