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Article: Album Review

Kai Hoffman: Do It While You Can

Read "Do It While You Can" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 15, 2013

The visual image, the cover design and the positivity of the album title--Do It While You Can--all point in the general direction of a Good Time about to be had. Singer (and French horn player) Kai Hoffman ensures that a good time is exactly what's on offer, crafting a set of songs that makes the most ...

Article: Live Review

Bobby McFerrin: London, UK, March 3, 2013

by John Eyles
March 12, 2013

Bobby McFerrinBarbicanLondon, UKMarch 3, 2013 One of the pleasures of going to a Bobby McFerrin concert is that you never quite know what you are going to get on any particular day. “Spontaneous Inventions" was not just an album title for McFerrin, it became a description of his performance philosophy--one that ...

Article: Interview

Kenny Wheeler: The Making of "Mirrors"

by Ian Patterson
March 11, 2013

It often comes as a surprise to people when they discover that trumpeter/flugelhornist/composer Kenny Wheeler is not British. Well, not British born, for although born in Toronto, Canada, in 1930, Wheeler has spent the last 60 years living in England, which surely makes him as English as Ploughman's Lunch or a pint of bitter. The recording ...

Article: Album Review

Nicolas Meier: From Istanbul To Ceuta With A Smile

Read "From Istanbul To Ceuta With A Smile" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 11, 2013

Long ago, when the world was younger and far more innocent, a British TV commercial challenged its viewers. Take a particular brand of fruit pastille (Rowntree's, to be specific), place it in the mouth, resist the temptation to chew. So deliciously fruity was the pastille that such resistance would be futile. A similar challenge might be ...

Article: Scumbles

Street Music UK

by Sammy Stein
March 10, 2013

Late at night while walking recently through Covent Garden, London, I was stopped in my tracks by the sweetest voice I had heard in a long while. Signaling my friend, we set off to find the source.All we could see was a crowd of dancing people but we managed to squeeze in and found ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Chris May

by AAJ Staff
March 9, 2013

I currently live in: LondonI joined All About Jazz in: 2004What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? Enthusiasm for the the music.How do you contribute to All About Jazz? As a Senior Editor, I edit. I also write for the site.What is your musical background? ...

Article: Album Review

Pat Thomas: Al-Khwarizmi Variations

Read "Al-Khwarizmi Variations" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
March 9, 2013

Al-Khwarizmi Variations is the most recent addition to a select group of albums--the solo recordings of pianist Pat Thomas. It is Thomas's fourth solo outing in twenty years, and follows Nur (Emanem, 2001) and Plays the Music of Derek Bailey & Thelonious Monk (FMR, 2008). Both of those are hard to follow, but Al-Khwarizmi Variations is ...

Article: Album Review

Aquarium: Places

by Bruce Lindsay
March 6, 2013

Aquarium is a young British quartet with a melodic and accessible approach to jazz. Places follows the band's acclaimed self-titled debut (Babel Label, 2011) and features the same lineup of exciting new generation musicians. It finds the band exploring in more depth the melodic and at times very spiritual music which characterised its debut and enhances ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) [Deluxe Edition]

by John Kelman
March 1, 2013

Even though Porcupine Tree began as a solo project for a young Steven Wilson in the late 1980s--and despite the British singer/guitarist/keyboardist remaining its primary composer through to The Incident (Kscope, 2009) and the recent live record from that tour, Octane Twisted (Kscope, 2012)--it's been some time since the group was truly representative of his aspirations, ...

Article: Album Review

Callum Au Big Band: Something's Coming

Read "Something's Coming" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
February 26, 2013

Trombonist and arranger Callum Au has amassed a remarkable wealth of experience, playing or arranging for, among others, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, the Oxford University Big Band (he graduated from the university in 2011), Seth MacFarlane and Buddy Greco. He's a busy man--a list of his projects suggests that he's discovered the secret of the ...