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Spin Marvel 2: The Reluctantly Politicised Mr. James
by AAJ Italy Staff
Spin Marvel è una formazione nata nel 2005 da un gruppo di musicisti europei dalle ampie vedute e senza preconcetti stilistici. Guidato dal batterista inglese Martin France (già membro di quell'incredibile fucina di talenti che è stata la big band Loose Tubes) Spin Marvel 2 vede, rispetto al celebrato album d'esordio, l'apporto decisivo del trombettista Nils ...
Norwegian Road Trip, Part 3: Oslo, July 12-14, 2010
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 [Editors Note: From July 6 to July 26, 2010, All About Jazz Managing Editor John Kelman will travel throughout Norway to cover both the Kongsberg Jazz Festival (also participating in Silver City Sounds) and Molde ...
Spin Marvel: Spin Marvel 2: The Reluctantly Politicised Mr James
by Chris May
It's elephant in the room time. Though no-one likes to mention it, experience shows that it's wise to approach any band led by a drummer with a degree of caution. Drummers are primarily involved with rhythm--a crucial component in music, but only one of several. Unless, like Art Blakey or Chico Hamilton, a drummer/bandleader has an ...
Yuri Goloubev: Of Chocolate Cake & Other Simple Metaphors
by Ian Patterson
After a highly successful career in one of the world's greatest classical ensembles, the Moscow Soloists, Russian double-bassist Yuri Goloubev decided to turn his back entirely on this world to heed another calling: jazz.Responding to his lifelong passion, Goloubev established himself in Milan, Italy, where in the past five years he has ...
Huw Warren: Hermeto +
by Bruce Lindsay
Pianist Huw Warren has been inspired by the music of Hermeto Pascoal for over 25 years, and Hermeto + is a fitting tribute to the idiosyncratic Brazilian composer. The tunes--half of them written by Pascoal, half written by Warren--move from lyrical ballads to up-tempo dance tunes via occasional experimental pieces, demonstrating the range of both composers' ...
Spin Marvel
Label: Babel Label
Released: 2007
Track listing: Nepenthe; Black Wing; Tenebrous; Mono Mouth; Totem; Copper Field; Maki; Gwig9; Dopla.
Martin France / Spin Marvel: Spin Marvel
by John Kelman
Appearances can be deceptive. Martin France has built a career over the past two decades in largely acoustic environs. Along with being a member of the cooperative ECM group First House from the late 1980s, the British drummer has been involved in over fifty projects, including saxophonist Iain Ballamy's More Jazz (Basho, 2007) and pianist Gwilym ...
