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Instrument: Saxophone
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Soothsayers Meets Victor Rice & Friends

Label: Red Earth Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Flying East; Last Days; The Slow Life; Effra Nights; The Slow Life Dub; Flying East Dub; Last Days Dub; Effra Nights Dub.
Soothsayers: Soothsayers Meets Victor Rice & Friends

by Chris May
Nobody does it better, so the song goes, though whether the innuendo resonates most strongly with the singer, Carly Simon, or the lyrics's supposed protagonist, James Bond, depends, as it were, on the direction in which the listener is pointing. But whatever. In the context of Soothsayers Meets Victor Rice & Friends, the song's hook becomes ...
TC & The Groove Family: First Home

by Chris May
The nine-piece collective TC & The Groove Family are based in the northern English city of Leeds. All but one of the members studied at Leeds College of Music. They play a goodtime mash-up of Afrobeat, jazz, funk, hip hop, dub and samba, reflecting the cultural melting pot which exists in most English cities and which ...
From George Coleman to Meeco: Ten Overlooked Classics

by Chris May
The only thread running through this installment of Building A Jazz Library is that of unsung quality. No particular artist is spotlighted, nor any particular genre. There are simply ten, randomly selected albums, recorded in the US and Europe between 1953 and 2021, which show jazz off at its finest, but which, for one reason or ...
Brilliant Corners 2022

by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners 2022 The Black Box jny:Belfast, N. Ireland March 4-12, 2022 Brilliant Corners is ten. Belfast's onliest jazz festival celebrated the milestone by welcoming audiences back to The Black Box after 2021's virtual edition. When Brilliant Corners was last held here before a live audience, in March 2020, Covid ...
Better Times

Label: Tropic of Love Music.
Released: 2021
Track listing: Blue; Yellow; Green; Red.
Liminal Space

Label: New Soil
Released: 2021
Track listing: First Light; Sandstorm; Loosed; Dust; Dervish; Pearls; LightTrails; Knuckles; The Lurch; Prayer.
Ill Considered - Reconsidered

by Karl Ackermann
London Calling, AgainAround 2010, the South London jazz scene began breaking with tradition for an alternative union of music rooted in global cultures. It represented a fundamental change in the way young Londoners related to music; the rhythms were infused with hip hop, spiritual jazz, dubstep, funk, groove, reggae, and future soul in various combinations. In ...
Ill Considered: Liminal Space

by Chris May
London's semi-free trio Ill Considered makes music in much the same way as does tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd's duo, Binker and Moses--using simple rhythmelodic motifs as jumping off points for otherwise unstructured improvisation, much of it blazingly intense. Originally a quartet, Ill Considered now comprises founder members tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist ...