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Mike Westbrook: Art Wolf at 75

by Duncan Heining
Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine a jazz composer who began with Ellington and then moved on through Mingus. He soon encompassed rock music, Kurt Weill, Rossini, the traditions of English church music and the pastoralism of Vaughan Williams and Holst, but still found a place in his music for The Beatles, European political cabaret ...
Soft Machine: NDR Jazz Workshop –Hamburg, Germany 1973

by Nic Jones
By May, 1973, Soft Machine was well on its way from being a truly remarkable outfit to being a comparatively anonymous fusion band. This CD and DVD set goes to show this, but at least the music is played with the kind of fire that wasn't apparent on their studio albums of the time.
Soft Machine: NDR Jazz Workshop - Hamburg, Germany May 17, 1973

by John Kelman
Every year it seems that more archive material is unearthed from Soft Machine, the legendary British group that began life in Dadaist psychedelia, but wound down as a powerhouse, chops-centric, fusion outfit at the end of the 1970s, with stops in more complex writing and free jazz territory along the way. As influenced by minimalist composers ...
Golden Section
By Gary Boyle
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. Illusion; 02. Rangoon Creeper; 03. Attila; 04. Spanish Sun; 05. Crunch Cake; 06. Mr. M's Picture;
07. Frog; 08. Attila; 09. Spanish Sun; 10. Lily Kong; 11. Edorian; 12. Golden Section; 13. Illusion.
Isotope: Golden Section

by Andrey Henkin
It is with great sadness that the recent passing of electric bassist Hugh Hopper (1945-2009), one of the most original stylists on his instrument, is mourned. Hopper is best known for his tenure in Soft Machine (part of the Canterbury scene, lumped in with progressive rockers like King Crimson and Frank Zappa, and ...
Isotope: Golden Section

by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista anglo-indiano Gary Boyle ha davvero molti punti di contatto con John McLaughlin e questo album di inediti, appena pubblicato dalla Cuneiform, ci offre ulteriori conferme di un assunto che risulta essere inoppugnabile. Intanto il chitarrista è partito come side-man del funambolico Brian Auger, prendendo il posto nei Trinity della voce di Julie Driscoll, verso ...