Results for "Alexandra Ridout"

Alexandra Ridout

Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band Live In London

by Chris May
January 18, 2024

Viewed in retrospect, the abiding memory of 2023 is that it produced too many jazz albums prioritizing technical facility over emotional engagement. In London, New York and elsewhere (but not, so it seemed, in Chicago), musicians appeared to focus on virtuosity rather than feeling. Dullsville. For the record, some of those albums that did put soul ...

Colour of Sound

By Zoe Rahman

Label: Manushi Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dance of Time; For Love; Little Ones; Sweet Jasmine; Go with the Flow; Roots; Unity; Peace Garden.

Dream Band Live In London

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1: Abaqua; Verglas; Oblique; Cakeism (Intro); Cakeism; Cakeism (Alternate Take). Disc 2: Momentum; Grace (Intro); Grace (Part 1); Grace (Part 2); Cat Circles; Red (Intro); Red; North Field. Disc 3: Rio; Brocken (Intro); Brocken; Lift; Sach; Differentials.

Dream Band: Live in London

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Abaqua; Verglas; Oblique; Cakeism (Intro); Cakeism; Cakeism (Bonus); Momentum; Grace (Intro); Grace (Part 1); Grace (Part 2); Cat Circles; Red (Intro); Red; North Field; Rio; Brocken (Intro); Brocken; Lift; Sach; Differentials (Bonus).

Zoe Rahman: Colour of Sound

by Neil Duggan
July 4, 2023

If you have shown your virtuosity on the piano in a variety of live and studio recordings, been recognized as one of the leading lights in contemporary British jazz and won multiple awards, what do you do next? In Zoe Rahman's case, more of the same but expanded and magnified. Most often heard in a trio ...

Only In Autumn

By Rod Oughton

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Intro; Only In Autumn; 100 Secrets; Come Clean; Thomasito; Nina; Swipe; Bittersweet; The Limit; Coming Home; Nothing’s Like A New Love.

OK Aurora: Only In Autumn

by Chris May
July 16, 2021

Rod Oughton is a young London drummer with considerable technical proficiency, and a composer and bandleader of promise. With his octet OK Aurora, which prominently features singer Alina Miroshnichenko, Oughton aims to bridge the gap between jazz and what might rather patronizingly be called intelligent pop. Only In Autumn is the band's second release, following the ...

Issie Barratt: Every Solo Is A New Invitation

by Duncan Heining
January 21, 2020

Issie Barratt is one of the most significant jazz educators in Britain today. From 1999-2004, Barratt was head of Jazz at Trinity College of Music but her role as Artistic Director of the National Youth Jazz Collective has been of even greater importance in developing young jazz talent. Now in its, thirteenth year, NYJC goes from ...

Tom Ridout: No Excuses

by Thomas Earl
January 9, 2018

The name Tom Ridout may be familiar following his appearance in the Final of the BBC's Young Jazz Musician Competition in 2016. His sister, Alexandra, went on to win the Award. Any hard feelings have been set aside, however, with both siblings featuring on Tom's debut album, No Excuses. Opting for diversity over continuity, ...