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Binker Golding / Elliot Galvin: Ex Nihilo
by Chris May
As one half of Binker and Moses with drummer Moses Boyd, saxophonist Binker Golding has already made three keynote contributions to the London scene with the ferocious Dem Ones (Gearbox, 2015), Journey To The Mountain Of Forever (Gearbox, 2017) and Alive In The East? (Gearbox, 2018). It is impossible to overstate the significance of ...
SEED Ensemble: Driftglass
by Chris May
After decades in the shadow of its American parent, British jazz is finally coming of age. A community of young, London-based musicians is forging a rebooted style which reflects both the Caribbean and African musical heritages of the majority of its vanguard players and also locally created musics such as grime and garage. Jazz was created ...
Sarathy Korwar & The UPAJ Collective: My East Is Your West
by Chris May
Indo-jazz fusion has distinguished ancestry in Britain. The music took shape in the mid to late 1960s, when a string of extraordinary albums, each with one foot in Indian classical music and the other in post-bop jazz, were recorded by guitarist Amancio D'Silva and violinist John Mayer. Both featured empathetic jazz musicians (Joe Harriott, Don Rendell, ...
Thelonious Monk: Mønk
by Chris May
Summer 2018 has seen the release of previously unknown recordings by two giants of mid-twentieth century jazz. First we had John Coltrane's Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!), and now Thelonious Monk's live album Mønk. Both discs were made in 1963. The breathless hyperbole which greeted the Coltrane was unjustified, if predictable, but the ...
Binker & Moses At London's Jazz Cafe
by Chris May
Binker & Moses Jazz Cafe London September 12, 2018 Binker & Moses began life around five years ago, when saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd started playing ferocious, free-association duets during pre-performance sound checks as members of Zara McFarlane's band. Both musicians still tour and record with ...
Zara McFarlane Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
by BIMHUIS
Zara McFarlane is one of the most remarkable rising stars in British soul jazz. The singer from London, who was raised in a Jamaican family, has been compared to Erykah Badu and Cassandra Wilson. She has a pure voice and a unique, contemporary style combining soul, jazz, dub and afro-funk. The intimate vocals of ...
Binker and Moses: Alive In The East?
by Chris May
Something wonderful is happening in London in summer 2018. A disruptive musical movement, led by an inter-connected community of young musicians, is taking jazz in vibrant new directions and finding enthusiastic new audiences. Hybridisation is the name of game, which reflects London's cultural diversity by absorbing locally created styles such as grime and broken beat within ...
ORCASTRATUM: ORCASTRATUM
by Kevin Press
Glen Scott is one of those studio gurus without whom the world's biggest pop stars would be well and truly lost. Born to Jamaican parents in England in 1973, Scott has built a solid industry resume with a long list of world-famous references. His most celebrated credit came in 2013, as the producer of ...
Zara McFarlane: Arise!
by Chris May
Zara McFarlane is a London-based singer and composer with a voice like an angel and a style that reflects her cultural roots in the Caribbean and in the mash-up that is modern metropolitan Britain, where jazz, grime, hip hop, reggae and other musics of black origin are hybridising and shape-shifting with joyful abandon. She is an ...
Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
Label: Gearbox Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: CD1: The Departure; Intoxication From The Jahvmonishi Leaves; Fete By The
River; Trees On Fire; The Shaman’s Chant; Leaving The Now Behind. CD2: The
Valley Of The Ultra Blacks; Gifts From The Vibrations Of Light; Mysteries And
Revelations; Ritual Of The Root; The Voice Of Besbunu; Echoes From The Other
Side Of The Mountain; Reverse Genesis; Entering The Infinite; At The Feet Of The
Mountains Of Forever.
