Results for "George Crowley"

George Crowley

Alive In The Empire

Label: Dave De Rose Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Alive I; Alive II; Alive III; Alive IV; Alive V; Alive VI; Alive VII.

Agile Experiments: Alive In The Empire

By IAN PATTERSON

The clue is the name. Take a handful of musicians, place them in front of an audience and say “ready, steady go." Since starting Agile Experiments in 2015, multi-instrumentalist Dave De Rose has marshaled dozens of musicians for his sonic experiments, whereby small combos play entirely improvised one-hour gigs. Alive in the Empire, the fifth release ...

Yazz Ahmed: The Inclusive Saboteuse

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

Pretty much from the beginning of her career, trumpet and flugelhorn player Yazz Ahmed has been intent on sabotaging the walls and fences that divide the jazz world, championing an inclusive vision in which Arabic traditions blend seamlessly with loops and electronics, and rock and pop can offer jazz plenty of inspiration. Two years ...

Brussels Jazz Festival 2019

By MARTIN LONGLEY

Brussels Jazz Festival Flagey Brussels, Belgium January 10-19, 2019 The Brussels Jazz Festival is a relative newcomer, but this ambitious 10-dayer managed to sell out around two thirds of its gigs, and was overall the most successful in attendance for this fifth edition. Concerts are held in the ...

Ivo Neame: Moksha

By GENO THACKARA

A solo album is generally a defining statement of identity, especially for musicians who juggle multiple outlets, but Ivo Neame has such a hard time sitting still that even he must have a hard time pinning down his sound for very long. His piano makes a key voice (pun unintended) in the Escape Hatch quartet and ...

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 ...

Can Of Worms

By GEORGE CROWLEY

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2015
Track listing: The Opener; Whirl; Ubiquitous Up Tune In 3; Rum Paunch; I'm Not Here To Reinvent The Wheel; Terminal; T-Leaf.

George Crowley: Can Of Worms

By BRUCE LINDSAY

A tin full of slimy, wriggly, things bursts open, scaring the oddly mismatched young couple. It's not your usual jazz album cover art, but it suits the title of the second album from young UK saxophonist George Crowley--Can Of Worms--and Crowley carries on the motif with further creepy-crawlies on the inside of the sleeve. Not that ...