Results for "Geoff Castle"

Geoff Castle

Born: June 8, 1949

New Music From Cardello, Taylor, Vollbrecht And More

by Bob Osborne
October 2, 2025

A show packed with new releases includes a couple of debut albums as well as two new releases from ECM Records and some newly found early '80s recordings from a British band led by Geoff Castle. A mix of intimate trio recordings, big band explorations and latin music is followed by a hypnotic piece of free ...

Rediscovering PAZ And More

by Bob Osborne
January 23, 2025

The featured album on the show is a remarkable collection of the work of UK band/collective PAZ which charts their recorded legacy. In addition there is a variety of music released in the latter months 2024 and some of the early releases from 2025.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 PAZ"Crotales" from Variation & Creation : The ...

PAZ: Variation and Creation: The Story of PAZ

by Tony Poole
January 5, 2025

Paz was a London-based British fusion collective formed in 1972 by vibraphonist Dick Crouch. Their sound was heavily influenced by Latin music, though not entirely. Crouch worked as a producer for the BBC Transcription Department in West London. He formed the group out of a growing dissatisfaction with the local jazz of the time, and a ...

Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows Live '75

By Neil Ardley

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1: Intro; Prologue/Rainbow 1; Interlude 1; Rainbow 2; Interlude 2; Rainbow 3 (incomplete). CD2: Rainbow 4; Rainbow 5/Rainbow 6; Interlude 3; Interlude 4; Rainbow 7; Rainbow 8; Interlude 5; Rainbow 9; Epilogue; Outro.

Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows Live '75

by Chris May
March 15, 2021

One of the more obscure but loftiest masterpieces of British jazz, composer Neil Ardley's long-form suite Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows was released on the tiny Gull Records label in 1976. Its beauty and vitality have remained absolutely unsullied by the passing years and the album has been reissued a couple of times, most recently on Dusk Fire ...

Graham Collier: Darius / Midnight Blue / New Conditions

by Nic Jones
May 9, 2010

Graham Collier Music Darius / Midnight Blue / New Conditions BGO 2009 The benefit of hindsight reveals how the three LPs, recorded in the mid-1970s, collected here form the bridge between British bassist, composer and bandleader Graham Collier's early small group work and the expansion of tonal palette and compositional ...