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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Top Ten Sci-Fi Jazz Albums

Read "Top Ten Sci-Fi Jazz Albums" reviewed by Chris May


On The Launch Pad Robert Frosch, head honcho at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1977 to 1981, wrote that at cocktail parties he was sometimes asked whether NASA had some gizmo or other that had recently been brought to fictional life in a sci-fi book or movie. If Frosch's answer was “No," the next ...

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Article: Album Review

Champagne Dub: Rainbow

Read "Rainbow" reviewed by Chris May


Rainbow is not a jazz album, not in a million light years, but it is a blast, and the two core members of Champagne Dub are British jazz-and-beyond musicians who have made careers out of going off piste. Good reasons for lending an ear. The renegade twosome are Max Hallett (aka Betamax), who ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Andrew Neil Hayes: Tenor Badness

Read "Andrew Neil Hayes: Tenor Badness" reviewed by Chris May


Something big and wild and loud was stirring on the alternative British jazz scene around 2015, 2016. In London, high-voltage tenor sax and drums duo Binker and Moses made their debut album, as did jazz-rock power trio The Comet Is Coming. Meanwhile, in the west of the country, in the port city of Bristol, tenor saxophonist ...

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Article: Album Review

The Comet Is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

Read "Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam" reviewed by Chris May


A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, tenor saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings (King Shabaka), synths maven Dan Leavers (Danalogue) and drummer Max Hallett (Betamax) were students at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. As alumni, they formed The Comet Is Coming. To jumble allusions with as much abandon as the band approach cosmic ...

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Article: Album Review

Nick Walters: Active Imagination

Read "Active Imagination" reviewed by Chris May


A rugged modal-based spiritual-jazz blowing session from the trumpeter Nick Walters, who has one foot in the underground London scene which is shaking up British jazz, and another in his home city, Manchester. Walters is a member of two Manchester bands, Riot Jazz Brass Band and Beats & Pieces Big Band, and leads the London-based Paradox ...

Article: Album Review

The Comet Is Coming: The Afterlife

Read "The Afterlife" reviewed by Serena Antinucci


Apocalisse. Quando si infrangeranno i limiti dei suoni ci sarà solo una luce a guidarci nella vita dell'aldilà. Questa luce sarà potente, esplosiva, rossa come il deserto che calpesteremo, ignari del futuro, del passato, del presente. In questa terra non ci sarà più tempo, né spazio, tutto sarà stato annullato nella vita precedente. Non si lotterà ...

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Article: Live Review

The Comet Is Coming at Black Box

Read "The Comet Is Coming at Black Box" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The Comet Is Coming Black Box 18th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Belfast, N.Ireland May 3, 2017 The Comet Is Coming knows how to make an entrance. Even the electronic sci-fi effects that kick-started its Black Box concert like some futuristic fanfare was loud enough to send vibrations through every ...


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