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Django Bates: Like Life
by Chris May
Django BatesLike LifeStoryville2011 (1998) If you had to choose one artifact which is emblematic of the work of the British composer, bandleader and keyboards and e-flat horn player Django Bates, then his notorious “derangement" of John Kander and Fred Ebb's “New York, New York" would be a ...
The Garana Jazz Festival: Garana, Romania, July 21-24, 2011
by Adriana Carcu
The Garana Jazz Festival Garana, Romania July 21-24, 2011 Hidden in the heart of the Western Carpathians, the small village of Garana, --also called Wolfsberg by the Bohemian colonists who have inhabited it until some 30 years ago--has developed, during the last decades, into an international artist colony--hosting, for the 15th time this ...
Jazz no Parque: July 15-17, 2011
by John Kelman
Mário Laginha e Convidados Jazz no Parque Fundação Serralves July 16, 2011 An invite to Porto, Portugal in the middle of the summer, to catch a single performance--a world premiere, at that--and spend some time soaking up the landscape and culture? Hard enough to resist under any circumstances, but when the ...
Billy Jenkins: Jazz Gives Me The Blues
by Chris May
Billy JenkinsJazz Gives Me The BluesVOTP Records2011 If the title Jazz Gives Me The Blues suggests that London guitarist/vocalist Billy Jenkins is hacked off with jazz, you would be right. Kind of. What Jenkins objects to is the gentrification and institutionalization of jazz, once--a quantum leap from ...
John Martin Quartet: Dawning
by Chris May
The debut album from London saxophonist John Martin comes with some heavyweight commendations. Flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler, whose music inspired one tune and whose influence courses through the disc, calls it “a lovely album," and saxophonist Iain Ballamy says it is “an honest, cohesive and sophisticated release." Dawning introduces an engaging young saxophonist, in whose music echoes ...
Take Five With Roy Powell
by AAJ Staff
Meet Roy Powell:Roy Powell studied piano and avant-garde composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester England, before defecting to jazz. He first came to prominence in 1994 with his debut recording, A Big Sky, which was hailed as “a real benchmark in British contemporary electric jazz" by Jazz on CD. He ...
Loose Tubes: Tomorrow Night is Your Last Chance Ever
by Bruce Lindsay
Twenty years after legendary British big band Loose Tubes played its farewell gigs at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, its first live album, Dancing On Frith Street (Lost Marble Records, 2010), became Jazzwise magazine's Archive Album of 2010. In the intervening decades, the band's members had spread across the British and international jazz scenes to become ...
Loose Tubes: Dancing On Frith Street
by Bruce Lindsay
Twenty years after the legendary Loose Tubes played its final gigs, Dancing On Frith Street, a live album taken from those valedictory performances at London's Ronnie Scott's Club in September 1990, offers a chance for jazz fans of a certain age to reminisce, and an opportunity for those who missed the band's performances the first time ...
Nils Petter Molvaer: Colors, Noises and Moods
by Adriana Carcu
Trumpeter/composer Nils Petter Molvær is one of the main exponents of Nordic Jazz--a geographic ramification that has acquired, especially during the last decade, the status of an independent genre. He has created his own style by combining traditional instrumental elements with electronic sound processing: a fusion characterized by pregnant rhythmical patterns and a meditative mood.
Trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer Interviewed at All About Jazz
Trumpeter/composer Nils Petter Molvær is one of the main exponents of Nordic Jazz—a geographic ramification that has acquired, especially during the last decade, the status of an independent genre. He has created his own style by combining traditional instrumental elements with electronic sound processing: a fusion characterized by pregnant rhythmical patterns and a meditative mood. Molvær ...
