Results for "Derek Nash"

Derek Nash

You've Got To Dig It To Dig It, You Dig?

By Derek Nash

Label: Jazzizit
Released: 2015
Track listing: Secret Love; Let Some Things Go By; You've Got To Dig It To Dig It, You Dig?; Time Lag; Swing Thing; Homecoming; Vertigo; I'm Getting Temperamental Over You; Winter Solstice; Keep It To Yourself; Morning Glory.

Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet: You've Got To Dig It To Dig It, You Dig?

by Bruce Lindsay
September 26, 2015

You've Got To Dig It To Dig It, You Dig?: not just a groovy album title, but wise words of advice. Saxophonist and bandleader Derek Nash clearly takes this advice to heart, crafting an album that's filled with eminently dig-able music. The advice that inspires Nash and his fellow players, as well as inspiring ...

Trudy Kerr: Contemplation

by Bruce Lindsay
January 15, 2015

Subtitled The Best Of Trudy Kerr, Contemplation is a retrospective of the singer's career through selections from her ten album discography. Contemplation takes in Kerr's career from Blossom Dearie's “Sweet Surprise"--a track from her debut album (Sweet Surprise, Jazzizit Records, 1997)--through to “Poppies," from The Rhythm of Life: Ted And Gladys (Jazzizit Records, 2013), ...

Funkerdeen

By Derek Nash

Label: Jazzizit
Released: 2014
Track listing: Funkerdeen; Seville; Blue For You; Draggin' On The Ground; Mambo No.7; Here With Me; Sticky Finger Boogie; Walkin' On Air; Voodoo Rex.

Sax Appeal: Funkerdeen

by Bruce Lindsay
May 28, 2014

Three decades since it was established, by leader and alto player Derek Nash, the UK's Sax Appeal still retains the fire and enthusiasm of youth--and a five saxophone front line that's more than capable of translating that energy into a big, bold, crowd-pleasing sound. Funkerdeen is the band's sixth album. As the title suggests, funk is ...

Kai Hoffman: Do It While You Can

by Bruce Lindsay
March 15, 2013

The visual image, the cover design and the positivity of the album title--Do It While You Can--all point in the general direction of a Good Time about to be had. Singer (and French horn player) Kai Hoffman ensures that a good time is exactly what's on offer, crafting a set of songs that makes the most ...

Theo Jackson: Jericho

by Bruce Lindsay
May 18, 2012

Singer, pianist and songwriter Theo Jackson lives in Oxford, of university fame, and his debut album Jericho is named after an area of the city rather than the ancient town that suffered so much from an excessively loud horn section. There's no need to fear excessively loud horns here: Jackson and his quartet build drama with ...

Joyriding

By Derek Nash

Label: Jazzizit
Released: 2011
Track listing: Joyriding; Waltz For My Father; All The Things You Are; Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme); The Time Of Your Life; Be My Valentine; Majolica; Love At First Sound; Voodoo Rex; Haunting Me; Be My Valentine (vocal version).

Derek Nash: Joyriding

by Bruce Lindsay
October 20, 2011

One of the strengths of the current British jazz scene comes from its core of mainstream, straight-ahead musicians, who focus their creative abilities on drawing fresh nuances from established musical styles; saxophonist Derek Nash is one of them. Joyriding features what he refers to as his “regular quartet," although that phrase does scant justice to the ...