Results for "Ian Matthews"

Ian Matthews

Memory In Motion

By George Cooper

Label: Haggis Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Meanderthal; The Long Haul; Chasing Fantasies; Rolling On A High; Take A Minute; Fuffle Kershuffle; Snakebite Playfight; Net Zero; Enigma.

The Jazz Defenders: Memory In Motion

by Chris May
April 7, 2024

If there is one quality of first generation NYC hard bop which no twenty-first century band has succeeded in capturing it is the snarling half-valve badness which coursed through Lee Morgan's music. The absence is not surprising, for Morgan's vibe was a real-time product of the demi-monde in which he moved and that world is gone ...

Gary Alesbrook: The Stories We Tell Ourselves

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
November 25, 2019

It's hard to believe this is only trumpeter Gary Alesbrook's second record under his own name. Like Venus emerging fully-formed from the head of Zeus, Alesbrook's tasteful proficiency is truly startling until you realize it was honed outside of jazz, with years of busy sideman efforts in other types of music. Another surprise is ...