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Babel Label: New Songs from the Tower of Sound
by Jakob Baekgaard
During the last decade, British jazz has been booming and London has become, once again, one of the jazz capitals of the world. To get a feel of what's happening, the place for live music is no longer Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, but a place called The Vortex, directed by Oliver Weindling. Weindling is also the ...
Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra at the Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2012
by Bruce Lindsay
Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A OrchestraTheatre Royal Norfolk And Norwich FestivalNorwich, UKMay 26, 2012It only took a quick glance at the stage to confirm that this was to be no ordinary jazz gig: Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra doesn't do ordinary. Dammers, leader and keyboard player of '70s ska band The Specials, ...
Empirical: Elements Of Truth
by Chris May
EmpiricalElements Of TruthNaim Jazz2011 Empirical's second album, Out 'n' In (Naim, 2009), is a hard act to follow. The salute to reed player Eric Dolphy deservedly won the band Best Jazz Act in the 2010 MOBO Awards. Elements Of Truth rises confidently, if not wholly successfully, to ...
McCormack & Yarde Duo: Places And Other Spaces
by Chris May
McCormack & Yarde DuoPlaces And Other SpacesEdition2011 This arresting disc, the second from pianist Andrew McCormack and saxophonist Jason Yarde, is just the thing to brighten up a chilly autumn: warm, glowing and packed with great tunes--only one of which, George Gershwin's “Embraceable You," is a standard. ...
The Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz Orchestra becomes The Nu Civilisation Orchestra. New programme Firebird debuts Autumn 2011
The Nu Civilisation Orchestra is the new name of the Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz Orchestra, a fully professional 16-piece orchestra comprising past and present members of the Tomorrow's Warriors artist development programme. Tomorrow's Warriors Artistic Director Gary Crosby OBE said, 'this is our response to feedback from promoters and the public who were not fully aware of ...
Take Five With Tim Richards
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tim Richards: Tim's first encounter with a piano was at the age of eight, in a dentist's waiting room. After classical piano lessons he taught himself jazz and blues from the age of 14, after seeing Thelonious Monk on TV.Since forming the long-lived modern jazz quartet Spirit Level in Bristol in ...
Billy Jenkins: Jazz Gives Me The Blues
by Chris May
Billy JenkinsJazz Gives Me The BluesVOTP Records2011 If the title Jazz Gives Me The Blues suggests that London guitarist/vocalist Billy Jenkins is hacked off with jazz, you would be right. Kind of. What Jenkins objects to is the gentrification and institutionalization of jazz, once--a quantum leap from ...
Louis Moholo-Moholo Quintet: London, UK, March 17, 2011
by John Sharpe
Louis Moholo-Moholo QuintetThe VortexLondon, UKMarch 17, 2011 As George the besuited MC said in his introduction, when you saw the lineup you knew this was not one to miss. And the packed audience at north London's Vortex was testament to the fact that his view was widely shared. Even though South ...
Bra Louis - Bra Tebs
Label: Ogun Recordings
Released: 2006
Track listing: 1. Sonke (Pheto) - 5:41;
2. Lakutshona Ilanga (Davashe) / Ntyilo-Ntyilo (trad. arr. Moholo) - 5:03;
3. Unisone (Yarde) - 2:44;
4. B My Dear (Pukwana. arr. Moholo) - 7:01;
5. Maybe of Cause (Bellatalla) - 4:50;
6. Utshaka (trad. Arr. Moholo) - 6:57;
7. Moegoe (Deppa) - 2:36;
8. Motherless Child (trad. Arr. Moholo) - 7:01;
9. Yes Please (Malfatti) - 3:09;
10. Hayi Umntu Endinguye (trad. arr. Moholo) - 9:19;
11. Yes Baby No Baby (Moholo) - 4:47;
12. Ntyilo-Ntyilo (trad. arr. Moholo) - 4:41
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