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Best known as a pianist, with four critically acclaimed albums behind him, on Green Park Benet McLean returns to his first instrument, the violin. The press release says he began studying the instrument at the age of 3, and Wikipedia tells us he was at some stage mentored by classical maestro Yehudi Menuhin. It stacks up. McLean can play. Green Park is a blast. Along the way, as well as his own discs, McLean has, since the ...
read moreDuncan Eagles: Narrations
by Neil Duggan
Duncan Eagles, perhaps best known as the tenor saxophonist in Partikel, is also in high demand as a sideman to high fliers including Zara McFarlane, Shabaka Hutchings, Janek Gwizdala, Gary Husband and Ola Onabule. Recorded with minimal editing and featuring seven original compositions, Narrations, is his second album as leader, following on from Citizen (Ropeadope, 2019). He explores a wide range of musical styles and states: “This is a collection of individual pieces that stand together which is how the ...
read moreEstraven: Ignored Advice
by Chris May
South London band Estraven's debut album is a pleasure and a breath of fresh air: a novel chunk of acoustic jazz which avoids what has become, in 2022, the South London scene's default focus on grooves and dancefloors. Ignored Advice ploughs its own furrow. The young piano-less quartet is led by bassist and composer Chris Hyde-Harrison and completed by tenor saxophonist Duncan Eagles, drummer Matt Parkinson and French-born guitarist Alban Claret, who plays an electric instrument with ...
read moreDuncan Eagles: Citizen
by Roger Farbey
Citizen is London-based saxophonist Duncan Eagle's first album under his own name and follows his signing to the burgeoning U.S. label Ropeadope. His other major vehicle is the band Partikel whose eponymously titled debut album was released in 2010 followed by three more critically acclaimed recordings for the Whirlwind label, Cohesion (2013), String Theory (2015) and Counteraction (2017). Eagles is highly respected on the U.K. jazz scene and has worked with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Gary Husband and Jason ...
read morePartikel: Cohesion
by AAJ Italy Staff
Partikel è un trio inglese pianoless capitanato dal giovane sassofonista Duncan Eagles. La formazione è qui al secondo album ed è caratterizzata da un marcato dinamismo che si sviluppa attraverso composizioni (quasi tutte di Eagles) volutamente frammentarie, dai temi minimali e reiterati, eppure non prive di una narratività in filigrana. Sono esempi di questo stile - che riprende quello sviluppato quasi vent'anni fa dal trio di Thomas Chapin - “The Cove" e “The Optimist": la prima è fortemente frammentaria e ...
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