Results for "IN2"

Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2026

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2026

Brilliant Corners 2026Black Box/Various VenuesBelfast, N. IrelandFebruary 27-March 7, 2026 Few events signpost the time of year quite like a city's flagship contemporary music festival. For one week every March, as winter gradually recedes, Belfast's aptly named Brilliant Corners illuminates jazz--and jazz-adjacent music--in many of its myriad forms. Inevitably, some of the more outré ...

Article: The Big Question

Is There Really Only One Guitar And Drums Duo Album in Jazz History?

by Ian Patterson
January 12, 2024

A veritable mountain of duo albums color jazz history. Vocal and piano duos abound. Think Ella Fitzgerald and Ellis Larkins, Tony Bennet and Bill Evans, or Carmen McRae and George Shearing for starters. Guitar and piano duos? Plenty of those too. Jim Hall and Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass spring to mind. ...

Album

IN2

By David Lyttle

Label: Lyte Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Lullaby For Strange Times; Out Of This World; Camels; Darn That Dream; I Should Care; After The Flood; Astral; Septembertime.

Article: Album Review

David Lyttle & Phil Robson: IN2

by Ian Patterson
March 7, 2023

The title of drummer David Lyttle and guitarist Phil Robson's debut duo album is as direct and uncluttered as the music contained herein. Equally divided between time-honored standards and stylistically sympathetic originals--three by the Lyttle and one by Robson--the duo's straight-ahead, tradition-grounded language is perhaps a departure from their more genre-fluid work, particularly Lyttle's hip-hop filtered, ...