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Article: Album Review

Kenny Wheeler: Songs for Quintet

Read "Songs for Quintet" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 3, 2015

A pochi mesi dalla sua morte (18 settembre 2014), ecco l'ultima fatica discografica di Kenny Wheeler per l'etichetta di Manfred Eicher (il quale produce il CD, inciso agli Abbey Road Studios nel dicembre 2013, in coppia con Steve Lake) che ne ha accompagnato molte delle tappe discografiche più salienti. I brani recano tutti ...

Article: Book Review

Hipgnosis Portraits

by Nenad Georgievski
February 28, 2015

Hipgnosis Portraits Aubrey Powell 288 pages ISBN: 0500517630 Thames & Hudson 2014 When I was a kid I used to regularly search through my uncle's vinyl collection and there was one particular photograph that continuously arrested my attention and imagination -the inner sleeves of Pink Floyd's Wish You ...

Article: Interview

Steven Wilson: Intuitive Indulgences and Pop Proclivities

by John Kelman
February 27, 2015

The trajectory of Steven Wilson's career, since stepping away from his longtime band Porcupine Tree to go solo, has been nothing short of remarkable. Since interviewing him in 2012 for the release of Get All You Deserve (Kscope, 2012)--an audio and video document of his world tour in support of Grace for Drowning (Kscope, 2011), his ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Steven Wilson: Hand. Cannot. Erase.

by John Kelman
February 27, 2015

Sometimes you never can tell. When British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson released the old school progressive rock record The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (Kscope, 2013), who knew that it would not only turn out to be his best-selling album since walking away from Porcupine Tree to begin an increasingly successful ...

News: Recording

Alan Hampton Releases Sophomore Album "Origami for the Fire"

February 26, 2015

Alan Hampton is a busy man. When he's not on the road, playing bass and singing with Andrew Bird, Gretchen Parlato Meshell N'Degeocello, and Robert Glasper, he might be in the studio laying down tracks for Sufjan Stevens, Luke Temple, Derrick Hodge, Kendrick Scott, Esperanza Spalding, or The New Pornographers. But somehow, in between tours and ...

News: Event

The World’s Greatest Drummer Concert 2015 Featuring Steve Gadd

February 25, 2015

The World's Greatest Drummer Concert returns on Tuesday 26th May 2015 at the Derngate Theatre, Northampton. Since the very first World’s Greatest Drummer Concert in 2007, the event has featured some of the finest drummers alive today. However it has always been organisers Ian Palmer's ambition to showcase the drumming of the legendary Eric Clapton's longtime ...

Article: Live Review

Take Five UK 2015

by Ian Patterson
February 24, 2015

Take Five UK Edition X Bore Place Kent, England February 9 -14, 2015 Nestled in the heart of the Kent countryside is Bore Place, an organic farm that dates to the seventeenth century. Here, the mobile phone signal is unreliable and internet connection is dickey at best. The only sound ...

Article: Album Review

Laura Jurd: Human Spirit

Read "Human Spirit" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
February 22, 2015

With her debut as leader, Landing Ground (Chaos Collective, 2012), Laura Jurd laid down her marker as a precociously talented composer and musician. Folk, classical and jazz threads united the Ligeti String Quartet with improvising musicians to create a powerful octet that was greater than the sum of its parts. On Human Spirit (Chaos Collective, 2015) ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Switzerland 1974

by John Kelman
February 21, 2015

Thank goodness for Cuneiform Records. Beyond releasing cutting edge new music from now-longstanding groups like The Claudia Quintet and relative newcomers like Norway's Pixel, the intrepid American label continues to unearth, restore and release wonderful archival finds like S.O.S.' Looking for the Next One (2013), and the equally impressive Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop-April '69 (2011), from ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Sanguine Hum: Now We Have Light

by John Kelman
February 20, 2015

Sometimes things take a long time to gestate in the minds of musicians, but Sanguine Hum may well be eligible for entry in the Guinness Book of World Records-- if there was such a category (and if there isn't, perhaps now there should be)--for Longest Time to Bring a Musical Concept to Fruition. OK, it's a ...