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Album

Naima/Live in Berlin

Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Released: 2018
Track listing: Naima: Giant Steps; Naima; Some Other Blues; After the Rain; Transition; Ascension. (recorded UK 2011) Live in Berlin: But Not For Me; Say It; Resolution; Impressions; Take the Coltrane. (recorded Berlin 2007)

Article: Extended Analysis

Naima/Live in Berlin

by Duncan Heining
August 30, 2018

Saxophonist Alan Skidmore has worked in many, many different settings during a career that stretches back to the early sixties with Alexis Korner--one of the three 'Fathers of British Blues" (paternity disputed!). That career has included recordings with John Mayall and Eric Clapton, Georgie Fame, Sonny Boy Williamson, Stan Tracey, Mike Westbrook, Mike Gibbs, the Walker ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Destination South Africa (Part 2)

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 24, 2018

One episode was not enough, so we needed more time to cover the South African scene. This week we look back at an earlier phase of the history of jazz in South Africa, focusing on some foundational bands and musicians, and the musicians they inspired both in South African and elsewhere. Playlist Ben Allison ...

Article: The Big Question

Presenting Problem

by Duncan Heining
January 30, 2018

Jazz often appears to exist within its own cultural and artistic paradigm, isolated from other arts and in its own discreet musical corner. Worse still from the perspective of those who would hope to make a living from it, it often seems that more people want to play the music than listen to it or, more ...

Album

After The Rain

By Alan Skidmore

Label: Miles Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: I Remember Clifford; It’s Easy To Remember; After The Rain; Nature Boy; Too Young To Go Steady; Theme For Ernie; Naima; Nancy; My One And Only Love; Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye; In A Sentimental Mood; Where Are You?; Central Park West.

Album

Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

By Mike Westbrook Concert Band

Label: Turtle Records
Released: 2017
Track listing:
CD 1:
Hooray!; Landscape; Waltz (for Joanna); Landscape (II); Other World; Marching Song.
CD 2:
Transition; Home; Rosie; Prelude; Tension; Introduction; Ballad; Conflict; Requiem; Tarnished; Memorial.
CD 3:
Marching Song; When Young; But It Must Get Better, And It Will Get Better; Original Peter; Magic Garden.

Article: Profile

Mike Osborne: Force Of Nature - Part 1-2

by Barry Witherden
November 2, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 Some three-and-a-half minutes into Release, the Deram recording of Mike Westbrook's seminal suite mixing Swing classics with Westbrook originals, after a scorching solo by John Surman on “The Few," an alto saxophone cadenza emerged from a free ensemble passage: the tone was penetrating, incisive, severe, the phrasing intense, passionate ...

Article: Interview

Mauro Bardusco - Direttore Artistico di Jazz & Wine Of Peace Festival

by Neri Pollastri
October 18, 2017

Il festival Jazz & Wine of Peace di Cormòns, in provincia di Gorizia, è una delle rassegne nazionali di maggior successo, cresciuto negli ultimi anni a dismisura certo anche grazie all'unione degli spettacoli con il vino -Cormòns si trova nel Collio Friulano, ove si producono alcuni dei migliori bianchi d'Italia -ma in primo luogo in virtù ...

Article: Interview

Eric Ineke: Surveying the European Jazz Scene

by Victor L. Schermer
September 6, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6[This is the fourth of the All About Jazz series on “The Many Faces of Jazz Today: Critical Dialogues" in which we explore the current state of jazz around the world with musicians, journalists, and entrepreneurs who give ...

Article: Album Review

Alan Skidmore: After The Rain

Read "After The Rain" reviewed by Duncan Heining

by Duncan Heining
August 28, 2017

In 1998, with After The Rain British saxophonist Alan Skidmore got to achieve a lifetime ambition to record this beautiful 'jazz with strings' album. Out of print for some time, its reissue is well overdue. It was once a cliché in the jazz world amongst critics that records such as this represented a descent into the ...