Jazz Articles about Alex Maguire

DouBt: Mercy, Pity, Peace & Love

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 2, 2013

Questo eccellente trio guidato dal chitarrista belga Michel Delville ci aveva già colpito nel profondo dell'anima con l'album d'esordio Never Pet a Burning Dog, pubblicato da Moonjune Records nel 2009. Con Delville erano a bordo il tastierista inglese Alex Maguire e il batterista newyorchese Tony Bianco. La formazione rimane immutata anche in occasione del loro secondo lavoro, questo Mercy, Pity, Peace & Love, che conferma quanto di buono era già emerso nella precedente occasione. Si rafforza la componente che mutua ...

douBt: Never Pet a Burning Dog

by Mark Redlefsen
February 4, 2011

Guitarist Michel Deville, of the Belgian Wrong Object, and British keyboardist Alex Maguire team up to form a power trio with drummer Tony Bianco as doubt, on its debut, Never Pet a Burning Dog. Deville steps out with a louder, more direct tone, affectionately and more overtly exposing the influence of Terje Rypdal--even including one of his compositions, “Over Birkerot," from Odyssey (ECM, 1975). The enhanced gunslinger performance is warranted, to meet the demands thrown up by Maguire and his ...

douBt: Never Pet a Burning Dog

by John Kelman
March 7, 2010

Sometimes bringing two musicians together for the first time can yield some real magic. That was the case when British keyboardist Alex Maguire joined up with Michel Delville and members of the Belgian guitarist's flagship group, The Wrong Object, for Brewed in Belgium (MoonJune, 2008). Never Pet a Burning Dog largely pares things down to a trio featuring Delville, drummer Tony Bianco, and Maguire, who expands his sonic palette here to include electric piano, organ, synth, and that bastion of ...

Alex Maguire: Brewed in Belgium

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 15, 2009

La lunghissima introduzione al pianoforte del tastierista inglese Alex Maguire copre praticamente tutto il brano “Psychic Warrior" e non ci pare troppo azzardato immaginarla come un dolente omaggio alla memoria di Elton Dean, il compianto saxofonista inglese che con Maguire aveva collaborato negli anni precedenti alla sua morte. Verso la fine del pezzo entra il sax Robin Verheyen per condurci, assieme alle percussioni di Laurent Delchambre, al brano successivo, quel “John's Fragment" che ci riporta alle atmosfere care alla musica ...

Alex Maguire Sextet: Brewed in Belgium

by Gary Gomes
June 2, 2009

Alex Maguire has built an extremely strong reputation as a multi-faceted keyboard player over the past few years. He has, in addition to small band settings like this one, held the keyboard chair in the late drummer Pip Pyle's group Bash! and, after that, participated in a reunion tour of Canterbury legend Hatfield and the North. He also developed a technique of playing he calls “comprovisation"--a blend of spontaneity and structure that he demonstrates in spades on this live recording. ...

Alex Maguire Sextet: Brewed In Belgium

by Nic Jones
April 25, 2009

Keyboard player Alex Maguire has worked with the present day incarnation of the British band Hatfield and the North and clearly he has more than sufficient chops to deal with a range of musical situations.

The fare offered here is often freer than the Hatfield way, however. And when the music goes inside, such as on the opening of “Psychic Warrior," the impression is of a program of music which tries to cover so many bases it compromises ...

Alex Maguire Sextet: Brewed in Belgium

by John Kelman
October 4, 2008

While calling them a pick-up band would be unfairly dismissive, the members of Belgium's The Wrong Object sure do get around. Since 2007, in addition to its own Stories from the Shed (Moonjune, 2008), TWO has collaborated with British trombonist Annie Whitehead and trumpeter Harry Beckett on Platform One (Jazzprint, 2007), and Elton Dean on The Unbelievable Truth (Moonjune, 2007)--one of the British saxophonist's last performances before his unexpected passing in February, 2006. Brewed in Belgium continues the group's winning ...