Jazz Articles

Henry Lowther: can't believe, won't believe

by Bruce Lindsay
January 14, 2018

If any jazz ensemble can be said to define the word “prolific" it's not Henry Lowther's Still Waters. The band's debut album, ID, appeared in 1997. can't believe, won't believe is its second release, just 21 years later. Good things, as they say, come to those that wait. Bandleader, composer and trumpeter Lowther has been a busy professional musician for over 50 years. He played at Woodstock in 1969 with Keef Hartley, was associated with the bands of ...

Paul Clarvis / Liam Noble: Starry Starry Night

by Chris May
February 23, 2009

A charming little beauty, Starry Starry Night is a collection of cover versions of mainly familiar material by drummer Paul Clarvis and pianist Liam Noble, two characterful lights of the British jazz scene. The tunes range from classic standards like Duke Ellington's “Mood Indigo," the Gershwins' “Embraceable You" and Scott Joplin's “Maple Leaf Rag," through to more recent treasures like Gillian Welch's “Dear Someone," Don Maclean's “Vincent (Starry Starry Night)" and Moondog's “Paris."

The album is as intimate ...

The Stan Sulzmann Big Band: Birthdays, Birthdays

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2000

Stan Sulzmann, best known to Jazz fans in Great Britain as a resourceful post–bop saxophonist with a readily identifiable sound, proves on this provocative big–band debut album (inspired by Stan’s 50th birthday party) that he is a composer / arranger whose insights and originality are well above the norm. Every selection on Birthdays, Birthdays was arranged by Sulzmann, and each one bears the mark of a first–rate craftsman who writes with the entire band in mind. Stylistically, Sulzmann is more ...