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Jazz Day At The New Ross Piano Festival with Kit Downes and Scott Flanigan Set for September 20-24, 2023

Jazz Day At The New Ross Piano Festival with Kit Downes and Scott Flanigan Set for September 20-24, 2023

Five years ago the New Ross Piano Festival introduced jazz piano to what had been a purely classical piano festival. So far it has featured Enrico Pieranunzi, Lars Jansson, Gwilym Simcock, Vadim Neselovskyi, Phil Ware, Jim Doherty and Greg Felton. This year its Kit Downes and Scott Flanigan. About Kit Downes Kit Downes is a BBC ...

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Article: Six Picks

August 2023

Read "August 2023" reviewed by Pat Youngspiel


PJEV-Kit Downes-Hayden Chisholm Medna Roso Red Hook 2023 With the third release on his Red Hook label it is becoming increasingly clear that producer Sun Chung isn't trying to box his label's musical output into any specific jazz styling or avant-garde field of experimentation, but rather that music can and should ...

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Article: Live Review

Enemy At Magy's Farm

Read "Enemy At Magy's Farm" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Enemy Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland May 18, 2023 Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren have played under the unusual moniker of Enemy since 2015, with their eponymous debut released on Dave Stapleton's Edition Records in 2018. The enemy in question may well be cliché and conformity because this ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Julie Campiche, Jim Black, Federico Nuti, Sebastian Rochford & More New Releases

Read "Julie Campiche, Jim Black, Federico Nuti, Sebastian Rochford & More New Releases" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter are back, and they're SuperBoogieng! So are Jim Black and Kit Downes, featured on a couple of new albums each. The playlist also showcases interesting new European projects, and albums that blend jazz with hip-hop and music for the dance floor.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme" ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Reed Rapture With Liebman And More

Read "Reed Rapture With Liebman And More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


On this show we continue our exploration of Ivo Perelman's Reed Rapture In Brooklyn, this time focusing on his partnership with Dave Liebman. As well as further music from Liebman we also have excellent new releases from Blood Quartet, Mette Henriette, Sebastian Rochford & Kit Downes, Stephan Micus, Anders Jormin, and Maximiliano Kirszner.Playlist Show ...

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Article: Album Review

Sebastian Rochford / Kit Downes: A Short Diary

Read "A Short Diary" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


London-based drummer Sebastian Rochford (aka, Seb) and pianist Kit Downes have a long working history but have recorded only once as a duo on the EP Live @ The Vortex (Loop Collective, 2012). They reunite on the poignant and cerebral A Short Diary. Rochford began his relationship with ECM Records as part of the Andy Sheppard-led ...

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Vermillion

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Minus Monks; Sister, Sister; Seceda; Plus Puls; Rolling Thunder; Sandilands; Waders; Class Fails; Bobbl's Song; Math Amager; Castles Made of Sand.

Album

Deadeye

Label: Dox Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Deadeye; Mbira; Stingaloon; Song for the Sea; Hokus; Sonatina; Wild Bill; Dolasilla Returns the Treasure; Familiar; Ninna Nanna per Adulteri; The Wayfaring Stranger.

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

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Article: Interview

Producer Sun Chung: Always Listening for a Story

Read "Producer Sun Chung: Always Listening for a Story" reviewed by Tyran Grillo


On April 28, 2021, a quiet masterpiece marked the end of an era--and the beginning of another. Hanamichi was to be the last studio recording of Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, who died in 2015, two years after its creation. And yet, while its sweeter overtones struck balance in the bitterness of his absence, the album marked ...


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