Results for "MATT CARMICHAEL"

Matt Carmichael

Malcolm Strachan: Point Of No Return

by Neil Duggan
March 8, 2023

Something exciting seems to be happening with Scottish jazz musicians--artists such as Fergus McCreadie, Matt Carmichael and Georgia Cecile are gaining awards and international acclaim. They are now joined by Scottish trumpeter Malcolm Strachan, with his second album of original material, Point Of No Return . A former member of the Haggis Horns, he has been ...

Marram

By Matt Carmichael

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Far Away Ones; Dune; Road To The Sea; Waves; Marram; Horizon; On The Gloaming Shore (Pt.1); On The Gloaming Shore (Pt.2).

Matt Carmichael: Marram

by Chris May
November 22, 2022

The first thing to register, within the opening few bars of Glaswegian tenor saxophonist Matt Carmichael's sophomore album, is how remarkably similar his sound is to that of New York's emerging saxophone colossus Oded Tzur. In an interview with All About Jazz in summer 2022, the Israeli-born Tzur named his primary formative influence as the great ...

Where Will The River Flow

Label: Porthole Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Sognsvann; Firth; Canonbridge; The Spey; Interlude; Hopeful Mornings; Where Will The River Flow; Dear Grandma; Valley.

2 Debuts = 2 Quartets

by Friedrich Kunzmann
May 19, 2021

Bebop idioms prove far from extinct on these debut albums from two hungry cats, leading vigorous quartets with the mission to carry the bop torch of a young jazz generation. Nathan Francis Nathan Francis Quartet Ajabu! Records 2021 American bassist Nathan Francis has been based out of Helsinki, ...

Matt Carmichael: Where Will The River Flow

by Ian Patterson
April 18, 2021

Unless it dries up, the river will flow to the sea. A more intriguing question might be: where will the flow take Matt Carmichael? At twenty-one, in his final year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the tenor saxophonist--a BBC Young Jazz Musician Finalist in 2020--is only starting out on his musical journey. But his assured ...