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Fourth Page: Encore With Masks
by John Eyles
The release of Encore With Masks represents a significant milestone for Fourth Page. The quartet of Charlie Beresford on guitar and vocals, Carolyn Hume on keyboards, Peter Marsh on bass and Paul May on drums first came together in 2010 and released its first two albums within a year. Five more albums followed, the last two, Live Wales--Hungary (2019) and Harbour (2020), being released on Beresford's label, The 52nd. Now comes Encore With Masks which was ...
Continue ReadingAlexey Kruglov, Carolyn Hume, Paul May, Oleg Yudanov: Last Train from Narvskaya
by John Eyles
In 2019, the UK-based Leo Records was celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its formation by the Russian émigré Leo Feigin, the self-styled “enthusiastic amateur" who managed to attract a host of first-rate musicians to the label, as well as developing many who were little-known when they joined Leo. An important part of the celebrations was the 8th Leo Records Festival, held in St. Petersburg in October, an event which had become almost annual. As Leo has had a cosmopolitan roster ...
Continue ReadingFound Drowned: Clownslave
by John Eyles
The improvising trio Found Drowned comprises guitarist James O'Sullivan, a long-standing member of Eddie Prevost's Friday night improv workshop , bassist Peter Marsh and drummer Paul May, who together are one half of the quartet Fourth Page . The three first played together in 2010, releasing their eponymous first album in 2012. The studio-recorded Clownslave comprises two tracks, the thirty-five minute “Clown" and twenty-five minute “Slave." The album is available on cassette and/or download, the cassette versions each being twenty-minute ...
Continue ReadingDean Magraw's Red Planet "Space Dust" CD Release Party at Artists' Quarter (St. Paul), May 13-14
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Michael Ricci
Master guitarist Dean Magraw presents his trio, Red Planet, in a stunning new CD, Space Dust, including many original compositions that the band has been playing live since 2003. Space Dust exemplifies the magical direction that these three experienced jazz musicians have continually created. The disc opens with the band setting fire to the Coltrane tune, “Africa," travels through the Jimi Hendrix classic, “Little Wing," Trane's “Saturn," then six original compositions and concludes with a unique interpretation of the “The ...
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