Jazz Articles about Frank Denyer

About Frank Denyer

Album Review

Composer Frank Denyer was born in London, in April 1943. Screens, recorded at the Menuhin School in Surrey, England, in September 2022, serves to mark the milestone of Denyer's eightieth birthday. It is his sixth album on Another Timbre, his first having been the label's third release, Music for Shakuhachi (2007); that featured four Denyer compositions for solo shakuhachi or shakuhachi plus percussion, performed by shakuhachi master Yoshikazu Iwamoto at a time when the newly-formed label seemed more interested in ...

Album Review

Frank Denyer: Melodies

by John Eyles
April 18, 2023

London-born composer Frank Denyer has a long and varied career dating back to the 1960s. This two-disc album, released in plenty of time for his eightieth birthday on April 4th 2023, is the most recent of a dozen albums which have been released featuring his compositions, the first having beenWheat (Orchid, 1984) released on vinyl. Five of the six released since 2007 have been on Another Timbre, the first of those, Music for Shakuhachi having been that label's third release. ...

Multiple Reviews

Old and new Frank Denyer

by John Eyles
January 29, 2020

It can often be difficult for a record label to follow a release as successful as Another Timbre's monumental five-disc set Morton Feldman Piano has proved to be, so the next wave of five releases on the label is particularly interesting. Of the five, two are by British composer Frank Denyer who has had two previous recordings on the label, including its third release, Music for Shakuhachi (2007), which jostled for attention alongside improv releases by players such as John ...