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Dinosaur: Together, As One

Read "Together, As One" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

Benché il nome di Laura Jurd possa suonare ai più sconosciuto, la ventiseienne trombettista, compositrice e band leader è tra le figure di spicco della giovane e vivace scena musicale britannica, lodevolmente supportata dalla BBC Radio 3 sotto l'egida New Generation Artists. Dinosaur è la nuova band allestita da Jurd e Togheter, As One l'album di ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures

Read "Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures" reviewed by Phil Barnes

by Phil Barnes

Creativity is an unpredictable beast, yesterday's inspiration can soon turn stale, evaporating with the morning dew if not carefully cultivated and attended to. That idea that was once so exciting can easily become a well-worn rut, or even a trap, into which the unwary can fall. Bassist Jasper Hoiby, a third of Phronesis, appears to recognise ...

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Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2016

Read "Brilliant Corners 2016" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Brilliant Corners 2016 Various venues Belfast, N. Ireland March 5-12, 2016 Another Brilliant Corners, a few more brilliant corners. Belfast's fledgling international jazz festival may only be in its fourth year but already it feels like an established part of the city's vibrant cultural landscape, a date in the ...

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Article: Live Review

Bray Jazz Festival 2015

Read "Bray Jazz Festival 2015" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Bray Jazz Festival 2015 Various Venues Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2015 Sunshine and squall. The sun and the clouds chased each other's tails throughout the May Bank Holiday weekend of the Bray Jazz Festival. In a way the weather mirrored the music--a pleasingly eclectic, bracing mixture--and the fortunes of the ...

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Article: Live Review

12 Points 2015

Read "12 Points 2015" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

12 Points 2015 Project Arts CentreDublin, IrelandApril 15-18, 2015 In an international calendar absolutely bulging with jazz festivals, 12 Points--conceived in Dublin by Improvised Music Company in 2007--stands out as one of the more original. It's not just the diversity and quality of the music that sets Twelve Points apart, after ...

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News: Festival

Ambrose Akinmusire Headlines Bray Jazz 2015

Ambrose Akinmusire Headlines Bray Jazz 2015

Bray Jazz returns for its 16th edition this coming Bank Holiday weekend from 1-3 May. The highly popular festival, set in the picturesque seaside town of Bray nestled at the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains, has built a reputation over the years for hosting world class international and local acts. Bray Jazz 2015 is no exception. ...

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News: Festival

12 Points Returns With Best Of New European Jazz, Dublin, April 15-18

12 Points Returns With Best Of New European Jazz, Dublin, April 15-18

12 Points returns to his spiritual home of Dublin at the Project Arts Centre from April 15-18 for 4 days of exciting young jazz acts from across Europe, with daytime ‘Jazz Futures’ seminar and after-hours jam sessions. Festival Pass €50 / Daily Tickets €15/12 “The freshest, hottest sounds in jazz and contemporary experimental music” —The Irish ...

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Article: Album Review

Laura Jurd: Human Spirit

Read "Human Spirit" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

With her debut as leader, Landing Ground (Chaos Collective, 2012), Laura Jurd laid down her marker as a precociously talented composer and musician. Folk, classical and jazz threads united the Ligeti String Quartet with improvising musicians to create a powerful octet that was greater than the sum of its parts. On Human Spirit (Chaos Collective, 2015) ...

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Article: Album Review

Engines Orchestra + Phil Meadows Group: Lifecycles

Read "Lifecycles" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Jazz musicians live in straightened financial times, or so they would have us believe. So how does Phil Meadows, a young composer and saxophonist from the UK, manage to pull together the wads of cash required to write and record a set of ambitious compositions for jazz group and orchestra in a project that involves 26 ...

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Article: Album Review

Blue-Eyed Hawk: Under The Moon

Read "Under The Moon" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

London-based quartet Blue-Eyed Hawk's debut recording has benefited from three years of gigging and the slow stewing of ideas. Collectively, singer Lauren Kinsella, trumpeter Laura Jurd, guitarist Alex Roth and drummer Corrie Dick sounds like the finished article, which whets the appetite for future chapters. With writing duties spread evenly, the quartet soars over wide stylistic ...


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