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The Louis Stewart Trio: Louis The First
by Ian Patterson
Long before Irish guitarist Louis Stewart released his debut album, the punningly titled Louis The First, none other than Joe Pass was singing his praises. Pass was not the only one; Ronnie Scott, who hosted many of the great jazz guitarists in his famous London venue, considered Stewart to be one of the best. Stewart was ...
Trio HLK: Anthropometricks
by Neil Duggan
Albums featuring standards are fairly common. Trio HLK start with this approach and then bend and invert it to create their own musical dialect. All seven compositions on Anthropometricks use sections of jazz standards as their base. The trio then put these ingredients through their version of a musical blender to create something unique. As pianist ...
Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band Live In London
by Chris May
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 ...
Louis Stewart's Out On His Own: A Landmark Solo Guitar Recording
by Ian Patterson
Dublin's finest export? Not Guinness, but Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart (January 5, 1944--August 20, 2016). A guitarist of tremendous skill, invention and personality, Stewart was certainly the first world-class jazz musician to emerge from Ireland and make a name on the international stage. During a fifty-plus-year career, Stewart played with Benny Goodman, ...
Chroma
By Emma Rawicz
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Phlox; Xanadu I; Rangwali; Xanadu II; Middle Ground; Xanadu III; Intro to Viridian; Viridian; Falu.
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.
Clouded Lines
Label: SF Sounds
Released: 2023
Track listing: Prelude; Clouded Lines Part –Fast; Clouded Lines Part Two—Slow; Clouded Lines Part 3—Faster; I’ve Got A Crush
On You; It’s Not Yourself; She Has Music; Prelude (Outro).
Dream Band: Live in London
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).
Benet McLean: Green Park
by Chris May
Best known as a pianist, with four critically acclaimed albums behind him, on Green Park Benet McLean returns to his first instrument, the violin. The press release says he began studying the instrument at the age of 3, and Wikipedia tells us he was at some stage mentored by classical maestro Yehudi Menuhin. It stacks up. ...
Tim Garland: Sama'i For Peace
by Mike Jacobs
Ever completely miss an album that has a bunch of guys that you expressly keep an ear to the ground for? Well, it even happens to music writers. Just in case you missed out too, here's a fine track from Tim Garland's One (Edition, 2016) featuring Jason Rebello, Asaf Sirkis and Ant Law. ...
