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Lifesigns: Lifesigns
by Glenn Astarita
UK-based trio Lifesigns combines expressive soloing, stately overtones and heart-pumping opuses via impressive progressive-pop sensibilities and multi-tiered compositions, hardened by classic prog virtuosity. The band acquires compassionate support from icons, guitarist Steve Hackett (Genesis) and flautist Thijs Van Leer (Focus). Guitarists Jakko Jakszyk and Robin Boult (Fish) contribute, yet the listings do not identify the guest ...
Roger Beaujolais Quartet: Mind The Gap
by Dan Bilawsky
The quintet has usually been the format of choice for British vibraphone ace Roger Beaujolais, but he changes it up on Mind The Gap; this is the eighteenth album from the veteran mallet man, but the first to really focus on a foursome. Beaujolais, a self taught vibraphonist who started a bit late--in ...
Graham Bond: Wading in Murky Waters
by Duncan Heining
Organist and saxophonist Graham Bond was the most important and influential musical pioneer to emerge from British jazz in the 1960s. High praise indeed, but in his case it is warranted. His legacy might be defined less by the music he recorded and more by the impact he had on subsequent generations of musicians. However, that ...
WorldService Project: Articulate Arsonists
by John Kelman
It's a very different time to be a musician than it was even 20 years ago, when major record labels still existed, providing tour support and money to make recordings. It's also a very different time because, with the upsurge of DIY recordings, there's more music being released every month than ever before. Add to that ...
WorldService Project: Fire in a Pet Shop
by John Eyles
With its debut album, Relentless (Brooke Records, 2011) WorldService Project announced itself as a band to watch. Since that release, the five-piece--led by keyboardist and principal composer Dave Morecroft--has consolidated its reputation as a cooking live band, in particular in its Match & Fuse live collaborations with like-minded bands from across Europe. Now, ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away
by Nenad Georgievski
Strangely beautiful, lush and stately, the Bad Seeds' Push the Sky Away is an absolute wonder of a record. It is bold, emotionally charged, beautiful, baffling and gorgeously intimate. After the fired-up extravaganza in the form of the Grinderman juggernaut, surprisingly there comes a record that is totally devoid of that volcanic noise and menace that ...
Spokfrevo Orquestra, London, UK, July 2, 2013
by Sammy Stein
Spokfrevo OrquestraRonnie Scott's Jazz ClubLondon, UKJuly 2, 2013Frevo is a hectic mix of Latin jazz with elaborate arrangements and intricacies. It evolved from several historical musical influences including military marching bands and polka. The composers of old are referred to as “maestros," to by the musicians. Refice, capital of the state ...
Man Overboard: All Hands On Deck
by Bruce Lindsay
Swing. But which swing? According to London-based quintet Man Overboard, debut album All Hands On Deck is full of “Hot Vintage Swing." According to Duke Ellington, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Which begs the crucial question, does Man Overboard have that swing?Man Overboard (not to be confused with ...
Ray Russell: Playing with Time
by Ian Patterson
Each time guitarist/composer Ray Russell releases a new album, it feels like a comeback. Now, More than Ever, Russell's debut on the Abstract Logix label, comes seven years after Goodbye Svengali (Cuneiform Records, 2006), his heartfelt tribute to composer Gil Evans. Although Russell may drop off the radar for periods of time, he's never really far ...
Compassionate Dictatorship: Entertaining Tyrants
by Bruce Lindsay
Six years after its debut album, Coup D'Etat (FMR Records, 2007), and three years after its follow-up, Cash Cows (FMR Records, 2010), Compassionate Dictatorship returns with Entertaining Tyrants. Album number three finds the London-based quartet moving away from the influence of progressive rock, which shaped some of Cash Cows, and into a sound that is much ...
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