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David Lyttle & Joseph Leighton at Caravanserail
by Ian Patterson
David Lyttle & Joseph Leighton Caravanserail Beirut, Lebanon November 22, 2019 It's a long way from Keady Clachan to Beirut. The last time the Irish duo of David Lyttle and Joseph Leighton came onto All About Jazz's radar it was in a stone and timber farm outhouse in the hills ...
Aki Takase: In The River's Flow
by Ian Patterson
After forty plus years of recording and touring Aki Takase could be forgiven for easing up a little, for pulling back on the reins. Instead, the Japanese pianist/composer's creative fire is burning as strongly as ever. Since turning seventy in 2018, Takase has released five albums--four in 2019 alone. This output of creative energy showcases the ...
Vilnius Jazz 2019
by Ian Patterson
Vilnius Jazz 2019 Russian Drama Theatre Vilnius, Lithuania October 16-20, 2019 Is a jazz festival primarily about entertainment, or is it meant to challenge the expectations of its audience? Does programming risk mean financial suicide? What responsibility does a festival have to promote young, emerging talent? What place do women ...
The Casimir Connection: Cause and Effect
by Ian Patterson
Though perhaps best known as a writer, arranger and leader of big bands, particularly the seventeen-piece Giant Steppes, saxophonist Diane McLoughlin is no stranger to the cut and thrust of small ensemble dynamics; the London-based musician plays with both the Alison Rayner Quintet and the Chris Hodgson Quartet. The Casimir Connection, however, is a different proposition; ...
Galway Jazz Festival 2019
by Ian Patterson
Galway Jazz Festival 2019 Various venues Galway, Ireland October 2-6, 2019 Bat song may be a first at a jazz festival, but then they do things differently here in Galway. Bats were in and plastic was out. No plastic laminates or cable ties, no plastic on outdoor advertising, no ...
Freedom Music: Wales, Emancipation & Jazz 1850-1950
by Ian Patterson
Freedom Music: Wales, Emancipation & Jazz 1850-1950 Jen Wilson 336 Pages ISBN: 978-1-78683-407-2 University of Wales Press 2019 The emancipation in the title of Jen Wilson's deeply researched book is two-pronged. On the one hand it refers to African American slaves risking their lives to escape pre-civil war plantations ...
European Jazz Conference 2019
by Ian Patterson
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 European Jazz Conference 2019 Various Venues Novara, Italy September 12-15, 2019 For its sixth edition the European Jazz Conference dropped anchor in sunny Italy. Where Rome or Milan might have been more obvious locations for such a high- powered international ...
The Vinyl Frontier: The Story Of The Voyager Golden Record
by Ian Patterson
The Vinyl Frontier:The Story Of The Voyager Golden Record Jonathon Scott 288 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4729-5613-2 Bloomsbury Sigma 2019 It was a message-in-a-bottle on a truly cosmic scale. In 1977, two golden records containing images, music and sounds from Earth were attached to the sides of the Voyager I ...
Jazzmeia Horn: Love & Liberation
by Ian Patterson
It's a big step for any singer, the move from interpreter of jazz standards to songwriter. And when you've been Grammy-nominated for a debut album of covers, as Jazzmeia Horn was with A Social Call (Prestige, 2017), the temptation must be to carry on in the same vein. Horn, however, clearly has greater ambition, as the ...
Trish Clowes: Sounding Colors, Playing With Gravity
by Ian Patterson
If it hadn't been that day, twenty some years ago when the young Trish Clowes first felt the pull of the tenor saxophone, it would surely have been another. Barely in her teens at the time, Shropshire-born saxophonist and award-winning composer Clowes already played piano, clarinet and sang when she went to see her ...
