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Kit Downes: Old Stars, New Blues
by Bruce Lindsay
Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Saturday 30th April 2011. The young British pianist and composer Kit Downes has travelled to this west of England town to première his latest composition, Animation Migration, at the Playhouse Theatre. It was an unusual event for a jazz festival. Downes' band played music inspired by the story of evolution and DNA alongside ...
Thomas Stronen's Time is a Blind Guide & Elephant9: Oslo, Norway, March 20-21, 2013
by John Kelman
When you've got some time to kill between two festivals--in this case, Burghausen, Germany's B-Jazz Festival and Vossa Jazz in Voss, Norway, the following weekend--there are few better places to do it than Oslo, a city that supports live music better than most cities in the world, with the possible exception of New York. Oslo's residents ...
Meet John Kelman
by AAJ Staff
I currently live in: Ottawa, Canada I joined All About Jazz in: 2004 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? After deciding to start writing about music in about 2001, and starting at smaller websites, I was approached by All About Jazz in late 2003, with the question: “We've ...
Jazz FM Awards 2013 Nominees Announced
And the Nominees are... Jamie Cullum, Sonny Rollins and Roller Trio up for the Inaugural Jazz FM Awards 2013 With three months to go until the first Jazz FM Awards Powered by Klipsch, the nominations have been announced today, revealing that 2013 see’s Jamie Cullum up for UK Jazz Artist of the ...
Diatribe Records: Heart and Soul of the Music
by Ian Patterson
Whilst Ireland has long produced music of world renown, this tiny, most Westerly European nation has never been quite so famous for producing cutting edge jazz. However, as European jazz has gradually let slip the American accent--an evolution that perhaps gathered its greatest momentum with the birth of the ECM label--so, too, in Ireland, a new ...
Skip James
Album: Label Love Vol. 5: The Jazz Edition
By Kit Downes
Label: Basho Records
Released: 0
Duration: 9:56
Hannes Riepler: The Brave
by Bruce Lindsay
The British music scene produces more than its share of homegrown talent these days, young players who for the most part emerge from the country's music colleges into the professional scene and then, not content with waiting for the phone to ring, go out and create many of their own gigging and recording opportunities. It's a ...
Stan Sulzmann: Neon Quartet
by Chris May
Stan Sulzmann is among the most singular saxophonists in the UK, with an instantly recognizable, lush but rough-edged sound, and a distinguished track record as a composer and arranger for large and small bands.Born in London in 1948, Sulzmann is approaching veteran status and is a source of inspiration to many of Britain's emerging ...
Threads Orchestra: Ranch
by Dave Sumner
Threads OrchestraRanchSelf Produced2012 There is a thriving UK jazz scene that is quickly being redefined by a new generation of jazz musicians, versed in traditional jazz forms, but in possession of an approach that's planted with both feet in the modern day.The Threads Orchestra has now ...
Troyka: Moxxy
by Bruce Lindsay
The three young British players who constitute Troyka--guitarist Chris Montague, keyboard player Kit Downes and drummer Joshua Blackmore--keep many things simple on their second album, Moxxy. One-word band name, album title and song titles keep things nice and easy. The album cover--a faux '50s Russian propaganda poster and a departure from Edition Records' usual visual style--maintains ...
