Results for "Barbara Thompson"

Barbara Thompson

Born: July 27, 1944

Women in Jazz Media: Kim Cypher

by B.D. Lenz
March 25, 2024

It is rare that a jazz musician is just a jazz musician. In order to survive you almost always have to have another gig, teach, or work in some auxiliary role to your music life. A musician who exemplifies this diversification is Kim Cypher, a saxophonist/vocalist based in the UK. Besides being a musician and composer, ...

New Releases Including A Rare Live Recording Of Tubby Hayes From 1965

by Bob Osborne
July 13, 2023

On this show music from Federico Solomiewicz, Dan Kurfirst, Glen Whitehead, Phil Venable, Barbara Thompson, Judge Schreber and Her Magic Band, Kaisa's Machine (Kaisa Mäensivu), Perforto, Nicky Schrire, Leandro Garcia, and the release of a new complete edition of a 1965 recording by Tubby Hayes.Playlist Show Intro 0:00 Federico Solomiewicz “Desde el sur" from ...

Live Music From John McLaughlin, Antoine Pierre Urbex Electric And Petite Blonde

by Len Davis
April 21, 2023

Live music from around the world with John McLaughlin from Boston, Saraswati at Montreaux, Antoine Pierre-Urbex Electric in Belgium and Bill Evans and the late Victor Bailey in Germany. Plus Asaf Sirkis from Solar Flash and from 1976 and 1978 the late Barbara Thompson. Also, Trevor Watts from Another Time. Playlist John McLaughlin “You ...

New Music From Santos, Cassibba, Thompson, And More

by Bob Osborne
April 20, 2023

On this show we feature brand new releases from Marco Antonio Santos, Hernán Cassibba, Barbara Thompson, Michael Feinberg, Helen Svoboda with Joe O'Connor and Tim Green, Taiko Saito, Igor Willcox Quartet, and Ralph Towner.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Marco Antonio Santos “About Silence" from About : Silence (ears&eyes) 00:53 Hernán Cassibba “Nuevos Aires" from Nuevos ...

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 ...

Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows Live '75

By Neil Ardley

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1: Intro; Prologue/Rainbow 1; Interlude 1; Rainbow 2; Interlude 2; Rainbow 3 (incomplete). CD2: Rainbow 4; Rainbow 5/Rainbow 6; Interlude 3; Interlude 4; Rainbow 7; Rainbow 8; Interlude 5; Rainbow 9; Epilogue; Outro.

Various: Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972)

by Chris May
July 2, 2021

As British jazz in 2021 reaches domestic and international audiences of unprecedented size, so record companies are being emboldened to open up their archives and reissue long-buried treasures. So, too, are new labels being formed to make available recordings which have not previously been released, but which have survived in the tape libraries of the musicians ...

Mike Taylor: Trio, Quartet & Composer Revisited

by Chris May
May 13, 2021

Historical context: Extracts from the diary of Ron Rubin, one of two bassists, the other being Jack Bruce, on Mike Taylor's Trio (Lansdowne, 1967).... “Saturday 18th February 1967. UFO, Tottenham Court Road. 'Giant Sun Trolley' Happening, opposite the Soft Machine etc. Mike spent the evening lying comatose, rigid and immobile in the middle of ...

Jazz in Britain: The Back Story

by Chris May
April 25, 2021

Jazz In Britain is a not-for-profit label that curates and releases previously unissued studio, performance and broadcast recordings made in the mid-1960s and '70s by the movers and shakers of the contemporary British jazz scene—proving along the way that the radical new wave jazz emanating from London in 2021 comes from a distinguished lineage.