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Article: Album Review

Gwilym Simcock: Good Days At Schloss Elmau

Read "Good Days At Schloss Elmau" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


The world of jazz is currently enjoying a surfeit of great piano players, and the ACT label is home to some of the most innovative: musicians such as Michael Wollny of [em], Yaron Herman and Danilo Rea. Gwilym Simcock is the latest addition to the ACT roster with his solo Good Days At Schloss Elmau, a ...

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Blues Vignette

Label: Basho Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: CD 1: 1. Little People - 6:56; 2. Exploration on Mvt II Of Grieg Piano Concerto - 8:34; 3. On Broadway (Mann/Well) - 4:13; 4. Improvisation I - Statues - 3:06; 5. Improvisation II - Letter to the Editor - 3:49; 6. Improvisation III - Be Still Now - 4:04; 7. Caldera - 8:38; 8. Jaco and Joe - 9:21; Suite for Cello and Piano: 9. Part 1 - Kinship - 14:57; 10. Part 2 - Homeward - 6:04. CD 2: 1. Introduction - 4:46; 2. Tundra - 7:04; 3. Blues Vignette - 8:12; 4. Black Coffee (S. Burke) - 5:23; 5. Longing to Be - 6:35; 6. Nice Work If You Can Get It (G. Gershwin) - 6:35; 7. Cry Me a River (A. Hamilton) - 8:05; 8. 1981 - 8:29. Ove non indicato le composizioni sono di Gwilym Simcock.

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Article: Interview

Ranjit Barot: Beautiful Collision

Read "Ranjit Barot: Beautiful Collision" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Ranjit Barot is a well-known figure in India's music industry, where for many years he has written film scores, produced Indie pop, and, more recently, composed and directed the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi. Barot, who spent the first 12 years of his life ...

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Article: Live Review

New Universe Music Festival: Day 1, November 20, 2010

Read "New Universe Music Festival: Day 1, November 20, 2010" reviewed by John Kelman


Day 1 | Day 2 The New Universe Music FestivalRaleigh, North CarolinaNovember 20-21, 2010 With so many jazz festivals taking place around the world--and new ones emerging each and every year--just as it's become increasingly challenging, in this world of DIY recordings, for artists to filter through and be heard, how ...

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Article: Album Review

Ranjit Barot: Bada Boom

Read "Bada Boom" reviewed by John Kelman


He was the rhythmic center of John McLaughlin's Floating Point (Abstract Logix, 2008)--an album that found the fusion guitar great exploring his decades-long interest in an east/west nexus from the electrified and harmony-centric angle of the jazz tradition, rather than the opposing angle of his longstanding and largely acoustic Shakti and Remember Shakti groups, which weighed ...

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Take Five With Gwilym Simcock

Read "Take Five With Gwilym Simcock" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Gwilym Simcock: I started the piano at the age of three, and since then all I've ever wanted to do is make music. My father taught me from a very early age, and then I attended the junior department of Trinity College of Music in London and then Chetham's School of Music for 9 years. ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Stan Sulzmann’s Neon Quartet: A New Fluorescence

Read "Stan Sulzmann’s Neon Quartet: A New Fluorescence" reviewed by Chris May


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 ...

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Article: Interview

Julian Joseph: Joining Jazz and Baseball

Read "Julian Joseph: Joining Jazz and Baseball" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Julian Joseph is something of a jazz master of all trades. Pianist, composer, bandleader, arranger, broadcaster and educator, Joseph is constantly busy, always working on new ideas and projects, spreading the word about music, encouraging young performers and generally promoting jazz around the world. With Shadowball Joseph has turned his attention to the relationship between jazz ...

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Composer/Pianist Julian Joseph Interviewed at All About Jazz

Composer/Pianist Julian Joseph Interviewed at All About Jazz

Julian Joseph is something of a jazz master of all trades. Pianist, composer, bandleader, arranger, broadcaster and educator, Joseph is constantly busy, always working on new ideas and projects, spreading the word about music, encouraging young performers and generally promoting jazz around the world. With Shadowball Joseph has turned his attention to the relationship between jazz ...

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News: Award / Grant

Jazz Unites The House As Yamaha Honor Britain's 2010 Jazz Scholars

The hugely successful, high-powered and influential partnership between Yamaha in association with Jazzwise, PPL and the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group celebrated the fourth year of its Jazz Scholarship programme at the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group's annual 'Summer Jazz' event in association with Jazzwise and PPL in the House of Commons on Wednesday ...


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