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Article: Album Review

Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Oliv & Familie

Read "Oliv & Familie" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
December 31, 2014

Issued twenty years after his death, aged just fifty-four, Oliv & Familie serves as a fitting reminder of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble's charismatic and controversial drummer and leader, John Stevens. Not only does this release return to circulation the two “Oliv" tracks that constituted the SME's eponymous third album, originally issued on vinyl by Giorgio Gomelsky's ...

Article: One LP

Jack Bruce: L'ascension, Olivier Messiaen

by William Ellis
November 5, 2014

"It's called L'ascension by Olivier Messiaen who was a French composer I have loved for most of my life. Why I love his compositions is he shows that music has always existed. Humans only stole it. We borrowed it -but it's in nature. It holds the universe together, ask any skylark or ...

Article: Album Review

Mammal Hands: Animalia

Read "Animalia" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 30, 2014

When is a trio with a piano not a piano trio? British outfit Mammal Hands offers one answer to that conundrum with debut album Animalia, released on Gondwana Records, the label run by discerning trumpeter and producer Matthew Halsall. Actually, given the varied nature of the tunes on display--co-written by the band members--it offers eight answers. ...

Article: Album Review

Nat Birchall Quintet: Live In Larissa

Read "Live In Larissa" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 12, 2014

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Let Spin: Let Spin

Read "Let Spin" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
March 13, 2014

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 ...

Article: Book Review

Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disbaility

by Ian Patterson
January 19, 2014

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 ...

Article: Rethinking Jazz Cultures

Tony Whyton: What Does Jazz Do For You?

by Ian Patterson
October 21, 2013

[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 ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Launches Rethinking Jazz Cultures - A Series Of Interviews With Jazz's Leading Thinkers

October 20, 2013

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 ...

News: Recording

"Brand New" Single By Midlands Singer Juliette Farrell Picked Up By National BBC Introducing

August 23, 2013

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 ...

Article: Live Review

Bourne / Kane / Davis: Manchester, UK, April 12, 2013

by Ian Patterson
May 1, 2013

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 ...