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Lyte Records: Dancing To Different Beats
by Ian Patterson
Since its inception in 2007, Lyte Records has earned a reputation as one of the very best labels in Ireland/Northern Ireland for independent jazz artists and creative musicians of various stripes. What started out as a very small, personal concern for Lyte Records founder David Lyttle has grown into something much bigger; international recognition came Lyte ...
Illusionary Sea
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Released: 2013
Track listing:
01. Illusionary Sea (No. 33); 02. Smiles of Great Men (No. 34); 03. Red Sky Stll Sea (No. 31); 04. Four Pages of Robots (No. 30); 05. Fourth Dimensional Confession (No. 41); 06. Butterfly Orbit (No. 32); 07. Nairam.
Stan Tracey: The Flying Pig
by Duncan Heining
Stan Tracey is one of the most highly regarded British jazz musicians of any era. Doesn't matter who you speak to--fans, critics or fellow musicians such as Guy Barker, John Surman, Evan Parker or Keith Tippett--Tracey's story is, in many ways, the history of post-war British jazz. This new CD, Flying Pig, is more than a ...
Take Five With Steve Myerson
by AAJ Staff
Meet Steve Myerson: Steve Myerson has performed, recorded, and/or toured with The Stylistics, Christian McBride, Frank Lacy of The Jazz Messengers, Gianni Russo, Grover Washington, Jr. Sony Grosso, and worked as a Program Manager for Jazz House Kids. Myerson's film credits including arranging music and performing for the film Brooklyn Lobster, which stars Danny Aiello ...
Mary Halvorson Septet: Illusionary Sea
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'attuale settetto di Mary Halvorson inserisce un trombone e un sax tenore sul nucleo a cinque voci ascoltato, fra l'altro, all'ultimo Bergamo Jazz. I due strumenti aggiunti non fanno ovviamente che allargare quello spettro timbrico e dinamico che in una musica come questa, in cui l'elemento compositivo è assolutamente centrale, assume un'importanza-chiave. La cosa che può ...
The Not So Strange and Bizarre Life of Mike Taylor
by Duncan Heining
Composer-pianist, Mike Taylor, lies buried in a touchingly simple grave in a cemetery in Southend. His body was found on the beach at Leigh-on-Sea in Essex in January 1969. It was assumed that he had committed suicide. He was 30 years old and didn't leave much of a legacy--a couple of albums now highly prized, a ...
The Beginners: Two Years Later
by Chris Mosey
The band's name is a typical piece of shy Swedish understatement. Its two leaders, guitarist Erik Söderlind and saxophonist Andreas Gidlund, are anything but beginners; they have a great deal of experience on the local jazz scene. Söderlind has attracted attention for his collaborations with veteran keyboards player Kjell Öhman and his studio ...
Randy Simon Jazz Project: Nyhavn Live
by Nicholas F. Mondello
As instrumentalists and established groups explore new musical vistas, there's somewhat of a “safe harbor" in the richness of classic hard bop. Perhaps that's because the repertoire and stylistic formats of drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, pianist Horace Silver and the like offer performers significant latitude in terms of groove, melodic and harmonic diversity, ...
Apparent Distance
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Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. Part I: Shift; 02. Part II: Strike; 03. Part III: Source; 04. Part IV: Layer.
Bending Bridges
By Jon Irabagon
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Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. Sinks When She Rounds the Bend (No.22); 02. Hemorrhaging Smiles
(No.25); 03. Forgotten Men in Silver (No.24); 04. Love in Eight Colors
(No.21); 05. The Periphery of Scandal(No.23); 06. That Old Sound
(No.27); 07. Sea Cut Like Snow (No.26); 08. Deformed Weight of Hands
(No.28); 09. All the Clocks (No.29).
Tutte le composizioni sono di Mary Halvorson.
