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Album

No Now Is So

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Prelude (unidentified Spanish bebop selection #1); Sarah Teaches Kirsty to Read; Baobabs; Nuru Light: The Prince of Peace; Whirligig; 120:4; toc/tic/kiss; Old Time Folk Music from Oxford; Love in Outer Space (aka Unknown Kohoutek"); Greenford Breakdown; Cowley Road Strut: Message from the East (for Pat Thomas).

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Article: Interview

Harris Eisenstadt: From Mbalax to Canada Day

by Clifford Allen
October 5, 2009

Over the past decade, drummer, bandleader and composer Harris Eisenstadt has been a force in improvised music, active in both Los Angeles and New York (where he now resides). It's a testament to his creativity and energy that his ensembles have run the gamut from free-bop in the vein of post-Blue Note small groups, to orchestral ...

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Article: Live Review

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble at the Vortex, London

by John Sharpe
September 3, 2009

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble The Vortex London, England August 10, 2009 If you can judge a person by the company he keeps, then pianist Alexander Hawkins must be someone to watch given his musical associations, both actual and virtual. The packed house at the Vortex certainly thought so, confounding Hawkins' ...

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Article: Album Review

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: No Now Is So...

Read "No Now Is So..." reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
August 22, 2009

Both the enigmatic title and Red Planet sleeve photography of this debut recording by Alexander Hawkins' six-piece ensemble suggest something out of the ordinary. The feeling is confirmed by a glance at the distinctive instrumentation, which pitches the strings of cellist Hannah Marshall, guitarist Otto Fischer and bassist Dominic Lash against the percussion of Javier Carmona ...

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Article: Album Review

Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: No Now Is So

Read "No Now Is So" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
June 4, 2009

Pianist Alexander Hawkins is one of the brightest rising young stars of British jazz and improvisation, amply demonstrated by his work in Barkingside, the Convergence Quartet, and the Evan Parker Quartet. Hawkins has technique in abundance and a brain quick enough to make creative use of it. With no obvious stylistic antecedents, he excels in a ...

Album

Barkingside

By Alexander Hawkins

Label: Limetree Records
Released: 2008

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Barkingside and The Convergence Quartet: Young and Free

by John Eyles
February 28, 2008

Between them, these two quartets feature six young players, four from the UK, one from America, one from Canada. As the oldest of the six is not yet 35 years old--and several are much younger--they provide heartening evidence that there are plenty of good young improvisers around and that not all young players aspire to be ...