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Bruce Lindsay's Best Releases of 2012
by Bruce Lindsay
The year of 2012 proved once again that jazz remains a wonderfully diverse and diverting art form. Here are ten of my favorite albums, in no particular order.Christine TobinSailing To Byzantium(Trail Belle)A joy from first note to last, this is a majestic and beautiful work. Ian ...
Lo Castro, Defade, Depaolis Release New Album - While We Hope And Dream
While We Hope and Dream is the stunning new release from Francesco Lo Castro , Tony Depaolis and Eric DeFade. This inviting collection of lyrically thoughtful compositions offers a crystalline acoustic quality that transports the listener. From romantic and reflective to spirited and inventive, 'While We Hope and Dream' is an emotional and provocative musical escape. ...
Dice Factory: Dice Factory
by Bruce Lindsay
London-based quartet Dice Factory gets its name at least in part from Luke Rhinehart's 1971 novel The Dice Man, a work which seems to have found new fans among the current generation of emerging musicians, writers and artists. Dice Factory contains four such emerging players, each a member of at least one other major UK group--saxophonist ...
Davey Payne: Ready To Play
by Sammy Stein
Davey Payne is known best for the time when he was saxophonist with British group, The Blockheads. His solo on the 1978 number 1 hit, “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" was the first time a double sax solo had appeared on a hit record. Before he joined forces with Dury, who fronted The ...
London Jazz Festival: November 9-18, 2012
by Duncan Heining
London Jazz FestivalLondon, England November, 9-18, 2012Now in its 20th year, the London Jazz Festival is a vast, all-encompassing affair. One of the great cities of the world, London's history saw it swallow village upon village and hamlet after hamlet and this can make it all seem dispersed and disconnected. It's an ...
Jazz in a Changing World
by Sammy Stein
Jazz has influenced many other genres of music and, likewise, many other genres have influenced jazz from its very beginning. What is really exciting about the scene at the moment is just how much enrichment it is getting from the rest of the world. It works both ways, of course; jazz musicians from countries which have, ...
Tom Hewson: Slightly Peculiar
by Bruce Lindsay
Pianist Tom Hewson didn't set out to make a solo piano album; it's just the way the nine original compositions which grace Slightly Peculiar turned out. At least that's the way he tells it. The story suggests that Hewson is a rather self-effacing chap--he could just as readily have spun a tale of grand schemes and ...
Porcupine Tree: Octane Twisted
by John Kelman
Like it or not, the near-term future of British progressive/psychedelic rock Porcupine Tree is in a place of relative uncertainty. When group founder/singer/primary writer Steven Wilson was interviewed for All About Jazz in support of his the live solo set Get All You Deserve (Kscope, 2012), he revealed that 2013 will be focused largely on The ...
Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day
by Nenad Georgievski
Led Zeppelin Celebration Day Three P Films Limited 2012 Many biographies and history books reveal that in the early autumn of 1968, in a stuffy London rehearsal room, guitarist Jimmy Page gathered together a group of newly found musical colleagues--singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, ...
Metallic Taste of Blood: Metallic Taste of Blood
by Glenn Astarita
The album title could automatically allude to an outing by a hardcore death-metal band, yet Metallic Taste of Blood's diverse lineup touches on this quotient of loudly intense fare to coincide with other voluminous, enterprising factors. Here, guitarist/producer Eraldo Bernocchi teams with Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin, keyboardist Jamie Saft (John Zorn, Bad Brains, Black Shabbis) ...
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