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Live Harps From Birmingham: FitkinWall, Robin Williamson & Alina Bzhezhinska
by Martin Longley
FitkinWall Royal Birmingham Conservatoire June 25, 2018 In an uncanny bending of happenstance tendencies, we found ourselves with three harp gigs in less than one week, even though manifested as moderne classical, folk troubadour and spiritual jazz styles. Harpist Ruth Wall and keyboardist Graham Fitkin regularly work together ...
Alina Bzhezhinska: Inspiration
by Chris May
Among the highpoints of London's 2017 jazz diary was the Barbican Centre's A Concert for Alice and John. The event commemorated the 50th and 10th anniversaries of the passing of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. It was headlined by Pharoah Sanders, the most distinguished surviving member of bands led by the Coltranes, who turned in an ...
Live From Birmingham: Tom Harrison, Tad Newton, Wynton Marsalis & Monocled Man
by Martin Longley
Tom Harrison The Bartons Arms June 6, 2014 Some of Tom Harrison's band sidemen are more familiar to seasoned UK jazz fans than the leader himself, but the London saxophonist's film music project will doubtless contribute to improving his own profile. It's the kind of conceptual set-up that is ...
Jean Toussaint: Tate Song
by Ian Patterson
Ten albums in twenty five years isn't prolific but in a world awash with inferior music saxophonist Jean Toussaint's unhurried approach has consistently produced high-quality recordings that stand the test of time. What's more, the lapses between releases make each production a bona fide event. Certainly, the four years since his live album and the nine ...
Presence in Mind
Label: 144Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. Splendid Blues, 2. Bach East, 3. My Love for You, 4. Concerto D'Afro, 5. Presence, 6. Serendipity, 7.
Empathy, 8. Fondness, 9. Saved, 10. Lullaby of Love, 11. Brother's Bounce.
Chris Biscoe Profiles Quartet: Live At Campus West
by Bruce Lindsay
British multi-instrumentalist Chris Biscoe began playing the alto saxophone in 1963, just one year before the death of Eric Dolphy. On Live At Campus West Biscoe and his Profiles Quartet pay tribute to Dolphy's legacy with new arrangements of tunes associated with Dolphy as a composer and player, drawing on music from the American's brief but ...
The Art Of The Song
by Bruce Lindsay
Singing is possibly the most universal of the arts, certainly of the musical arts. The human voice is the most portable of instruments, always there, always available. It's also the most expressive of instruments: almost every instrument invented in history has at some time or other been used to mimic the voice; none have truly succeeded.
Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra at the Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2012
by Bruce Lindsay
Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A OrchestraTheatre Royal Norfolk And Norwich FestivalNorwich, UKMay 26, 2012It only took a quick glance at the stage to confirm that this was to be no ordinary jazz gig: Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra doesn't do ordinary. Dammers, leader and keyboard player of '70s ska band The Specials, ...
Melissa James: Day Dawns
by Bruce Lindsay
It's obvious to even a casual observer of Britain's jazz scene that there is a resurgence in the art of the song and the craft of the vocalist. Singer/songwriter Melissa James is set to be one of the finest of this new breed: her unique approach to her craft is immediately apparent on Day Dawns, a ...
Meeting Ground
By Byron Wallen
Label: Twilight Jaguar
Released: 2007
Track listing: Spirit of Bilal; Captive Caravan; Sailor of the Sands; Initiation; Freedom Struggle; Resignation; Zawiya; M'allem;
Exaltation; Meeting Ground.
