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Article: Album Review

Dexter Gordon: Soy Califa: Live From Magleaas Højskole 1967

Read "Soy Califa: Live From Magleaas Højskole 1967" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Tenor saxophone legend Dexter Gordon lived for much of the '60s and '70s in Copenhagen. Popular with the media as well as with the fans, Gordon was a regular on radio and TV. On the afternoon of August 5, 1967, he played a special concert at the Magleaas Højskole, a college for aspiring musicians. Danish TV ...

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Article: Album Review

Darryl Way: Children Of The Cosmos

Read "Children Of The Cosmos" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Curved Air was a pivotal progressive rock band during its launch in the late 60s and is still going strong, featuring the inimitable vocals of original member, Sonja Kristina. While not part of the current lineup of Curved Air, classically trained founding member, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Darryl Way became a guiding light and pacesetter, as Children ...

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News: Festival

Earth Wind & Fire Experience Completes Line-Up For Love Supreme Jazz Festival

Earth Wind & Fire Experience Completes Line-Up For Love Supreme Jazz Festival

Two weeks until the UK’s only major green-field jazz festival returns to Glynde Place The line-up for Jazz FM's Love Supreme Jazz Festival is now complete thanks to the addition of the Earth Wind & Fire Experience featuring five-time Grammy-winning original member Al McKay. McKay will line-up alongside a host of international stars including Jamie Cullum, ...

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Article: Album Review

Dub Colossus: Dub Colossus: Addis To Omega

Read "Dub Colossus: Addis To Omega" reviewed by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton

If you're a sucker for BIG horn sections, or something like the sounds of UB40 and Groove Armada, still have a 'lickle ting' for Bob Marley and Finley Quaye records and your Pops obsession with Two-Tone (as do we all surely), then you're probably going to like Addis to Omega from Dub Colossus produced by Dubulah ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Tim Bowness: Abandoned Dancehall Dreams

Read "Tim Bowness: Abandoned Dancehall Dreams" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

In some ways, Abandoned Dancehall Dreams was inevitable. Just as Steven Wilson, his partner in No-Man, ultimately took what is, at the very least, a hiatus from, in addition to No-Man and other projects, his primary gig with Porcupine Tree--pursuing a solo career that's led to increasing success, most recently with the studio recording The Raven ...

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Article: Interview

Partisans: Never the Same Way Twice

Read "Partisans: Never the Same Way Twice" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

It's been five years since Partisans--the British jazz group (not to be confused with the also-British punk rock band The Partisans) cited as the godfathers of the new wave of British jazz, first emerging in 1997 with the out-of-print self-titled debut on the EFZ label--last released an album, specifically the superlative By Proxy (Babel, 2009), which ...

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Article: Album Review

Robbie Harvey: Blowin' That Old Tin Can

Read "Blowin' That Old Tin Can" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Robbie Harvey is one of the new young breed of straight-ahead, mainstream, jazz players whose emergence over the last decade or so gives lovers of the genre a warm feeling and an optimism for the future. What's more, his instrument of choice is the trombone. Blowin' That Old Tin Can is his debut album as leader--the ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jack Bruce: Silver Rails

Read "Jack Bruce: Silver Rails" reviewed by Phillip Woolever

by Phillip Woolever

Jack Bruce and a sterling cast of supporting players roar down breathtaking tracks on this powerful production, offering what sounds like Bruce's autobiographical retrospective in an artistic, highly personal manifesto. The album seems to progress in stages, starting with British blues and abstract jazz, musical touchstones Bruce has based much of his catalog on. ...

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Article: Book Review

Bathed in Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond by Colin Harper

Read "Bathed in Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond by Colin Harper" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Bathed in Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond Colin Harper 480 Pages ISBN: 978-1908279514 Jawbone 2014 Few guitarists in the history of jazz have leapt onto the scene the way John McLaughlin did when the relatively new British expat made two very different appearances on albums ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Magos Herrera: Rebirth in New York

Read "Magos Herrera: Rebirth in New York" reviewed by Gabriel Medina Arenas

by Gabriel Medina Arenas

New York City became the new jazz mecca during the 1920s, when many top jazz musicians from Chicago and the rest of the U.S. migrated to the Big Apple. Jazz musicians from around the globe moved there every decade, knowing New York has some of the top jazz venues in the world, a dozen jazz festivals, ...


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