Results for "Gordon Beck"

Gordon Beck: British Piano Legend Dies at 76

November 7, 2011

British piano legend Gordon Beck passed away on November 5th, 2011. Gordon performed and recorded with many of the worlds finest musicians including Tubby Hayes, Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Clyne, John McLaughlin, Tony Oxley, Lena Horne, {{Helen Merrill, John Stevens, Jimmy Deuchar, Alan Ganley, Kenny Wheeler and many more. His musical legacy lives on in the dozens ...

Stan Sulzmann’s Neon Quartet: A New Fluorescence

by Chris May
October 18, 2010

Neon QuartetCatch MeEdition Records2010 Among the albums released by British saxophonists in 2010, two at least are destined for the best-of-year lists. One is Nat Birchall's Guiding Spirit (Gondwana), the other is Catch Me by Stan Sulzmann's Neon Quartet. There are similarities. To varying degrees, each saxophonist takes John Coltrane's ...

Appleby Blues

By Gordon Beck

Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2007

Jazz Trio

By Gordon Beck

Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Suite No. 5: 1st Movement, 2nd Movement, 3rd Movement; All In the Morning: 1st Movement, 2nd Movement.

Gordon Beck: Jazz Trio

by Marc Medwin
July 5, 2006

British pianist Gordon Beck is simply not as well known here in the States as he should be, given his long and fruitful career, and hopefully this reissue of a 1972 release on the Italian Dire label will help set that right. The propulsive rhythm section of what at that time constituted the Phil Woods Rhythm ...

Gyroscope

By Gordon Beck

Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Gyroscope 2. Clusters 3. Suite No. 1 4. Miss T. Flying 5. Sincerity 6. And Still She Is With Me/Oxus

Gordon Beck: Gyroscope

by A. Henkin
July 17, 2002

Like Stan Tracey and Howard Riley, British pianist Gordon Beck suffers from his own obscurity. In addition to having played with the considerable British personality Allan Holdsworth, Beck's third and fourth records as leader, Experiments with Pops (released by Major Minor) and Gyroscope (released on Morgan), featured two of British jazz' major figures, guitarist John McLaughlin ...

Experiments with POP / The Things I See

By Gordon Beck

Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2001
Track listing:

Experiments With POP: These Boot Are Made For Walking; Norwegian Wood; Sunny; Up, Up And Away; Michelle; I Can See For Miles; Good Vibrations; Monday, Monday. (Total Time: 39:32)

The Things I See: The Sixteen Men Of Tain; Shadows Of; Temporary Fault; Mr. Berwell; The Things You See; Wish; Devil Take The Hindmost; Kinder; Looking Glass. (Total Time: 39:32)

The Gordon Beck Quartet / Gary Husband: Experiments with POP / The Things I See

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2001

The wares of a new independent jazz label. I was not holding out much hope for these recordings. I had just listened to and reviewed Bobby Timmons— Quartets and Orchestra (Milestone 47091), which included some jazz treatments of late 1960s pop songs that did not completely work. In that case, I felt that the effort to ...

Once Is Never Enough

By Gordon Beck

Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Released: 1996