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Byron Wallen
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Byron was raised in a musical environment and started learning his first instrument, the piano, at an early age. He then went on to study the trumpet with Jimmy Owens, Donald Byrd and Jon Faddis in New York. His early music career was forged while he was studying for a degree in Psychology, Philosophy and Maths at Sussex University (he graduated in 1992). During this period he recorded for Loose Ends and Cleveland Watkiss, and played trumpet with the likes of Mervyn Africa, The Style Council, Charles Earland, Courtney Pine and Jean Toussaint.
By the late 90s his work was receiving world wide attention and his fluent trumpet, firmly rooted in the jazz tradition, could be heard performing with a myriad of artists such as David Murray, Andrew Hill, Butch Morris, Ralph Moore, Billy Higgins, Eddie Henderson, Wynton Marsalis, Herlin Riley, Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, William Orbit, Toumani Diabate, Brice Wassy, Lonnie Liston Smith, Ronnie Laws and Chaka Khan. His trumpet has also appeared alongside African pioneers such as Hugh Masekela, Manu Dibango and Amampondo. One of the most versatile and dynamic voices on the British jazz scene, he has performed with rap outfits such as The Roots, Digable Planets and Us3.The Windrush Gala Concert in 2001 saw Byron work with Mica Paris, Caron Wheeler, Shola Ama, Roland Gift, Desmond Dekker, Janet Kay and Grace Jones. The concert was staged as a culmination of a remarkable season of programs by the BBC.
Bologna Jazz Festival 2024
by Libero Farnè
Varie sedi Bologna Jazz Festival 2024 Bologna e Ferrara 23 ottobre--17 novembre 2024 Per l'ampiezza della sua durata il Bologna Jazz Festival 2024 potrebbe essere definito un festival fiume, con le caratteristiche più di una rassegna che di un festival concentrato. Per la varietà delle proposte si è qualificato invece come ...
New Music From Walia, Pardo, Hamilton, Webb And More
by Bob Osborne
2024 is proving to be a very busy year for new jazz releases. The seventeen new albums featured on this edition of World of Jazz demonstrate a healthy and developing jazz world where tradition and modernism share equally the goal of creating memorable listening experiences. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Pritesh Walia “Finishing Up" from ...
Tony Haynes 1941 - 2024
by Chris May
It is with great sadness that All About Jazz reports the passing of Tony Haynes, the founder and for over 40 years the creative director of London's Grand Union Orchestra (GUO). Haynes left us on 17 September 2024. Under his visionary leadership, GUO did much to take forward the idea of jazz as a multi-cultural artform, ...
Take Five with Tap Dancer Petra Haller
by AAJ Staff
Meet Petra Haller Petra Haller, based in London, UK, is a respected figure in the fields of tap dance and music. Honored as a Rising Jazz Artist by Jazzwise Magazine and mentioned as one of Reader's Digest's “10 Female Jazz Musicians You need to Know" Haller has swiftly risen in prominence in the UK and beyond. ...
Mike De Souza: Chrysalis
by Neil Duggan
For many musicians, the silver-lining of enforced isolation during the pandemic was the time to write and refine new compositions. The event enabled guitarist Mike De Souza to explore concepts for the six tracks that make up his second album, Chrysalis. This follows on from his debut, Slow Burn (Self-produced, 2019). Added impetus came from forming ...
Colour of Sound
By Zoe Rahman
Label: Manushi Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dance of Time; For Love; Little Ones; Sweet
Jasmine; Go with the Flow; Roots; Unity; Peace
Garden.
Rob Luft: Dahab Days
by Chris May
In an interview with AAJ in 2020, Rob Luft was asked to name six all-time favourite albums. Number one on his list was Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset's Dream Logic (ECM, 2012), a duo project with electronicist Jan Bang. Said Luft: “It's an album that really sounds like dreams, it's wonderful how it floats for forty-five, fifty ...
Zoe Rahman: Colour of Sound
by Neil Duggan
If you have shown your virtuosity on the piano in a variety of live and studio recordings, been recognized as one of the leading lights in contemporary British jazz and won multiple awards, what do you do next? In Zoe Rahman's case, more of the same but expanded and magnified. Most often heard in a trio ...
