Results for "Phil Lee"

Phil Lee

Born: April 8, 1943

For Future Reference

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Chapter One; GRS; Celeste; Ugetsu; ‘Smatter; Early Spring; Your Eyes Are Love; The Right Moment. CD2: Zemlja; Summer Night; Three Four Piece; Evansong; Your Dancing Toes; For Future Reference; Ballad No. 1.

Trevor Tomkins' Sextant: For Future Reference

by Chris May
April 12, 2023

A 2-CD collection of four sessions recorded for BBC Radio between 1980 and 1983, For Future Reference is a snapshot, just one of many snapshots that might be taken, of British jazz in the period immediately before the so-called “jazz boom" of the mid to late 1980s. That boom was marked by an acknowledgement of the ...

Never Never Land

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2022
Track listing: Start Right; Never Never Land; Chinese Wand; Third World Song; Jack And John; Your Eyes Are Love; The Story So Far; A Night In Amnesia; No Surprises; Your Dancing Toes; Zemlja; Richie Street N1; Third World Song.

Henry Lowther's Quarternity: Never Never Land

by Chris May
September 2, 2022

The British trumpeter and composer Henry Lowther, who first made an impact in the 1960s and released the well received album Can't Believe, Won't Believe (Village Life) in 2018, came to jazz via a circuitous route. After playing cornet in a provincial Salvation Army band, he moved to London around 1960 to study violin at the ...

Gilgamesh: Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into

by John Kelman
January 7, 2015

Gilgamesh Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into Charly 1978 Today's Rediscovery pays tribute to a musician who has been dead for over 30 years but whose brief body of work remains a seminal part of the British Canterbury scene that included groups like Soft Machine, Caravan and Hatfield and The ...

Graham Collier, 1937-2011

October 24, 2011

Written by Duncan Heining Composer, bassist and bandleader Graham Collier left town on Friday, September 9,, 2011. He was holidaying with his partner, John, in Crete, when a sudden heart failure took his final breath. It was quick, relatively painless but unexpected. We all felt sure Graham had too much sparkle, too much music in him ...

Samo Salamon Trio: Almost Almond

by Nic Jones
February 10, 2011

It's starting to feel as if the further guitarist Salamon Salamon progresses in his career, the faster the company he keeps. On this trio date, he's working with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey, both with numerous appearances on record to their credit. But Salamon isn't out of his depth; this is a trio that ...

Gilgamesh: Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into

by Nic Jones
July 20, 2009

British bass guitarist Hugh Hopper's recent death in the summer of 2009 throws this reissue into some sad relief. Recorded and originally released some 31 years ago, the fare is fusion of an order made rare by the fact that it's played with a measure of diffidence and an absence of empty technical fireworks. In short ...