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Connection
By Empirical
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Initiate the Initiations; Anxiety Society; Stay the Course; Driving Force; Lethe; The
Maze; Card Clash; The Two-Edged Sword; Mind Over Mayhem; It’s Out of Your
Hands.
Out 'N' In
By Empirical
Label: Naim Label
Released: 2008
Track listing: Out But In; Hat & Beard; A Conversation; So He Left; A Bitter End For A Tender
Giant; Dolphyus Morphyus; Interlude; Gazzelloni; Syndicalism; Another
Conversation; Bowden Out.
Empirical: Out 'N' In
by Jakob Baekgaard
One of the great things about tributes is that they allow one to revisit and appreciate the influence of artists that deserve more exposure. This is definitely the case with the British group Empirical's tribute to reed player and composer, Eric Dolphy. Out 'n' In was released in 2009 and is still a text book example ...
Empirical: Connection
by Glenn Astarita
This is a young and intensely hip quartet who received a MOBO (Music of Black Origin) award in 2010 for Best Jazz Act in the UK, yet Connection is the musicians inaugural effort for USA-based Cuneiform Records. Similarities to the output of fellow countrymen, saxophonist Django Bates and Led Bib may be in order, primarily due ...
Kit Downes and Tom Challenger: Organ Crawling
by Duncan Heining
Pianist-organist Kit Downes is one of the brightest and most articulate talents to emerge from the British and European scenes in recent times. His refusal to be pinned down to any specific career path or musical trajectory is to his credit but even more so is his ability to produce authentic music without compromise across style, ...
Theo Jackson: Jericho
by Bruce Lindsay
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 ...
Fini Bearman: Step Up
by Bruce Lindsay
Step Up is the debut from British vocalist/songwriter Fini Bearman. Bearman has studied with Judy Niemack, and lists Gretchen Parlato as an influence--two singers with the ability to inhabit the lyrics of a song, giving the impression that even well-worn songbook standards were written about their lives. Bearman shares that quality and also has Cassandra Wilson's ...
Empirical: Elements Of Truth
by Chris May
EmpiricalElements Of TruthNaim Jazz2011 Empirical's second album, Out 'n' In (Naim, 2009), is a hard act to follow. The salute to reed player Eric Dolphy deservedly won the band Best Jazz Act in the 2010 MOBO Awards. Elements Of Truth rises confidently, if not wholly successfully, to ...
Jay Phelps Big Band: Snape, UK, August 17, 2011
by Bruce Lindsay
Jay Phelps Big BandSnape MaltingsSnape, UKAugust 17, 2011 Trumpeter Jay Phelps, a native of Vancouver who moved to the UK in his teens, first came to the attention of the British jazz scene as a member of Tomorrow's Warriors. In his early 20s he co-founded Empirical, playing on that band's debut ...
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