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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mick Rossi, Le Rex, & Emile Parisien

by Maurice Hogue
May 9, 2019

Creativity must be recognized, particularly the kind endures. The AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) continues this day, just as it did over 50 years ago, inspiring, pushing forward, and setting the standard for creative music. Only the players change. The premier performing group of the AACM today is the AACM Great Black Music ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Williams: Bloom

by Roger Farbey
May 2, 2019

In a new departure, Jeff Williams has forsaken the quartet, quintet or sextet configurations of his previous four albums for Whirlwind in favour of this very convincing trio format. In tandem with this slimmed-down enterprise, he's employed a pianist and composer who is undoubtedly a rising star of jazz. Carmen Staaf graduated with a joint degree ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Brad Mehldau, Sarah Tandy, Billy Mohler & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 12, 2019

A catching-up session with gorgeous new and upcoming releases, featuring tons of fascinating debut albums that reassure us about the future of jazz (special mention for Billy Mohler's Focus, Sarah Tandy's Infection in the Sentence, Terraza Big Band's One Day Wonder and the Heartland Trio's eponymous album) hand in hand with new works by established masters ...

Album

Lifelike

By Jeff Williams

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Under The Radar: The Interloper: Dream Visitor; Lament; Borderline; Canaco do Amolador; Double Life.

Article: Album Review

Lorraine Baker: Eden

by Roger Farbey
October 10, 2018

Lorraine Baker graduated with First Class Honours from South East London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2009. Since then, she's worked with many of the UK's leading jazz musicians and in addition to such sessions she's also freelance drum tutor. Fellow drummer Jeff Williams is quoted describing Baker as having a “unique style" ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Williams: Lifelike

Read "Lifelike" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 22, 2018

Sounding as real as real gets, Lifelike's forward thinking drummer/composer Jeff Williams' heady sextet sure sound like they're all sitting in on a late night, cramped back room cutting session, with each player challenging, coaxing the other to new heights and horizons. Williams, an alumni of such name drops as Stan Getz, Dave Liebman, ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Williams: Lifelike

Read "Lifelike" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
March 31, 2018

Based in London and Brooklyn, drummer Jeff Williams is a busy man. In addition to gigging and recording with his own group he currently teaches at the Royal Academy Of Music and at the Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK. This is Williams's fourth album for Whirlwind since his debut on the label with 2011's Another Time ...

Album

Outlier

By Jeff Williams

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Outlier; The Interloper; Dream Visitor; Meeting a Stranger; New and Old; Hermeto; Oddity.

Article: Album Review

Olie Brice Quintet: Day After Day

Read "Day After Day" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
July 21, 2017

Three years on from the debut album by the Olie Brice Quintet, Immune to Clockwork (Multikulti Project, 2014), comes the follow-up, Day after Day. Despite the unchanged band name, the intervening years have brought changes; not only has the band switched record labels from Multikulti to Babel, tenor saxophonist Mark Hanslip has been replaced by George ...

Article: Profile

Martin Speake: The Thinking Fan's Saxophonist

by Duncan Heining
April 28, 2017

British alto saxophonist, Martin Speake, is one of the most adventurous and articulate musicians in a music peppered with creative artists. That he is not a household name--even within the proscribed and marginalised world of jazz--says more about the times than it does about Speake or his single-minded approach to his art. Speake combines ...