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Michael Bardon

Practical Dreamers

By Ron Caines

Label: Discus Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Practical Dreamers Parts 1 to 7.

Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis: Practical Dreamers

by John Sharpe
October 11, 2024

Practical Dreamers is the fifth collaboration between Discus label boss multi-instrumentalist Martin Archer and veteran saxophonist Ron Caines, and like the others, situates the latter's largely introspective reeds within varied electro-acoustic soundscapes. Caines was a founding member of progressive British rock band East Of Eden back in 1967, but after leaving to pursue jazzier endeavors, he ...

River Of Light

By Ozzy Moysey

Label: Gondwana Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Greeting; Rejoicing; Niyama; Michael & Zelah; Equanimity; Spring Break On Trappist-1; Arc Of The Sun; Love Song; River Of Light; Pharoah Sings.

Ancient Infinity Orchestra: River Of Light

by Chris May
December 17, 2023

Since 2008, when he released his first album, Sending My Love, Yorkshire-based trumpeter and Gondwana label founder Matthew Halsall has been the catalyst for the emergence of a regionally distinct, Northern English sound in which spiritual jazz is the primary ingredient. This is unusual in England, a small country where most roads lead to London. The ...

Pale Blue Dot

By Johnny Hunter

Label: Northern Contemporary
Released: 2020

Nat Birchall Sextet: Exaltation / Live In Athens Vol 1

by Chris May
December 7, 2020

The saxophonist Nat Birchall is, alongside his friend the trumpeter Matthew Halsall, one of the instigators of the spiritual jazz scene centred around the northern British city of Manchester, two hundred miles and a lifestyle north of London. Birchall self-released his debut album, The Sixth Sense, in 1999. John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders and Alice ...

Nat Birchall: Obeah Man

by Chris May
July 8, 2019

Welcome to the latest analog-era time warp... the vinyl revival has rebirthed the 45rpm seven-inch jazz single. The format faded away in the 1960s. Even back then, chart hits such as Stan Getz's “Desafinado" (Verve, 1962) were freak events, but before the coming of album playing FM radio stations, an edited version of an album track ...

Nat Birchall: Creation

by Phil Barnes
November 23, 2016

Coming less than a year after the 2015 release Invocations on Henley's Jazzman records, Creation finds Nat Birchall back on his own Sound Soul and Spirit label. Long term collaborator Adam Fairhall on piano, and Johnny Hunter on drums are retained from that record and we welcome back Andy Hay as a second drummer, last heard ...