Results for "Michael League"

Keeping Company

By Bill Laurance

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Katerina; You; Yours; Escher; How Does It Feel; Stonemaker; Africa; Clay; Where You Wanna Go; Trails; Iki Keklik, Bir Kayada.

Bill Laurance and Michael League: Keeping Company

by Neil Duggan
November 24, 2024

Bill Laurance is one of the UK's most inventive pianists. His compositions and arrangements have involved multiple formats, including trios, duos, orchestras and solo piano, but he is best known as a member of the 19-piece jazz-funk-fusion ensemble Snarky Puppy. He joined the band at the invitation of their founder, U.S. multi-instrumentalist Michael League. They have ...

Jazzkaar 2024

by Martin Longley
August 7, 2024

Jazzkaar Telliskivi Creative City Tallinn, Estonia April 21-28, 2024 Customarily, the almost-always April placement of the Jazzkaar festival is accompanied by a goodly beaming of spring-flavored sunshine, perhaps infected by the odd murky downpour, but soon drying off its feathers. Instead, during 2024's 35th edition, Tallinn's wondrous eight-dayer ...

Ferran Rico

Born: January 23, 1999

Between head-nodding grooves and meaningful melodies, Ferran’s music brings together contemporary jazz with central European harmony, his Mediterranean origin and his love for

the music of the world, with the common denominator of deep roots in improvised Black American Music. Ferran offers a unique, very entertaining yet encompassing show.

Kinga Glyk: Real Life

by Mike Jurkovic
January 15, 2024

Throughout daredevil bassist Kinga Głyk's Real Life there are several moments which border menacingly on mainstream Euro-pop and wanna-be fusion. Fortunately those (intentional or unintentional?) moments are heavily outweighed and outnumbered by thrillingly incandescent moments which lend themselves to that old catch-all street phrase of the '60s, '70s, and '80s: “Man this is some really high ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

History

By Michael League

Label: Real World Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Bliss; Adjoni; Pa Domi; Ilimine; Fle A Memwa; Ta Voix; Tande; Mikwob; History.

Where You Wish You Were

By Bill Laurance

Label: The Act Company
Released: 2023
Track listing: La Marinada; Meeting of the Mind; Round House; Sant Esteve; Kin; Tricks; Anthem for a Tiny Nation; Ngoni Baby; Bricks; Where You Wish You Were; Duo.

Marco Bardoscia Quintet al Teatro Ristori di Verona

by Angelo Leonardi
November 21, 2023

Marco Bardoscia Quintet Rassegna Jazz del Teatro Ristori Verona 16.11.2023 Inaugurata il 14 settembre col trio Michael Blicher/Dan Hemmer/Steve Gadd, la nuova stagione jazz del Teatro Ristori ha ospitato il 16 novembre il recente progetto “Legnomadre" di Marco Bardoscia, che vede il clarinettista Gabriele Mirabassi e il percussionista Simone Padovani ...

Drummer Scott Amendola, Red Kite, Drift Lab and Jukka Haavisto

by Len Davis
November 12, 2023

Avant jazz from Scott Amendola from Haunted By Eternity, Norwegain band Red Kite, and London based European band Code. Italian guitarist Rugerro Robin and his Jazz Trio, Drift Lab featuring Matteo Mancusco, and Peter Fernandez from Incline. Finnish bassist Jukka Haavisto, Danish keyboard player Mathias Heise and US band FORQ featuring Michael League. Playlist Scott Amendola “Maciste ...