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Article: Live Review

JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014

Read "JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014" reviewed by Henning Bolte


JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014 Bergen, Norway May 21-25, 2014 Bergen, the second largest city of Norway along the northwestern coast of the North Sea, is situated along an impressive mountainous bay. Protected against and open to the sea, to the world it is an illustrious place of a centuries-old merchant tradition, ...

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Article: Scumbles

Jazz in the UK now

Read "Jazz in the UK now" reviewed by Sammy Stein


The jazz scene in the UK is buzzing at the moment. Clubs whose managers not so long ago were faced with the difficult decision whether to continue offering new sounds to a dwindling audience or turn themselves into a wine bar--offering small slices of live music to appease their consciences perhaps--are finding it was worth hanging ...

News: Recording

Whirlwind Recordings Announces Upcoming Releases

Whirlwind Recordings Announces Upcoming Releases

Whirlwind Recordings announces its bumper-crop of upcoming releases for 2014, featuring an eclectic mix of standout albums from known and up-and-coming artists based in NYC, London and beyond. Here's a snapshot: March 11, 2104: Leave the Door Open by Joel Harrison & Anupam Shobhakar. A brand new collaboration featuring cutting edge western improvisation, roots music and ...

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Article: Album Review

Slowly Rolling Camera: Slowly Rolling Camera

Read "Slowly Rolling Camera" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


A band name--and album title--like Slowly Rolling Camera gives little if anything away about the nature of the music to be experienced on this, the debut album from the UK-based quartet. Good--for surprises can be fun. Once the music becomes familiar--the beautiful, imaginative and ambitious compositions become firmly fixed in the mind--the surprise is revealed to ...

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Article: Album Review

Metamorphic: Coalescence

Read "Coalescence" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Laura Cole, leader, pianist, arranger and songwriter of Metamorphic, dedicates Coalescence, the band's second album, to her great grandfathers Sidney Walker and Mervyn Clifford Cole. What would the two men, pictured in the album booklet's 1923 photo of the Irlam Co-operative Wholesale Orchestra, make of their great-granddaughter's approach to music? We'll never know, but the Orchestra's ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Kit Downes: Old Stars, New Blues

Read "Kit Downes: Old Stars, New Blues" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Saturday 30th April 2011. The young British pianist and composer Kit Downes has travelled to this west of England town to première his latest composition, Animation Migration, at the Playhouse Theatre. It was an unusual event for a jazz festival. Downes' band played music inspired by the story of evolution and DNA alongside ...

Album

Moxxy

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Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Rarebit; 02. Dropsy; 03. Crawler; 04. Oedipus; 05. Rest; 06. Island; 07. Zebra; 08. Chaplin.

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Article: Album Review

Trish Clowes: And In The Night-Time She Is There

Read "And In The Night-Time She Is There" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Shortly after the release of And In The Night-Time She Is There, her second album, saxophonist Trish Clowes became a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, an honor that goes to the most talented young musicians from the worlds of classical and jazz music. Clowes is a worthy recipient, not least because she crosses the increasingly ...

Article: Album Review

Troyka: Moxxy

Read "Moxxy" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


I Troyka sono un trio esplosivo che esplora le forme del riff come elemento costitutivo delle diverse espressioni afferenti alla popular music. Tra progressive rock, jazz e funky, il gruppo conferisce alla classica formula dell'organo hammond-chitarra-batteria un groove inedito dove i loops elettronici e ritmi drum and bass vanno ad incastonarsi in strutture formali d'ascendenza rock. ...

Album

Troyka

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Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Tax Return; 02. Clint; 03. 1.40; 04. Golden; 05. Bear; 06. Cajoch; 07. Twelve; 08. Born in the 80's; 09. Noonian Soong; 10. Call; 11. Zeitgesit. Composizioni di Chris Montague tranne #4,5,10 di Kit Downes.


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