Results for "Chris Biscoe"

Fluid Architecture

By Ray Russell

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Escaping The Six String Cage; Turn Right At Ventura; Moon Dog; Endure; We Go Back a Short Way; The Conversation; One For Geoff; Six In – Six Out; A Room Within A Room.

Keith Tippett: 100 Best Foots Forward

by Duncan Heining
June 20, 2020

From the Albert Hall at twenty-two with a fifty-piece band to picking potatoes to make ends meet a decade later, Keith Tippett's life in music could sum up many a jazz career. After a grim '80s, things now look better for the composer, pianist and bandleader. “What I'm about to say is ridiculous but it was ...

Chris Biscoe

Born: February 5, 1947

Change Of Meaning

By Chris Biscoe

Label: Confront Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Unbuilding; The Plate.

Mike Westbrook Orchestra: Catania

by Ian Patterson
August 19, 2019

A major figure in British jazz since the late 1950s, composer-pianist Mike Westbrook continues to write, perform and record at a rate of knots which would leave contenders half his 83 years on the ropes. Four albums since 2016, including--after a gap of forty years—not one but two solo piano recordings, are testament to the creative ...

Cartoon: Change Of Meaning

by Roger Farbey
August 9, 2019

The Confront Recording's Collectors Series is distinguished by the packaging of its CDs which arrive in a DVD sized metal box. Rather than any cover art, there are instead simple stickers affixed to the front and rear denoting the artist, title and track names. The CD itself quaintly replicates the grooves and track markers of a ...

Then and Now

By Chris Biscoe

Label: Trio Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Then and Now (Biscoe); Easy Living (Rainger/Robin); Rest Easy (Biscoe); How Deep is the Ocean (Berlin arr. Neale); Lover (Rodgers/Hart); Indian Summer (Herbert); The Way You Look Tonight (Kern/Fields).

Grand Union Orchestra at Wilton's Music Hall

by Duncan Heining
June 20, 2017

Grand Union Orchestra Wilton's Music Hall London June 14, 2017 Song of Contagion, Grand Union Orchestra's latest show, would be a strange subject indeed for any other ensemble. But for leader/composer Tony Haynes and his comrades, it sits perfectly within the orchestra's progressive dialogue between the musics and ...

Mike Westbrook at Bury St. Edmunds Festival

by Duncan Heining
June 14, 2017

Mike Westbrook and Kate Westbrook Bury St. Edmunds Festival The Church of St. John the Evangelist May 19, 2017 Of all his many achievements, Mike Westbrook's The Westbrook Blake is one of his finest. Few works in jazz have combined music and text, voices and instrumentation, to such profound effect. The ...

Chris Biscoe Allison Neale: Then and Now

by Duncan Heining
May 2, 2017

The idea here is a simple one. Pick a selection of tunes--five standards, two originals--and revisit them, in the style of the Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet. That group was a brief affair, making just two records together--Gerry Mulligan-Paul Desmond Quartet and Two of a Mind. Cleverly, Biscoe and Neale have only picked two tunes covered by ...