Results for "Lewis Wright"

Lewis Wright

Wonder Is The Beginning

By Nathaniel Facey

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Naitoku; She Moves; True Cost; Ursa The Minor Major Bear; Saha World; As The Eagle; Wonder is The Feeling.

Empirical: Wonder Is The Beginning

by Chris May
April 28, 2024

London's Empirical quartet, which first recorded in 2007 as a quintet, has had a steady lineup since 2009's sophomore album, Out 'n' In (Naim): Nathaniel Facey on alto saxophone, Lewis Wright on vibraphone, Tom Farmer on double bass and Shaney Forbes on drums. A stable lineup has given the group a certain consistency of sound, though ...

Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band Live In London

by Chris May
January 18, 2024

Viewed in retrospect, the abiding memory of 2023 is that it produced too many jazz albums prioritizing technical facility over emotional engagement. In London, New York and elsewhere (but not, so it seemed, in Chicago), musicians appeared to focus on virtuosity rather than feeling. Dullsville. For the record, some of those albums that did put soul ...

Dream Band: Live in London

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Abaqua; Verglas; Oblique; Cakeism (Intro); Cakeism; Cakeism (Bonus); Momentum; Grace (Intro); Grace (Part 1); Grace (Part 2); Cat Circles; Red (Intro); Red; North Field; Rio; Brocken (Intro); Brocken; Lift; Sach; Differentials (Bonus).

Dream Band Live In London

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1: Abaqua; Verglas; Oblique; Cakeism (Intro); Cakeism; Cakeism (Alternate Take). Disc 2: Momentum; Grace (Intro); Grace (Part 1); Grace (Part 2); Cat Circles; Red (Intro); Red; North Field. Disc 3: Rio; Brocken (Intro); Brocken; Lift; Sach; Differentials.

Like Lambs

By Empirical

Label: Empirical Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Giants Like Lambs Pt 1 Like Lambs Pt 2 The Garden of Beginnings

Dial H for Hitchcock

by Peter Jones
November 5, 2022

When we meet in a South London pub, tenor saxophonist Alex Hitchcock mentions that he has a rehearsal the next day with the bassist Jasper Høiby for which he needs to learn about an hour of new music. It's for one gig, which is at the weekend. “So it's in at the deep end—quite exciting." If ...

Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela: Rejoice

by Chris May
June 12, 2020

"Unfinished" is the kindest word to describe this album, recorded in 2010 and left on the shelf until its release was prompted after Hugh Masekela passed in 2018. It should have stayed on the shelf. The album consists of eight tracks of noodling by Masekela, accompanied by autopilot timekeeping from Tony Allen, who ...

Indifference Culture

By Empirical

Label: Empirical Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1 – Non-verbal Language (Tom Farmer) 2 – Persephone (Lewis Wright) 3 – Jebel Barkal (Shaney Forbes) 4 – The Master (Lewis Wright) 5 – Indifference Culture (Tom Farmer) 6 – Celestial Being (Shaney Forbes)