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Article: Live Review

Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival 2023

Read "Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival 2023" reviewed by John Sharpe


Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival State Youth Theater Vilnius, Lithuania May 25-28, 2023 Introduction Now the largest city in the Baltic States, the Lithuanian capital Vilnius once again hosted the Mama Jazz Festival for its 23rd edition. While booking acts which might please a wide range of music lovers, the Festival ...

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Article: Album Review

Malcolm Strachan: Point Of No Return

Read "Point Of No Return" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Something exciting seems to be happening with Scottish jazz musicians--artists such as Fergus McCreadie, Matt Carmichael and Georgia Cecile are gaining awards and international acclaim. They are now joined by Scottish trumpeter Malcolm Strachan, with his second album of original material, Point Of No Return . A former member of the Haggis Horns, he has been ...

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Forest Floor

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Law Hill; The Unfurrowed Field; Morning Moon; Landslide; Forest Floor; The Ridge; White Water; Glade.

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Marram

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Far Away Ones; Dune; Road To The Sea; Waves; Marram; Horizon; On The Gloaming Shore (Pt.1); On The Gloaming Shore (Pt.2).

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Article: Year in Review

Geno Thackara's Favorites of 2022

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As with most years, the list could have easily been twice as long (and that's still without getting into an especially rich trove of archival discoveries, particularly from Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Esbjörn Svensson and Ahmad Jamal). Still, these are the staples that have just resonated the most. Fergus McCreadie Trio ...

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Article: Album Review

Matt Carmichael: Marram

Read "Marram" reviewed by Chris May


The first thing to register, within the opening few bars of Glaswegian tenor saxophonist Matt Carmichael's sophomore album, is how remarkably similar his sound is to that of New York's emerging saxophone colossus Oded Tzur. In an interview with All About Jazz in summer 2022, the Israeli-born Tzur named his primary formative influence as the great ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

3x3: Piano Trios: March 2022

Read "3x3: Piano Trios: March 2022" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Fergus McCreadie Forest Floor Edition Records 2022 The sound of the Fergus McCreadie Trio is the sound of joy. While there are recognizable elements in the mix from bop to (primarily) earthy folk, the brilliant outfit's music isn't a fusion of styles so much an impressionistic whirlwind. The exuberance here makes ...

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Article: Year in Review

Geno Thackara's Favorites of 2021

Read "Geno Thackara's Favorites of 2021" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Insert the usual cliches here as you see fit: strange times, “new normal," all that stuff. Still, even while some of us give up on terms like “normal" and get used to the idea that there may never be a post-Covid world, great music and art never stops. Amidst another bumper crop of more things than ...

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Cairn

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: North; Cairn; Across Flatlands; The Stones of Brodgar; Jig; Tide; Tree Climbing; An Old Friend; Cliffside.

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Where Will The River Flow

Label: Porthole Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Sognsvann; Firth; Canonbridge; The Spey; Interlude; Hopeful Mornings; Where Will The River Flow; Dear Grandma; Valley.


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