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Article: Year in Review

Mark Sullivan’s Best Releases of 2015

Read "Mark Sullivan’s Best Releases of 2015" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


This is my first year end list as an AAJ contributor, hopefully the first of many! I reviewed a lot of great music, major label and independent productions alike. Here's the ten that rose to the top of my list of favorites, in no particular order. Eberhard Weber Hommage à Eberhard ...

Article: Album Review

The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet: Come to Me

Read "Come to Me" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


È una musica avvincente e ricercata quella che si ascolta in Come to Me: atmosfere intime e raccolte che si confrontano con sequenze incisive, sia vocali che strumentali. Protagonista è un quartetto al suo debutto, guidato dalla cantante polacca Sylwia Bialas e dal batterista israeliano Asaf Sirkis. La prima risiede in Germania mentre Sirkis vive in ...

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Article: Album Review

Alex Hutton Trio: Magna Carta Suite

Read "Magna Carta Suite" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Eight hundred years after the creation of the Magna Carta--the Great Charter that signalled a shift in power from the English monarchy to the English aristocracy--pianist Alex Hutton and his trio draw inspiration from that shift in power distribution to create the Magna Carta Suite. Hutton's trio is based in the UK but has ...

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Article: Album Review

The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet: Come To Me

Read "Come To Me" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Drummer/composer Asaf Sirkis, whose last album from 2013 was the highly acclaimed Shepherd's Stories is back with new group, co-led by the extraordinary Polish vocalist, composer and poet Sylwia Bialas. The album consists of ten journeys, they are much more than tracks, which contain many moments of intense yearning, sorrow, happiness and love.

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Article: Album Review

The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet: Come To Me

Read "Come To Me" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet demonstrates how well a vocalist can work as the featured soloist in a quartet. Even better, they make you forget the instrumentation in the beauty and joy of the music they make. The group truly deserves the “International" part of their name. Drummer Asaf Sirkis is an Israeli living in England; vocalist ...

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Article: Album Review

The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet: Come To Me

Read "Come To Me" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Led by drummer Asaf Sirkis and vocalist Sylwia Bialas, the International Quartet is completed by pianist Frank Harrison (a long-time collaborator with Sirkis in Gilad Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble) and bassist Pat Bettison. Come To Me is the band's debut, a collection of original compositions by Sirkis and Białas that heralds the arrival of a strong ...

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Article: Album Review

The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet: Come To Me

Read "Come To Me" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Drummer Asaf Sirkis co-leads this international group along with Polish singer Sywia Bialas (who actually resides in Germany) and two British musicians, Frank Harrison and Patrick Bettison. Sirkis has been making waves on the jazz scene over the past few years, playing with the likes of Larry Coryell and Tim Garland. Five of the ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Tim Garland: Songs To The North Sky

Read "Tim Garland: Songs To The North Sky" reviewed by Ian Patterson


So much of multi-reedist Tim Garland's recorded output takes nature as its inspiration. The eternal symphony of the sea, the theatre of sky, light and air and the vistas that have accompanied Garland's twenty plus years on the road are ever-present in his works; Songs to the North Sky is no exception. The first of two ...

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Article: Album Review

Gwilym Simcock and Yuri Goloubev: Reverie At Schloss Elmau

Read "Reverie At Schloss Elmau" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Schloss Elmau, in Bavaria, was the recording venue for pianist Gwilym Simcock's Barclaycard Mercury Prize nominated solo album Good Days At Schloss Elmau (ACT Music, 2011). In March 2013 Simcock returned to the Schloss in the company of double bassist Yuri Goloubev. The result is Reverie At Schloss Elmau. It's the first duo album by these ...

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Asaf Sirkis Trio: Shepherd's Stories

Label: Stonebird Productions
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1801; Eyes Tell; Traveller; Meditation; Dream Sister; Together; Shepherd’s Stories; Two Part Melody.


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