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The Weave
For years now Liverpool has been home to a small but extremely vibrant and healthy Jazz community. There is a deeply rooted, direct, honest and often humorous charm that is the hallmark of Liverpool music across the genres, and this is no less true of the Jazzers.
The Weave harnesses these qualities and aims to present them to a national and eventualy international audience.
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The Weave: Knowledge Porridge
by Phil Barnes
Once there was a time when to be an individual meant pursuing self-realisation, working out who you were, how you felt about the world and what you believed for yourself. If that meant that say Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra or Charles Mingus were viewed as eccentrics then too bad, it was just how they were or wanted to be seen. Regrettably in our modern age things have changed and individualism now has more than a whiff of selfishness, nasty politics ...
Continue ReadingThe Weave: The Weave
by Bruce Lindsay
From the perspective of an east of England jazz writer, it can seem like Manchester has the north east's jazz scene to itself, with Liverpool, its near neighbour, putting up little in the way of competition. It's not that Liverpool is un-musical--it is after all the home city of Gerry And The Pacemakers--but its impact on UK jazz isn't as emphatic as that of its musical rival. Enter The Weave, a Liverpool septet, with its rather wonderful self-titled debut album. ...
Continue ReadingRoman Rhodes and the Born Again Pagans weave uplifting patchwork of '60s folk and jazz on new CD
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Lauren Rogers
Flower power is in full bloom in the '60s folk jams of Roman Rhodes and the Born Again Pagans. On their latest album The Emergent Sea, the Pagans weave together a patchwork of hippie-era acoustic rockers, jazz, and psychedelic music. However, the group is no nostalgia cheese festival but nor are they ironic indie hipsters. They are simply the product of their eclectic influences, a multicultural unit that somehow is able to weld their worlds-apart roots together and sound like ...
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“Just Beautiful” - Digby Fairweather
“The Weave have created something quite unique” - Marvin Stamm (ex-Sinatra New York jazz trumpeter)
“Distinctive and engaging” - Paul Pace (Ronnie Scotts)
“Great to hear the Liverpool scene is so vibrant . . . fine playing” - Howard Mandel (New York Jazz critic & Author)
"Get a hold of these jazzy gemstones of the Northlands. The perfect morning soundtrack" - Stealing Sheep
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
