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Barry Guy is an innovative double bass player and composer whose creative diversity in the fields of Jazz improvisation, solo recitals, chamber and orchestral performance is the outcome both of an unusually varied training and a zest for experimentation, underpinned by a dedication to the double bass and the ideal of musical communication. Between the early Seventies and mid Nineties Barry Guy held principal bass position in various orchestras including The Orchestra of St.John’s Smith Square, City of London Sinfonia, Monteverdi Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music, Kent Opera and The London Classical Players

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The First Touch

By Trevor Watts

Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2026
Track listing: Lublin; Emerging; Crossing Points; Birth Of The Voice; Threshold Of Sound; Connection; The Shared Moment.

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One Voice

By Simon Rose

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Boxhanger (Simon Rose); Jabulani (Per‑Åke Holmlander); Dekooning (portrait of Coleman Hawkins), tenor sax (Ken Vandermark); Mint amikor tavasz (Szilárd Mezei); Channeling (Joe Giardullo); Walking with Mirabeau I (Kjell Nordeson); John’s Solo (John Purcell); Black, White, Red, Blue (Barry Guy); Images from the Dark (Dominic Duval); Una Muy Bonita (Marcin Oleś); Rain (Bartłomiej Brat Oleś).

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XVI Brda Contemporary Music Festival

by Neri Pollastri
October 6, 2026

Brda Contemporary Music Festival Sala Cinematografica Medana, Memoriale Gradnik e Zorzut Medana, Slovenia 10-12 settembre 20246 Sedicesima edizione per il Brda Contemporary Music Festival, la rassegna voluta e diretta da Zlatko Kaučič sui colli sloveni adiacenti al nostro Collio e interamente dedicata alla musica improvvisata nelle sue forme più radicali. Apertasi ...

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Trevor Watts / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez: The First Touch

Read "The First Touch" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 29, 2026

Trevor Watts and Barry Guy's near 60-year musical acquaintance yields an immediacy that continues undiminished on The First Touch. Recorded live in Poland in 2025 with drummer Ramon Lopez, a frequent cohort of the bassist, the seven tracks capture a trio whose empathy is matched by its appetite for risk. Although Watts' saxophones and Guy's bass ...

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Simon Rose, et al.: One Voice

Read "One Voice" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 17, 2026

What is more American than jazz? Historians generally agree that the music was born in New Orleans, forged from African musical traditions, European harmony and Caribbean rhythms. Alongside jazz, baseball and basketball are among America's great cultural inventions. Yet today, none of these belongs solely to the United States. Japan captured the imagination of baseball fans ...

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Joe Morris, Barry Guy/Roberto Ottaviano & Bill Connors

by Maurice Hogue
July 27, 2026

Bassist/guitarist Joe Morris was recently honored at the annual Vision Festival for his lifetime contributions, and if anyone has any doubts about that, just listen to his new album Counter Spectacle out on the FSR label. With reed players Rob Brown & Anna Webber & drummer Matthew Rousseau, Morris lets freedom reign. This is a true ...

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Vilnius Mama Jazz 2026

by Ian Patterson
June 11, 2026

Vilnius Mama Jazz Lithuanian National Drama Theatre25th Edition Vilnius. LithuaniaMay 22-24, 2026 Vilnius Mama Jazz turned 25. In festival terms that is early middle age. When you consider that 25 years is roughly a quarter of the entire history of jazz, the significance of the milestone assumes greater meaning.

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Andrés Coll: Ride to Heaven

Read "Ride to Heaven" reviewed by Artur Moral

by Artur Moral
April 17, 2026

Some instruments can come across as far removed from the jazz orbit--especially when we think of them as vehicles for a soloist's showcase. Yet a number of resolute experimenters have worked hard to prove otherwise, with commendable skill. Among others, such is the case with Dorothy Ashby on harp, Julius Watkins on French horn and Garvin ...

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