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Musician

Julian learned clarinet with Nicholas Bucknall at John Roan School, Greenwich from 1976 to 1983, when he went to York University and continued with Alan Hacker. He studied saxophone with Tony Coe, Don Rendell, Bobby Wellins. Julian didn't fit into the critics and promoters templates, necessarily, stylistically gravitating towards African rhythms with Western harmonies in his compositions, as well as the influence of folk music through artists such as John Surman, but he managed to pop up as a mainstream-to-modern freelancer with some of the legendary names of jazz from a very young age, as well as with reggae bands and on garage recordings

Album

Imogen Ryall Sings the Charles Mingus / Joni Mitchell Songbook

By Imogen Ryall

Label: Rubicon
Released: 2023
Track listing: Boogie Stop Shuffle (interlude); God Must Be a Boogie Man; A Chair in the Sky; Duke's Choice (interlude); The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey; Sweet Sucker Dance; I'se a Muggin' (interlude); Self-Portrait in Three Colors; The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines; Better Git it in Your Soul (interlude); Good-Bye Pork Pie Hat.

Article: Album Review

Imogen Ryall: Imogen Ryall Sings the Charles Mingus / Joni Mitchell Songbook

Read "Imogen Ryall Sings the Charles Mingus / Joni Mitchell Songbook" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
December 8, 2023

In 1976, bassist Charles Mingus was suffering from a degenerative condition which had left him part-paralysed and unable to play or compose in a conventional manner. He still had a mind full of musical ideas so needed a collaborator. He had become aware of Joni Mitchell and thought she might be the right choice. For her ...