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Article: Live Review

Jazzfest Bonn 2018

Read "Jazzfest Bonn 2018" reviewed by Henning Bolte

by Henning Bolte

Jazzfest Bonn Bonn, Germany May 3-5, 2018 The city of Bonn, situated on the banks of the Rhine River south of Cologne in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia, is the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. Bonn formerly functioned as the ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Williams: Lifelike

Read "Lifelike" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

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, ...

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Jeff Williams: Lifelike

Read "Lifelike" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey

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 ...

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Article: Under the Radar

Culture Clubs: Part IV: When Jazz Met Europe

Read "Culture Clubs: Part IV: When Jazz Met Europe" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

The Geography of Jazz--When Jazz Met Europe In 2004 Maureen Anderson, a researcher at Illinois State University contributed a dissertation to the journal, African American Review, titled The White Reception of Jazz in America. Ostensibly, her article deals with stories published in high profile periodicals and journals from 1917 and into the 1930s, written by white ...

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Kit Downes: Obsidian

Read "Obsidian" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

British jazz pianist Kit Downes has been previously heard on ECM on drummer/composer Thomas Stronen's first Time Is A Blind Guide album (2015). But in his early years Downes sang in a cathedral choir and took organ lessons. He recently returned to the pipe organ in a series of experimental projects with saxophonist Tomas Challenger, who ...

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Kit Downes: Obsidian

Read "Obsidian" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

In 2013, pianist/organist Kit Downes, along with saxophonist Tomas Challenger, released Wedding Music (Loop Records) featuring Downes on the B-3 organ at Huddersfield University's St Paul's Church. That recording was moored in an ethereal setting that gave it an ambient, but stately quality and the duo reunited under similar conditions for Vyamanikal (Slip Imprint, 2016). In ...

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Such A Sky

By Kit Downes

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Out Of View; Beyond The Green; Who Will Buy; Do Not Delay; Undo.

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Article: Album Review

Àine O'Dwyer: Gallarais

Read "Gallarais" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Places of worship are hardly new venues for jazz or other forms of non-sectarian music. As far back as 1927, Fats Waller had recorded two pipe organ solos in a church in Camden, New Jersey. Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd recorded Jazz Samba (Barclay-Verve, 1962) at the Washington, D.C. All Souls Church on the corner of ...

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Article: Live Review

Kongsberg Jazz Festival 2017

Read "Kongsberg Jazz Festival 2017" reviewed by Henning Bolte

by Henning Bolte

Kongsberg Jazz Festival/Kongsberg Jazzmeeting Kongsberg, Norway July 6-8, 2017 Kongsberg, a former important silver mining town, is situated in the eastern part of Norway 55 miles west of Oslo. The Kongsberg Jazz Festival, founded in 1964 has a long tradition of offering a specific program for international guests (presenters and media people) ...

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Article: Album Review

Josienne Clarke / Kit Downes: Such A Sky

Read "Such A Sky" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Sometimes life's great pleasures creep up almost unnoticed. One day they're not there, next day it seems like they've been around forever. Such A Sky is one such pleasure. A five-track EP, it's the debut release from BBC Folk Award winning singer Josienne Clarke and Mercury Prize nominated keyboardist Kit Downes. Clarke announced the ...


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