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Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band Live In London

by Chris May
January 18, 2024

Viewed in retrospect, the abiding memory of 2023 is that it produced too many jazz albums prioritizing technical facility over emotional engagement. In London, New York and elsewhere (but not, so it seemed, in Chicago), musicians appeared to focus on virtuosity rather than feeling. Dullsville. For the record, some of those albums that did put soul ...

Open House

By Tom Ollendorff

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2023
Track listing: Three Bridges; Bongo Beep; Passing Ships; Carnival; My Foolish Heart; Istanbul; Istanbul Coda; Airegin; Hollywood.

Dream Band Live In London

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1: Abaqua; Verglas; Oblique; Cakeism (Intro); Cakeism; Cakeism (Alternate Take). Disc 2: Momentum; Grace (Intro); Grace (Part 1); Grace (Part 2); Cat Circles; Red (Intro); Red; North Field. Disc 3: Rio; Brocken (Intro); Brocken; Lift; Sach; Differentials.

Dream Band: Live in London

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Abaqua; Verglas; Oblique; Cakeism (Intro); Cakeism; Cakeism (Bonus); Momentum; Grace (Intro); Grace (Part 1); Grace (Part 2); Cat Circles; Red (Intro); Red; North Field; Rio; Brocken (Intro); Brocken; Lift; Sach; Differentials (Bonus).

Tom Ollendorff: Open House

by Chris May
June 3, 2023

There is technical excellence, there is pretty, there is a well-honed trio, there is an in-sync guest saxophonist, and yet, and yet.... Open House is London-based guitarist Tom Ollendorff's follow-up to A Song For You (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2021), his debut, which also featured bassist Conor Chaplin and drummer Marc Michel. The ...

Em.Perience

By Fabia Mantwill Orchestra

Label: XJAZZ Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Ophelia; Pjujeck; Sasa Ndio Sasa Opening; Sasa Ndio Sasa; Erwachen; Kumbkumbu; Trio.logy; Melodie de la riviere; Festival at High Noon.

Tom Ollendorff: A Song For You

by Chris May
April 24, 2021

They say lightning never strikes in the same place twice. But sometimes it does. When it comes to new jazz guitarists of more than average talent, London has produced two in fairly rapid succession. In spring 2020, Rob Luft released his immaculate and uplifting sophomore album, Life Is The Dancer (Edition). Exactly a year later, Tom ...

Planet B

By Jasper Hoiby

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Story of Self; Reimagine; Consciousness; Interconnectedness; Never Forgotten; The Dinosaur; We Didn’t Earn the Sun; Life Is a Gift; Never Give Up; Reimagine (outro).