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Nat Birchall Quintet: Live In Larissa
by Bruce Lindsay
Two shows on the tiny stage of the Duende Jazz Bar in Larissa, Greece, in May 2013, form the basis for the Nat Birchall Quintet's Live In Larissa: a live album that provides a welcome and impressive addition to Birchall's discography.Birchall, a master of soprano and tenor saxophones who's based in the north west ...
Let Spin: Let Spin
by Roger Farbey
This eponymously titled album emanates from a new and exciting British band, which although the brainchild of its guitarist Moss Freed, is not actually his band as such, in that there is no formal leader and each of the quartet share equal composing duties. Freed has already made two fine albums under his own name (under ...
Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disbaility
by Ian Patterson
Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability George McKay 230 pages ISBN: #978-0-472-05209-7 University of Michigan Press 2013 Given the vast quantities written about popular music culture it is perhaps surprising that so little critical space has been given to disability and popular music. Despite this anomaly, author George ...
Tony Whyton: What Does Jazz Do For You?
by Ian Patterson
[The first installment of interviews with leading jazz academics as part of All About Jazz's new Rethinking Jazz Cultures series begins with Professor Tony Whyton, Director of the Salford Music Research Centre at the University of Salford.] Wherever you stand on what constitutes jazz music, jazz history and its great historical figures/landmark recordings, Tony ...
All About Jazz Launches Rethinking Jazz Cultures - A Series Of Interviews With Jazz's Leading Thinkers
All About Jazz presents a new column under the banner Rethinking Jazz Cultures—a monthly series of interviews by Ian Patterson with some of the leading thinkers in jazz today. Though New Jazz Studies is in fact 25-years old, there is a burgeoning growth in academic jazz research on a global level. The Rethinking Jazz Cultures monthly ...
"Brand New" Single By Midlands Singer Juliette Farrell Picked Up By National BBC Introducing
BBC Introducing supports unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar musicians across the BBC with big broadcast and live opportunities. At the beginning of 2011 BBC Introducing secured a weekly slot on the Radio 1Xtra playlist and Juliette's freshly released track 'Brand New' made selection for a week of National radio support . The single which was ...
Bourne / Kane / Davis: Manchester, UK, April 12, 2013
by Ian Patterson
Matthew Bourne, Dave Kane and Steve DavisRhythm Changes: Rethinking Jazz Cultures ConferenceMedia City UKSalford Quays, Manchester, EnglandApril 12, 2013Watching three improvising musicians perform in front of a hundred or so jazz academics felt a little akin to watching a gallery of chief surgeons observing an unusual operation, although the ...
Peter Hook: Tragic Joy, Electrified Order
by Nenad Georgievski
Joy Division existed for three and a half years before it reached its tragic end in 1980, but its musical legacy still resonates strongly today. Within that limited period, four young lads from Manchester changed the direction of music--first, by pioneering what is now called post-punk, and inspiring countless other artists along the way, most notably ...
Rhythm Changes: Rethinking Jazz Cultures
by Ian Patterson
Rhythm Changes Media City UK, Salford Rethinking Jazz Cultures Conference Manchester, UK April 11-14, 2013 The study of jazz in academic institutions may be a relatively modern trend, but the presence of over a hundred academics from South Africa to Russia and from America to Portugal at the Rhythm Changes: ...
Corey Mwamba / Dave Kane / Joshua Blackmore: Don't Overthink It
by Bruce Lindsay
There's a simple message on the inner sleeve of Don't Overthink It, the first full-length studio recording from vibraphonist Corey Mwamba . bassist Dave Kane and drummer Joshua Blackmore. There's a simple manifesto in its title and some complex improvised music on the album, but enjoying it is a simple matter. The three UK-based musicians are ...
