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Ivo Neame

Matt Anderson: Live at Leeds Jazz Festival

by Neil Duggan
March 18, 2024

To appreciate the synergy and spirit of a band it often pays to hear them play live. The quality of their playing and their abilities to interact are laid bare. Releasing their first live recording, the Matt Anderson Quartet can do so confidently having spent nearly a decade touring and recording together. Live at ...

Duos

By Jim Rattigan

Label: Three Worlds Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dialogues: Reverie; Elegy; Chelsea Bridge; Ishaya; A Hero's Path; Infant Eyes; Passing Point. You Must Believe In Spring: Ligia; Very Early; Parker's Mood; My Funny Valentine; I Could Write A Book; You Must Believe in Spring; How My Heart Sings; Alone Together; Lush Life; Falling Grace; Body and Soul. Theolonius Monk: Ruby, My Dear; Pannonica; 'Round Midnight; Tinkle-Tinkle; Ugly Beauty; Blue Monk; Monk's Mood; Ask Me Now; Epistrophy (Playout).

Geyser

By Marius Neset

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Part 1 Waterfall; Part 2 On Fire; Part 3 Out Of Sight; Part 4 Under The Surface; Part 5 Lava; Part 6 Flow; Part 7 Meeting Magma; Part 8 Outbreak.

Chroma

By Emma Rawicz

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Phlox; Xanadu I; Rangwali; Xanadu II; Middle Ground; Xanadu III; Intro to Viridian; Viridian; Falu.

Benet McLean: Green Park

by Chris May
November 11, 2023

Best known as a pianist, with four critically acclaimed albums behind him, on Green Park Benet McLean returns to his first instrument, the violin. The press release says he began studying the instrument at the age of 3, and Wikipedia tells us he was at some stage mentored by classical maestro Yehudi Menuhin. It stacks up. ...

Marius Neset: Geyser

by Chris May
October 13, 2023

Geyser is Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset's third album with new-music ensemble London Sinfonietta. The piece was commissioned for the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, where this recording was made on September 3, 2022. As on the two previous albums, the Sinfonietta are joined by Neset's high-voltage jazz quintet with pianist Ivo Neame, vibraphonist Jim ...

Jim Rattigan: Duos

by Neil Duggan
October 11, 2023

The name Jim Rattigan may be unfamiliar but probably more familiar are his contributions to the music in Batman, Lord Of The Rings, The Bourne Ultimatum or Moulin Rouge... or maybe his work with Tom Jones, Burt Bacharach, George Michael, Adele or Tony Bennett. Globally, he is certainly one of the foremost exponents of the French ...

Emma Rawicz: Chroma

by Tom Spargo
September 1, 2023

There are only so many times that one can use phrases such as “emerging talent" or “upcoming star" before one must concede that the artist in question has in fact made it into the major league of jazz. With the August 2023 release of her second full-length album Chroma on the label ACT, this is precisely ...

Dave Stapleton: Moving Edition Records With The Horizon

by Ian Patterson
April 24, 2023

The old market town of Newbury lies an hour or so from London, on the edge of the chalky Berkshire Downs. Like any 1,000-year-old English settlement, it has seen its fair share of history, but it is probably best known for its 200-year-old horse-racing course. Or perhaps Greenham Common holds that distinction. The WWII air force ...