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The Sax Section: Oh Gee!
From time to time, I post on albums that showcase saxophone sections. What can I say, I'm a sucker for reeds. The last time I posted on such an album was in June, when I wrote about Jay Cameron's International Sax Band from 1955 and provided a long list of my favorite sax section albums (go ...
The Gascoyne O'Higgins Quartet: The Real Note Vol. 2
by Bruce Lindsay
It's the facts. Many inquisitive people spend their lives in pursuit of the facts. For the questing jazz musician, by contrast, the contrafacts take precedence. That's certainly the case for the UK's Gascoyne O'Higgins Quartet. The band's second collection of such tunes based on the chord changes from Songbook standards, The Real Note Vol. 2, features ...
Take Five With Matt Ridley
by Matt Ridley
Meet Matt Ridley: I graduated from Trinity College of Music in Greenwich, London in 2005 and have been a full time bassist since then. Music has taken me all around the world and I've been very privileged to perform regularly with some of the finest jazz musicians in UK like Jason Yarde, John Turville, and ...
Fast Foot Shuffle
Label: Candid Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Bebop;
Chair Dance;
North Station;
Fast Foot Shuffle;
Mad Woman;
Giant Steps;
Get It Yourself;
On Your Marks;
Ecclesbourne Stomp;
South London Samba;
Sludgepump;
Wake Up Call;
Caravan;
and for the brave and patient, Demons.
Dave O'Higgins: Fast Foot Shuffle
by Ben McDonnell
The idea of an album conceived for a jazz dance group may set alarm bells ringing for many. Whilst Fast Foot Shuffle was written for the talented JazzCotech Dancers, preconceptions and fears that the music may have been compromised in some way are soon waylaid as one listens to O'Higgins' lively collection of reworked standards and ...
Big Shake Up
Label: Candid Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Big Shake Up; Old Self; At Long Last;
The Dave O'Higgins Biggish Band: Big Shake Up
by Jack Bowers
British saxophonist Dave O’Higgins’ Biggish Band is what we used to call a tentet — but the ensemble is having so much fun playing his picturesque and always interesting charts on Big Shake Up that we won’t hold it against him. O’Higgins the composer draws on a number of influences from traditional and contemporary Jazz to ...
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