Results for "Mark Wastell"

Mark Wastell

A Supreme Love

by Duncan Heining
July 10, 2023

Alan Skidmore is one of the finest saxophonists to come out of the United Kingdom, Europe or indeed anywhere. In fact, it was hearing Skidmore's tenor solo on “Have You Heard?" from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (Decca, 1966) that encouraged a young Michael Brecker to take up the instrument. Skidmore had also served his ...

2019: Striking A Balance In Review, Part 1

by Henning Bolte
February 8, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 Every year the 'Best-of' game is underway again. But, “best of what?" is the immediate question. It's almost impossible for fishes of prey to hunt in a huge herring swarm, or for birds of prey to hunt in those huge budgerigar swarms. 'The best' is a choice from the ...

Punkt 2019

by Henning Bolte
September 25, 2019

Sørlandet Art Museum, Kick Scene, Domkirken, Kilden Punkt Kristiansand, Norway September 5-7, 2019 Punkt, with its 15th anniversary, is a quite young member among this year's prominent jubilees. It is still in the thrilling and promising future that has taken its course from 2005 on. Punkt then brought studio-technology to the ...

Paul Dunmall's Sunship Quartet: John Coltrane 50th Memorial Concert At Cafe Oto

by John Sharpe
June 12, 2019

If John Coltrane had lived he would have been 90 in July 2019. It's fair to say that there has been no saxophonist anywhere near as influential since his passing in 1967. To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, percussionist Mark Wastell organized a concert headlined by two affirmed devotees of the great reedman, namely ...

David Sylvian: There Is No Love

by Phil Barnes
July 18, 2017

David Sylvian has long divided opinion. For every passionate supporter there are half a dozen who will decry his every move as pretentious. Even among his fanbase there are many who want him to do something more to their taste, along the lines of some past triumphs like Japan's Quiet Life or Tin Drum, or solo ...

Amoungst English Men - For Piano, Tam Tam And Tubular Bell

By Mark Wastell

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 2008

Amoungst English Men

By Mark Wastell

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 2006

Caressed On The Brow By Unseen Hands

By Mark Wastell

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 2006

Vibra #1

By Mark Wastell

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 2005