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This Is Brian Jackson

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: All Talk; Force Of Will; C'est Cette Comete; Nomad; Mami Wata; Path To Macondo / Those Kind Of Blues; Hold On; Little Orphan Boy.

Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Albums Of 2022

by Chris May
December 2, 2022

It was a good year for jazz, as the world recovered from The Great Pause and bands got together once more for real-time live recordings. Twelve of 2022's absolute top albums are presented here, half of them new recordings, the other half reissues or previously unreleased archive items. Number One Best New Album ...

Article: Album Review

Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective: Reflections

Read "Reflections" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
September 20, 2022

In an inspired piece of programming, London's Barbican Centre presented the then virtually unknown harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and her quartet as one of the support bands on its November 18, 2017 one-nighter A Concert for Alice and John, a show headlined by Pharoah Sanders. It would be an exaggeration to say Bzhezhinska stole the show (see ...

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Supreme Love – A Journey Through Coltrane

By Sean Khan

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: A Love Supreme; Starchild; Afro Blue; Azawala; Emilia's Pick; Naima; As We Came Out Of; Giant Steps; Moment's Notice; The Savage Detectives; Starchild (Kaidi Tatham Remix); Azawala (Kaidi Tatham Remix); Equinox; Impressions; Cousin Mary; Equinox (Alternate Take); Giant Steps Outro.

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Lucky Man

By Billy Bang

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Introduction; Billy playing with the Banhar Gong Group of Kuntum (traditional and improvised); Flashback Tunnel Reflections; Mystery of the Mekong; The Sun Rising – Introduction to Song for Don Cherry; Song for Don Cherry; Flashback Memories; New Saigon Phunk; Traditional Vietnamese Catru Music; Billy Reflecting on Memories and Feelings; Jungle Lullaby; Quynh Anh Pham's Memories About Her Father; Dan Da; Billy Speaking About Music and Art; Flashlight and a 45 Tunnel Memories; Lucky Man Title Music: Vietnam 1967 Battle Composition; Teach Me Banhar; Traditional Quan Ho; Billy Reflecting on America, Music and Being Left Alone; Moments for the KIAMIA; Quynh Anh Pham Lullaby; New Saigon Phunk.

Article: Album Review

Sean Khan: Supreme Love – A Journey Through Coltrane

Read "Supreme Love – A Journey Through Coltrane" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 5, 2021

One thing you can count on with alto and soprano saxophonist Sean Khan is that he will never approach a project from a predictable angle. In this he resembles tenor saxophonist Steve Williamson. Both are among the most idiosyncratic of British jazz musicians as well as being uncompromising exponents of jazz as rebel music. Both first ...

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Billy Bang: Lucky Man

Read "Lucky Man" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 27, 2021

When he performed in Germany, they called him the “black devil violinist," his frenetic playing wrapped in a gyrating, trance-like state. For Billy Bang, who believed he had schizophrenia, the epithet bore a resemblance to his inner turmoil. He was born William Walker in Mobile, Alabama but grew up in the South Bronx. He studied violin ...

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Distant Voice

By Sean Khan

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Feel The Light; The Chaos; The Long Goodbye; The Savage Detectives.

Article: Album Review

Sean Khan: Distant Voice

Read "Distant Voice" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 1, 2019

Sean Khan is among the most interesting of British jazz musicians, a prime exponent of jazz as rebel music with a unique voice. And yet, twenty years after he debuted with his band SK Radicals, Khan remains one of the scene's least celebrated players. Khan accurately describes himself as a “career outsider." Like another outsider, fellow ...

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Jazz In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden

By Charles Mingus

Label: BBE Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: CD1: Pithecanthropus Erectus; The Man Who Never Sleeps; Peggy’s Blue Skylight. CD2: Introduction by Bud Spangler / Celia; Bud Spangler interview with Roy Brooks and commentary. CD3: C Jam Blues; Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk; Dizzy Profile. CD4: Noddin’ Ya Head Blues; Celia (alternate take). CD5: Dizzy Profile (alternate take); Strata Gallery Announcement by Bud Spangler.