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Take Five With Tim Richards
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tim Richards: Tim's first encounter with a piano was at the age of eight, in a dentist's waiting room. After classical piano lessons he taught himself jazz and blues from the age of 14, after seeing Thelonious Monk on TV.Since forming the long-lived modern jazz quartet Spirit Level in Bristol in ...
Photographing the World's Best Jazz Scene
by Bruce Lindsay
JazzLife UK--a simple idea. I'll spend much of 2010 travelling around the United Kingdom photographing the jazz scene and asking some of its members what they think about the current state of UK jazz. I'll photograph musicians, venues, performances, rehearsals, sound checks, record label executives, promoters, agents, presenters, DJs and anyone or anything else that forms ...
Rich Mix Winter 2010: Live Music and Jazz on the Screen
Rich Mix JAZZ Music, Film and more Jan - Apr 2010 Rich Mix 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road London E1 6LA Rich Mix breaks boundaries this season with a jazz programme that combines music with film, history, literature and politics. The programme begins with the explosive Let Freedom Ring! ...
Omar Puente: From There To Here
by Chris May
Originally a classical violinist--before settling in England in 1997 he was first violin with the Nacional Symphony Orquestra in his native Cuba--Omar Puente has since focused on modern Cuban music and jazz, exploring the mutalities of the two traditions, and increasingly favoring an electric instrument. From There To Here is, remarkably given Puente's distinguished guest artist ...
Denys Baptiste: Jazz Missionary, Part 2-2
by Paul Olson
Part 1 | Part 2 London saxophonist Denys Baptiste made a huge splash in the U.K. when his debut 1999 CD Be Where You Are was shortlisted as a prestigious Mercury Prize Album of the Year. Jazz fans were perhaps less surprised, as Baptiste had apprenticed for years on record and in concert with the likes ...
Denys Baptiste: Jazz Missionary, Part 1-2
by Paul Olson
Part 1 | Part 2 London saxophonist Denys Baptiste made a huge splash in the U.K. when his debut 1999 CD Be Where You Are was shortlisted as a prestigious Mercury Prize Album of the Year. Jazz fans were perhaps less surprised, as Baptiste had apprenticed for years on record and in concert with the likes ...
Denys Baptiste: Let Freedom Ring!
by John Kelman
With jazz becoming such a broad landscape that labels are increasingly difficult to apply, it's difficult, if not impossible, to identify specific new movements like the ones that appeared in the middle decades of the 20th Century. While there have been all kinds of innovations to be sure, there hasn't been anything quite so sweeping as ...
Denys Baptiste: Let Freedom Ring!
by Paul Olson
London tenor saxophonist Denys Baptiste aims for the sun and stars with his four-part, large-ensemble suite Let Freedom Ring! What is striking is just how wildly, and wonderfully, his ambitions are realized by the final product. The piece was commissioned by the Cheltenham International Jazz Festival to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's ...
Let Freedom Ring!
Label: Dune Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: I Have a Dream; With This Faith; Let Freedom Ring!; Free at Last!
