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Spark
Label: Pumpkin Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Spark; It's Just a Ride; Matter (Energy Vibrating); Acrobat; Longbeat; Cookie Cutter; The Truth Machine; Wild Card; So Long.
Martin Speake / Mark Sanders: Spark
by John Kelman
British altoist Martin Speake has made a career out of doing things differently. With Exploring Standards (33 Records, 2003) he adopted a decidedly minimalist and miniaturist approach to jazz standards. Charlie Parker (Jazzizit, 2005) presented a modernistic alternative to most of the tributes recorded for the 50th anniversary year of the legendary saxophonist's death. So it ...
Change Of Heart
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Healing Power Of Intimacy; Change Of Heart; Barefaced Thieves; Venn; Buried
Somewhere; In The Moment; Three Hours; In Code.
Martin Speake: Change Of Heart
by Budd Kopman
One of the more interesting extra-musical things to observe in jazz is how the connections between musicians happen, and then, of course, how those connections affect the music they produce. In 1993, Martin Speake connected with Paul Motian, and they toured as a trio with bassist Mick Hutton, playing both Speake's and Motian's ...
Martin Speake: Change of Heart
by John Kelman
Change of Heart, alto saxophonist Martin Speake's first recording for ECM, will no doubt garner him some well-deserved international exposure. But he's been a fixture on the British scene for two decades, with a varied discography that a larger audience will now hopefully explore. This disc presents only one facet of Speake's interests, but it's as ...
Martin Speake: Change Of Heart
by Nic Jones
A certain clarity of purpose has always run throughout the documentation of Martin Speake's music on record. In an aspect of his career that has taken in quartets, an alto sax/piano duo and a saxophone quartet, Speake has proven himself to be a musician and composer with the ability to pursue his own vision. This quartet ...
My Ideal
Label: Basho Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Everything Happens To Me, My Ideal, What Is This Thing Called Love?, So In Love, Loverman, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Stardust, How Insensitive, You Must Believe In Spring.
Charlie Parker
Label: Jazzizit
Released: 2005
Track listing: Don't Blame Me; Star Eyes; Diverse; Donna Lee; Embrace Me; I'm in the Mood for Love; Visa; My Old Flame; Crazeology/Serpents Tooth; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; The Hymn Revisited; Yardbird
Martin Speake: Charlie Parker
by John Kelman
With this year marking the 50th anniversary of saxophonist Charlie Parker's death, all manner of tributes are likely to crop up. Italian saxophonist Stefano di Battista has already released the reverent Parker's Mood. But when British saxophonist Martin Speake spoke in an interview last year of doing a Parker tribute, given his proclivity for placing a ...
The Journey
Label: Black Box
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Journey; JT's Symmetrical Scale; Remember; Charukeshi; Playing in Todi; Still With Me
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