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PianOrquestra at Belfast Festival 2013
by Ian Patterson
PianOrquestra Sonic Arts Research Centre Belfast Festival Belfast, N. Ireland October 20, 2013 Composer John Cage would have been like a little kid in a sweetie shop; a serious little kid perhaps, but one at play nonetheless, because the Sonic Arts Research Centre of the Queens University Belfast is ...
Leigh Carriage: Get Out Of Town/Mandarin Skyline
by Ian Patterson
After just one studio album in the previous eight years--Until (Self Produced, 2004)--Australian singer/composer Leigh Carriage has released not one but two albums in less than a year, showcasing different sides of her musical personality--the interpreter of standards/torch songs, and the songwriter. Lismore, NSW-based Carriage is Head of Vocal Studies at Southern Cross University, and there's ...
Magnus Ostrom: Searching For Jupiter
by Ian Patterson
Time is the great healer. Certainly there are signs that the two years since Thread of Life (ACT Music, 2011)--drummer/composer Magnus Öström's emotionally charged debut as leader--have helped him better cope with the death in 2008 of pianist Esbjorn Svensson-- his colleague of 15 years in the influential trio e.s.t. That album's cover showed a bare-chested ...
Tony Whyton: What Does Jazz Do For You?
by Ian Patterson
[The first installment of interviews with leading jazz academics as part of All About Jazz's new Rethinking Jazz Cultures series begins with Professor Tony Whyton, Director of the Salford Music Research Centre at the University of Salford.] Wherever you stand on what constitutes jazz music, jazz history and its great historical figures/landmark recordings, Tony ...
Saturday Morning
by Ian Patterson
Just over a year after Blue Moon (Jazzbook Records, 2012) Jamal's stellar homage to American cinema and Broadwaythe Pittsburgh pianist returns in the same rich vein of form on Saturday Morning. Blue Moon earned a Grammy nomination, and for the second time in recent years Jamal was invited to open the Lincoln Center season in September; ...
All About Jazz Launches Rethinking Jazz Cultures - A Series Of Interviews With Jazz's Leading Thinkers
All About Jazz presents a new column under the banner Rethinking Jazz Cultures—a monthly series of interviews by Ian Patterson with some of the leading thinkers in jazz today. Though New Jazz Studies is in fact 25-years old, there is a burgeoning growth in academic jazz research on a global level. The Rethinking Jazz Cultures monthly ...
Jeremy Monteiro Heads Jazz Organ Summit At Singapore's Esplanade, 23-24 October
Three for the price of one seems like a damned good deal, especially when we’re talking about three of jazz’s finest exponents of the organ, the KeyB organ to be precise. Jeremy Monteiro (Singapore), Alberto Marsico Italy and Tony Monaco (USA) are getting together for this Jazz Organ Summit –at the Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore, the ...
Jazz Harpist Edmar Castaneda Embarks On Six-date Irish Tour
The harp is not without precedent in jazz but it’s unlikely anyone has ever played the harp quite like Colombian harpist Edmar Castaneda. Irish audiences are in for a special treat when Castaneda embarks on a six-date tour of the country between 20th and 27th October, culminating in a performance at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. ...
Arun Ghosh: A South Asian Suite
by Ian Patterson
Clarinetist/composer Arun Ghosh's first two albums catapulted him to the forefront of the UK jazz scene. The British-Asian's beguilingly eclectic influences from India, the Middle East and UK urban culture spawned music on Northern Namaste (Camoci Records, 2008) and Primal Odyssey (Camoci Records, 2011) that interwove haunting melodies, groove-driven ensemble play and ecstatic soloing. Ghosh won ...
David Redmond: Roots
by Ian Patterson
Irish bassist David Redmond is nothing if not versatile, playing in the thrilling World music outfit Yurodny and in the small jazz combos of pianist Phil Ware, drummer Kevin Brady and veteran guitarists Tommy Hafferty and Louis Stewart. Belfast's Soulman Van Morrison has also called upon Redmond's services. Across the pond, to use Irish parlance, Redmond's ...


