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Alcyona Mick

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The Celtic Wheel Of The Year Suite

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Eos (summer solstice); Lammas; Mabon; Samhain; Gaia’s Breath (winter solstice); Imbolc; Ostara; Beltane.

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Article: Album Review

Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise In The Hold

Read "A Paradise In The Hold" reviewed by Don Ball


Yazz Ahmed's music has focused on combining her love of jazz with her Bahrani heritage since her first recording in 2011, and with her release, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories, 2025), she adds a new component: voice. With lyrics in both English and Arabic, Ahmed uses stories and music from her childhood in ...

Article: Album Review

Josephine Davies & The Ensō Ensemble: The Celtic Wheel Of The Year Suite

Read "The Celtic Wheel Of The Year Suite" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Sassofonista e compositrice britannica, nota per il trio Satori, Josephine Davies debutta con un ricco e raffinato progetto orchestrale, che presenta la sua suite in otto parti ispirata alle feste stagionali celtiche delle isole Shetland. “Dopo aver composto diversi pezzi per orchestra jazz" --ha detto Josephine--"ispirata da un trasferimento in campagna durante il lockdown, ...

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Unfinished Business

Label: Spark Label
Released: 2024
Track listing: Life And Times (Of A Perfect Stranger) (1. Formative Years. 2. Ankle Deep In Dust. 3. Midlife Crisis. 4. It's Weird Being The Same Age As Old People.); Lugubrious Boots; Ludwig's Van.

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Article: Album Review

Josephine Davies: Satori: Weatherwards

Read "Satori: Weatherwards" reviewed by Chris May


From an international perspective, the best kept secret in British jazz could be tenor and soprano saxophonist Josephine Davies. She first recorded in 2000 as a member of Crissy Lee's Jazz Orchestra, a fifteen piece all-woman band who made one album, the self-produced ...With Body And Soul. (Actually, there was one male in the lineup, trumpeter ...

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Article: Album Review

Perfect Stranger: Unfinished Business

Read "Unfinished Business" reviewed by Neil Duggan


There cannot be too many artists who release music 50 years after composing it. In 1974, Chris Sansom wrote six tracks, the highlight being a four-movement piece, echoing the structure of a classical symphony but taking influences from the progressive rock of the time to create something outside conventional jazz. He formed a band to play ...

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Article: Chats with Cats

Women in Jazz Media: Kim Cypher

Read "Women in Jazz Media: Kim Cypher" reviewed by B.D. Lenz


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, ...

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Article: Interview

Yazz Ahmed: The Inclusive Saboteuse

Read "Yazz Ahmed: The Inclusive Saboteuse" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Pretty much from the beginning of her career, trumpet and flugelhorn player Yazz Ahmed has been intent on sabotaging the walls and fences that divide the jazz world, championing an inclusive vision in which Arabic traditions blend seamlessly with loops and electronics, and rock and pop can offer jazz plenty of inspiration. Two years ...

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My Time

Label: Red Kite Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Karmarama; Already There; Beans' Dreams; By Twelve; Dink No Dink; Bad Hair Day; For My Sins; My Time


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