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Josh Ison: Perceive React
by Budd Kopman
The road to saxophonist Josh Ison's debut recording Perceive React is a very interesting one of connecting up with and finding players whom one admires, asking them to take part in a recording session, their acceptance, and finally their meeting for the first time and clicking impressively.Ison had been concentrating on finding the core ...
Alex Merritt Quartet: Anatta
by Budd Kopman
Everyone, listeners and composers/players bring their life experience to the music at hand. Jazz musicians in particular, especially today when many, if not most, compose as well as perform, pour themselves once into a composition, and then again when performing it. The performer aims to virtually disappear, to separate the distance and space between himself and ...
Age of Austerity
Album: New World
By Vitor Pereira
Label: F-IRE Records
Released: 2016
Duration: 08:36
Vitor Pereira Quintet: New World
by Phil Barnes
Vitor Pereira reveals in the sleeve notes that the inspiration for this collection was the fear that our world had reached a tipping point “where an increasingly globalised economic system powered by unscrupulous profit orientated multinational corporations is on the verge of collapse." It's a plea for a new, fairer, world where wealth is not concentrated ...
Vitor Pereira Quintet: New World
by Bruce Lindsay
New World is the second album from this quintet, led by the London-based Portuguese guitarist and composer Vitor Pereira. Like the band's 2012 debut, Doors, the music reflects the many influences which Pereira has learnt from but New World sees his work move a step further, his voice as a writer and instrumentalist developing a more ...
Vitor Pereira Quintet: New World
by Roger Farbey
This is Portugal-born, now London-based Vitor Pereira's second album for the F-IRE label which again features alto saxophonist Chris Williams, already renowned in the UK for his stellar work with Led Bib and Let Spin. It takes just a few plays but once you “get it," the albums starts to fall into place as something quite ...
Alex Merritt Quartet: Anatta
by Tyran Grillo
It should be no wonder that Alex Merritt should be a practitioner of Vipassanā meditation. The English tenor saxophonist translates that very focus on mindful breathing to the horn with seamless concentration and awareness of heart. A child of Cambridge and graduate of the Birmingham Conservatoire, Merritt has found a character-building groove among bassist Sam Lasserson, ...
Magna Carta Suite
By Alex Hutton
Label: F-IRE Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Old Yew; King John's Hunting Lodge; The Barons; June 15th 1215; Gutenburg Press; Gunpowder And Compass; Self Made Man; The Fog Of War; King John's Hunting Lodge (Reprise); Old Yew (Reprise); Thoughts Bear Heirs To Memory; As Sunlight Passes (Old Yew).
Alex Hutton Trio: Magna Carta Suite
by Bruce Lindsay
Eight hundred years after the creation of the Magna Carta--the Great Charter that signalled a shift in power from the English monarchy to the English aristocracy--pianist Alex Hutton and his trio draw inspiration from that shift in power distribution to create the Magna Carta Suite. Hutton's trio is based in the UK but has ...
