Results for "Larry Bartley"

Larry Bartley

Live in Leipzig

By Loz Speyer

Label: Spherical Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Changes; Innate Ornette; Chimes for Grimes; I Weep for Your People as for Mine; Rhythm Changes Time.

A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz: Part 1

by Ian Patterson
February 24, 2025

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 The history of jazz in Ukraine can be traced fairly precisely according to academic, literature teacher and jazz journalist Alexander Yudin. Writing in The History Of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians And Audience in Context (Equinox Publishing, 2018), Yudin credits ...

Loz Speyer's Inner Space: Live in Leipzig

by Glenn Astarita
September 8, 2024

Loz Speyer, a British trumpeter and composer known for his inventive blend of jazz traditions and free improvisation, leads the quintet Inner Space through its inaugural release. With a background spanning a wide range of influences within the jazz realm, Speyer channels these into compositions that allow each band member room for dynamic improvisation. ...

Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi: Altera Vita

by Chris May
May 5, 2024

Harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and saxophonist Tony Kofi's musical partnership began in 2015 and two years later made the main stage of the London Jazz Festival, opening the bill of A Concert For Alice And John at the Barbican concert hall. Also appearing, saxophonist Denys Baptiste's quartet and, top of the bill, Pharoah Sanders' quartet. It was ...

Denys Baptiste at the 606 Club

by Neil Duggan
October 3, 2023

Denys Baptiste 606 Club on Oh! JazzLondon August 24, 2023 There is something about jazz and basements, they just seem to work so well together. Maybe it is the intimacy the low lights and low ceilings confer. The 606 Club is a quintessential example of the cellar music venue. It is ...

Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective: Reflections

by Chris May
September 20, 2022

In an inspired piece of programming, London's Barbican Centre presented the then virtually unknown harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and her quartet as one of the support bands on its November 18, 2017 one-nighter A Concert for Alice and John, a show headlined by Pharoah Sanders. It would be an exaggeration to say Bzhezhinska stole the show (see ...

Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz

by Chris May
May 10, 2021

Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz David Burke 240 Pages ISBN: 9781908755483 Desert Hearts 2021 David Burke's survey of British jazz musicians of colour does not begin promisingly. The first sentence of his Foreword reads: “Jazz is, of course, African-American in provenance, just as the greatest ...

Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet At Regional Cultural Centre

by Ian Patterson
February 24, 2020

Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny, Ireland February 15, 2020 History owes Alice Coltrane much more than the moniker of “John Coltrane's wife." Alina Bzhezhinska makes the point early on to the Letterkenny audience, on this, the final night of her quartet's ten-date Irish tour. A fine, pianist, ...

Binker Golding Quartet and Denys Baptiste Quartet at the London Saxophone Festival

by Chris May
May 28, 2019

Binker Golding Quartet / Denys Baptiste Quartet London Saxophone FestivalThe Jazz Cafe London May 23, 2019 The launch event for the 2019 London Saxophone Festival, which runs until June 16, featured two of the most edge-of-your-seat, high impact, kick-out-the-jams tenor saxophone-led bands in the recorded history of British jazz. ...