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Article: Album Review

Tom Harrison: Unfolding In Tempo

Read "Unfolding In Tempo" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

London-based alto saxophonist Tom Harrison leads a tight and imaginative band on Unfolding In Tempo, a live album of “reflections on the Ellington/Strayhorn Canon." After three years intense study of Ellington and Strayhorn, Harrison has selected a mix of tunes that display the breadth of that canon, from the famous to the lesser-known, recorded at the ...

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Article: Album Review

Andre Canniere: The Darkening Blue

Read "The Darkening Blue" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey

Five of the ten numbers here are songs with lyrics, four of which are translations of poems by Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and one is written by Monique Canniere, whose words were inspired by American author Charles Bukowski's “Bluebird." The pastoral solo piano opening to “Autumn Day" belies the strong entrance by the ...

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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2016

Read "Punkt Festival 2016" reviewed by Henning Bolte

by Henning Bolte

Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Norway September, 3-5, 2016 Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Southern Norway, is a small, informal festival of internationally high artistic reputation and esteem. It takes place during the first week of September. Founded in 2005 its 12th edition as usual presented a wide range of musical performances and ...

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Article: Album Review

Henrik Jensen's Followed By Thirteen: Blackwater

Read "Blackwater" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Blackwater is the second album from London-based Henrik Jensen's Followed By Thirteen. There's one change in personnel from debut album Qualia (Jellymould Jazz, 2013)--Antonio Fusco replacing original drummer Peter Ibbetson--but the instrumentation remains the same. Three years on, the band's increasing experience and maturity as a unit is reflected in the compositions and musicianship displayed here.

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Article: Album Review

Construction: Centreline Theory

Read "Centreline Theory" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Centreline Theory is an impressive debut for British drummer, composer Jim Bashford's Construction with his fellow countrymen, bassist Tim Harries (Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Brian Eno), saxophonist Robin Fincker (Vincent Courtois, Whahay) and Icelandic guitar ace Hilmar Jensson (Tim Berne, Jim Black's AlasNoAxis). Bashford is also an educator and busy session artist who seems equally comfortable engaging ...

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Article: Album Review

Erik Sondhy: Abbey Road Sessions, Vol 1

Read "Abbey Road Sessions, Vol 1" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Joey Alexander, the young piano phenom from Bali, has caused quite a splash in the jazz world, a player who is ridiculously talented for one so young. But there's another masterly young piano guy from the Indonesian island: Erik Sondhy. The sessions resulting in Sondhy's debut, Recorded At Abbey Road, Vol. 1, also known ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Ultimate Collectors' Edition

Read "Ultimate Collectors' Edition" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Well, there's certainly been a wait for this one, but for fans of what may be the last high profile progressive rock group to emerge in the 1970s, U.K.'s Ultimate Collectors' Edition proves well worth it. What began as an already sizeable 16-disc box for a group that, during its relatively brief tenure, released just two ...

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Article: Album Review

David Dower and Matt Fisher: The Frog, The Fish and The Whale

Read "The Frog, The Fish and The Whale" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

The young London-based duo of pianist David Dower and percussionist Matt Fisher makes its debut with The Frog, The Fish & The Whale. It's a striking set of Dower's compositions (with arrangements by him), influenced by the duo's love of jazz, classical and contemporary musics. Additional musicians join the pair on three tracks, with vocalist Lauren ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Paul G. Smyth: Weekertoft downloads

Read "Paul G. Smyth: Weekertoft downloads" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

The Weekertoft label was set up jointly by English improvising guitarist John Russell and pianist Paul G. Smyth of the Irish rock band The Jimmy Cake. Their partnership dates back to September 2001 when they played as a duo at Project Arts Centre in Dublin, followed in December 2001 by a duo at Mopomoso, the London-based ...

Article: Album Review

Andy Sheppard Quartet: Surrounded By Sea

Read "Surrounded By Sea" reviewed by Luigi Sforza

by Luigi Sforza

Si immaginino una pulsazione ritmica regolare, brani chiusi e strutturati in sezioni, armonie tensive e distensive che si alternano in base alle articolazioni delle frasi melodiche, improvvisazioni che seguono patterns e cliché consolidati del linguaggio e si avrebbe un format per certi versi omologante, avulso da ogni tentativo di ricerca creativa di uno stile originale.


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