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Carlos Lopez-Real's Mandorla: Mandorla
by Chris May
Among the otherwise quite disparate assembly of musicians which makes up London's F-IRE collective and label, a shared sense of playfulness runs deep. Leading lights such as saxophonists Ingrid Laubrock and Finn Peters, guitarist Jonny Phillips, trumpeter and flugelhornist Tom Arthurs, cellist Ben Davis and drummer Seb Rochford--all seriously adventurous musicians--bring refreshing degrees of fun to ...
Pernille Bevort: Cowboys and Girls
by Ian Patterson
Since making her recording debut in the mid '90s, saxophonist/composer/arranger/vocalist Pernille Bevort has established herself as one of the leading lights on the Danish jazz scene, with half a dozen recordings as leader under her belt. Playground + 1 (Calibrated, 2007) provides ample proof of her outstanding musicianship, whether on tenor or soprano saxophone, as well ...
Contemporary Jazz in Denmark: Different Sounds, Different Scenes
by Jakob Baekgaard
There's an often-quoted phrase by Shakespeare saying that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark" but when it comes to jazz, the environment of the country is indeed very fertile, and at this point, the many sounds of Danish jazz are reaching across the borders and finding new listeners everywhere in the world. The homogeneity ...
Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?)
By Django Bates
Label: Lost Marble
Released: 2008
Track listing: Spring; Turning Twenty; May Day; The Right To Smile; Early Bloomer; Fire Brigade; Subjective Hooks; Something Less Soothing; Evening Primrose; Sheep.
Pianist/Composer Django Bates Interviewed at AAJ
July, 2008: It's been 13 years since British keyboard player and composer Django Bates released the third album in his “four seasons" series, Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze) (Winter & Winter, 1995). That album followed close behind Autumn Fire (And Green Shoots) (Winter & Winter, 1994) and Summer Fruits (And Unrest) (Winter & Winter, 1993). It ...
Django Bates: Spring Is Here (A Long Time Coming But Worth The Wait)
by Chris May
July, 2008: It's been 13 years since British composer and keyboards/peck horn player Django Bates released the third album in his “four seasons" series, Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze) (Winter & Winter, 1995). That album followed close behind Autumn Fire (And Green Shoots) (Winter & Winter, 1994) and Summer Fruits (And Unrest) (Winter & Winter, 1993).
Django Bates: Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?)
by Chris May
One of the true visionary geniuses of British--and indeed all--modern jazz, keyboardist and composer Django Bates is a shaman and synapse twister with a breathtakingly imaginative take on the traditions and structures he recalibrates. His energy is iconoclastic but also sunny and effervescent and benign, shot through with humor and relish of the absurd. His ideas ...
Bill Bruford: Earthly Endeavors, Heavenly Pursuits
by Ian Patterson
For twenty years drummer Bill Bruford has been the engine of Earthworks, one of Britain's most inventive and original jazz bands. Earthworks slowly revolving door has, over the years, seen the coming and going of some of Britain's finest young jazz talent, from keyboardist Django Bates and saxophonist Iain Ballamy to ex-Chick Corea sideman and current ...
Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze)
By Django Bates
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: You Can't Have Everything; The Loneliness Of Being Right; ...And A Golden Pear; New York, New York; Early Bloomer; X = Thingys x 3 - MF; Fox Across The Road; Powder Room Collapse; Kookaburra Laughed; You Can't Have Everything Reprise.
Django Bates: Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze)
by Chris May
Ten years on from its original release, digitally remastered in a handsome Winter & Winter edition, Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze) isn't so much a candidate for re-evaluation as potent testimony to the controversy that surrounded maverick British bandleader and composer Django Bates in '95. The unfettered idiosyncrasy of the album--overflowing with new ideas and previously ...
