Results for "Andrew Robb"

Andrew Robb

The Defector

Label: AMP Music & Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Defector; Perfect Hindrance; Undone; Moment Gained; Introduction to Without a Voice; Without a Voice; Here (for Chicca); Overlap; Not My Country.

Henry Spencer: The Defector

by Neil Duggan
September 26, 2023

In 2011, trumpeter Henry Spencer won the Best Newcomer Award at the jazz festival in the Wiltshire town of Marlborough; he went on to win the Emerging Excellence Award from Help Musicians UK in 2014. Sometimes these awards add extra pressure or, as is the case here, propel the musician to new heights. He climbs very ...

The Story Needs an Ending

By Louise Dodds

Label: Independent release
Released: 2022
Track listing: Blossom in Indigo Nowhere to Hide Inside In Other Words Place of Wonder Lean into the Fall A Little Grace Paradise Every Hue This is Where I Leave You Nowhere to Hide

A Northern Code: Boundaries

by Mark Sullivan
March 13, 2020

A Northern Code is a collaboration between Norwegian guitarist Mathias Marstrander, Scottish double bassist Andrew Robb and Norwegian drummer Sigurd Steinkpf. The group balances improvisation with composition; one hallmark is the use of conceptual goals to help shape the improvisations. This is demonstrated right off the bat with opener “Slow Motion," which ably delivers on its ...

Boundaries

By A Northern Code

Label: Ora Fonogram
Released: 2019
Track listing: Slow Motion; Beslan; Bifilomania; Every Cell Of Your Body; Existential Future; Red Street; Meditative; Someday My Prince Will Come; Soundscape.

Lauren Bush: All My Treasures

by Bruce Lindsay
May 20, 2016

"I love the human race," sings Lauren Bush on the opening track of All My Treasures, Bob Dorough's life-affirming “I've Got Just About Everything I Need." It's a positive sentiment, just one brief moment on an album that bursts with positivity, an album that sounds like the product of a mature and very experienced artist. Surprisingly, ...

Alan Benzie Trio: Traveller's Tales

by Bruce Lindsay
July 14, 2015

As the title of his debut album suggests, pianist Alan Benzie has travelled. Traveller's Tales is a collection of original tunes inspired by these travels, whether the journeys took place on planet Earth or, as Benzie puts it, “in my head." Real or imagined, these traveller's tales are definitely worth hearing.The pianist was the ...