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Indigo Kid: Indigo Kid
by Chris May
Indigo KidIndigo KidBabel Label2012Indigo Kid is the debut, one heckuva debut, by the British guitarist Dan Messore, fronting one heckuva quartet. Indigo Kid comprises two parts new talent and two parts young veterans. New talent is represented by Messore and drummer Gethlin Jones, experience by tenor saxophonist Iain ...
Michael Gibbs and the NDR Bigband: Back in the Days
by John Kelman
Michael Gibbs and the NDR BigbandBack in the DaysCuneiform Records2012Jazz may be filled with reharmonizations, reinventions and reimaginings of songs from across its entire history; few artists have, however, made their names solely as composers and arrangers. Relative youngsters like Maria Schneider, Vince Mendoza and Darcy James Argue ...
Django Bates: Like Life
by Chris May
Django BatesLike LifeStoryville2011 (1998) If you had to choose one artifact which is emblematic of the work of the British composer, bandleader and keyboards and e-flat horn player Django Bates, then his notorious “derangement" of John Kander and Fred Ebb's “New York, New York" would be a ...
Jazz no Parque: July 15-17, 2011
by John Kelman
Mário Laginha e Convidados Jazz no Parque Fundação Serralves July 16, 2011 An invite to Porto, Portugal in the middle of the summer, to catch a single performance--a world premiere, at that--and spend some time soaking up the landscape and culture? Hard enough to resist under any circumstances, but when the ...
John Taylor: Requiem for a Dreamer
by John Kelman
It's been three years since John Taylor's last trio disc, but this time the British pianist takes a small detour, rather than continue the winning streak of Angel of the Presence (Cam Jazz, 2006) and Whirlpool (Cam Jazz, 2008). Requiem for a Dreamer reunites Taylor with his longstanding trio--Swedish bassist Palle Danielsson and British drummer Martin ...
Take Five With Roy Powell
by AAJ Staff
Meet Roy Powell:Roy Powell studied piano and avant-garde composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester England, before defecting to jazz. He first came to prominence in 1994 with his debut recording, A Big Sky, which was hailed as “a real benchmark in British contemporary electric jazz" by Jazz on CD. He ...
Loose Tubes: Tomorrow Night is Your Last Chance Ever
by Bruce Lindsay
Twenty years after legendary British big band Loose Tubes played its farewell gigs at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, its first live album, Dancing On Frith Street (Lost Marble Records, 2010), became Jazzwise magazine's Archive Album of 2010. In the intervening decades, the band's members had spread across the British and international jazz scenes to become ...
Loose Tubes: Dancing On Frith Street
by Bruce Lindsay
Twenty years after the legendary Loose Tubes played its final gigs, Dancing On Frith Street, a live album taken from those valedictory performances at London's Ronnie Scott's Club in September 1990, offers a chance for jazz fans of a certain age to reminisce, and an opportunity for those who missed the band's performances the first time ...
The Reluctantly Politicised Mr. James
Label:
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. The Reluctantly Politicised Mr. James; 02. Basildon Gangster Ghost; 03. Black Dog Company (dedicated to Hugh Hopper & Ian
Howarth); 04. Reconciled Rotation; 05. Trilling Scars; 06. Two Metalled Tendrils/Ten Stairs Stretching Before; 07. Dust in Eyebeam.
Spin Marvel 2: The Reluctantly Politicised Mr James
Label: Edition Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Reluctantly Politicised Mr James; Basildon Gangster Ghost; Black
Dog Company; Reconciled Rotation; Trilling Scars; Two Metalled
Tendril/Ten Stairs Stretching Before; Dust In Eyebeam.
