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Various Brits: Just Not Cricket!
by Mark Corroto
In the 1972 Monty Python Flying Circus skit Are You Embarrassed," the announcer reads the lines, Are you embarrassed easily? I am. But it's nothing to worry about; it's all part of growing up and being British." The announcer goes on to describe embarrassing words like Shoe" ..... Megaphone" ..... Grunties," to test the listener's discomfort ...
Phil Meadows Group: Engines Of Creation
by Bruce Lindsay
Good things happen on Engines Of Creation: things like imagination, inventive writing, great playing, a sense of humor, an awareness of economy. It's a heartening combination, especially as it arises from a group of young players who have only recently emerged onto the professional jazz scene.Saxophonist Phil Meadows leads the ensemble and writes the ...
Bourne / Kane / Davis: Manchester, UK, April 12, 2013
by Ian Patterson
Matthew Bourne, Dave Kane and Steve DavisRhythm Changes: Rethinking Jazz Cultures ConferenceMedia City UKSalford Quays, Manchester, EnglandApril 12, 2013Watching three improvising musicians perform in front of a hundred or so jazz academics felt a little akin to watching a gallery of chief surgeons observing an unusual operation, although the ...
Rhythm Changes: Rethinking Jazz Cultures
by Ian Patterson
Rhythm Changes Media City UK, Salford Rethinking Jazz Cultures Conference Manchester, UK April 11-14, 2013 The study of jazz in academic institutions may be a relatively modern trend, but the presence of over a hundred academics from South Africa to Russia and from America to Portugal at the Rhythm Changes: ...
Take Five Europe: January 28-February 2, 2013
by John Kelman
Take Five EuropeBore PlaceSevenoaks Weald, Kent, UKJanuary 28-February 3, 2013While solid jazz education for aspiring musicians is increasingly accessible, few programs tackle the harsh realities facing the emerging musician of the 21st century. With the dissolution of major labels, and a shift in revenue that often makes having a publicist and/or ...
Montauk Variations
Label: The Leaf Label
Released: 2012
Track listing: Air (for Jonathan Flockton); The Mystic; Phantasie; Infinitude; Étude Psychotique (for John Zorn); Within; One for You, Keith; Juliet; Senectitude; The Greenkeeper (for Neil Dyer); Abrade; Here (In Memory of Philip Butler-France); Gone (In Memory of Philip Butler-France); Knell (In Memory of Philip Butler-France); Cuppa Tea (for Paul Bolderson); Unsung; Smile.
European Jazz Network General Assembly: Bari, Italy, September 27-30, 2012
by Henning Bolte
European Jazz Network General AssemblyBari/ItalySeptember 27-30, 2012The European Jazz Network (EJN)-an association of presenters, producers of venues, festivals and of facilitating national jazz organizations from various European countries-celebrated its 25th anniversary during its General Assembly, which took place September 27-30, 2012 at the Puglian capital, Bari, in South Italy.From the very ...
Matthew Bourne: Montauk Variations
by AAJ Italy Staff
Montauk Variations è il terzo album in solo del pianista Matthew Bourne. Il primo in studio (dopo il debutto con For John Zorn & Mike Osborne" del 2001 e The Molde Concert" del 2007), registrato a Montauk, in cui il prolifico improvvisatore britannico si trova davvero solo con il suo piano. Operazione complessa per uno navigato ...