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Eddie Parker's Airborn With Rob Luft: Airborn
by Neil Duggan
Trying to pin Eddie Parker's music to a specific genre is a thankless task. For over 40 years, this acclaimed flautist and keyboard player has explored a variety of musical territory including rock (Eschersteps), classical and world music (The Debussy Mirrored Ensemble), South African Jazz (Bheki Mseleku) and Ibiza (A Man Called Adam). He is also a regular member of the Will Gregory Moog Ensemble and a former member of the acclaimed big band Loose Tubes. His focus ...
Continue ReadingBilly Marrows: Dancing On Bentwood Chairs
by Neil Duggan
Recorded in December 2021 following a run of live performances, Dancing on Bentwood Chairs is the first album from the Billy Marrows Band. The release was put on temporary hold as his charity project album Penelope (Self Produced, 2024) was shortlisted for the 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards Album of the Year and was then followed by a live version. The intriguing album title and cover were inspired by the line “My days of dancing on bentwood ...
Continue ReadingMatt Anderson: Live at Leeds Jazz Festival
by Neil Duggan
To appreciate the synergy and spirit of a band it often pays to hear them play live. The quality of their playing and their abilities to interact are laid bare. Releasing their first live recording, the Matt Anderson Quartet can do so confidently having spent nearly a decade touring and recording together. Live at Leeds Jazz Festival was made at HEART in Headingly as part of the 2023 Leeds Jazz Festival. It features two tracks from the band's ...
Continue ReadingMike De Souza: Chrysalis
by Neil Duggan
For many musicians, the silver-lining of enforced isolation during the pandemic was the time to write and refine new compositions. The event enabled guitarist Mike De Souza to explore concepts for the six tracks that make up his second album, Chrysalis. This follows on from his debut, Slow Burn (Self-produced, 2019). Added impetus came from forming a new quintet, adding two new members to his existing trio. The music on the album is a rock/jazz hybrid that melds ...
Continue ReadingMatt Anderson Quartet: The Town and the City
by Bruce Lindsay
Saxophonist Matt Anderson grew up on the North Yorkshire Moors, in the north of England, and is now based in London where he teaches junior jazz ensembles at the Royal Academy of Music. The Town and the City is his third album—the title a nod to his years in the small towns and villages of the Moors, and his later move to the capital— and the second to feature his quartet of pianist Alberto Palau, bassist Will Harris and drummer ...
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