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Article: Interview

Canterbury e dintorni secondo Ferdinando Faraò

Read "Canterbury e dintorni secondo Ferdinando Faraò" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi


Fasano, solare cittadina pugliese in provincia di Brindisi, è da 17 anni teatro di un festival jazz eterodosso e controcorrente che, oltre a valorizzare talenti locali e a tenere alta la bandiera del jazz italiano (nel corso degli anni la rassegna ha ospitato, tra gli altri, Franco Cerri, Antonello Salis, Roberto Ottaviano, Franco D'Andrea, Stefano Bollani, ...

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Article: Album Review

Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam

Read "Unrecorded Beam" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Uno scrittore/pensatore originale e decentrato come Henry David Toureau, un musicista altrettanto originale come Billy Bottle--multistrumentista alla corte di Mike Westbrook, sentimentalmente colluso con la Canterbury Scene -, un'etichetta d'avanguardia e intransigente come Leo Records, ed ecco servito Unrecorded Beam. Unrecorded Beam è il senso della vita visto attraverso la natura, i suoi ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond by Colin Harper

Read "Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond by Colin Harper" reviewed by Colin Harper


Exclusive extract adapted from Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond By Colin Harper. Published (UK and US) March 26, 2014 by Jawbone Press “British jazz is awash with young talent which, given a healthy set of circumstances and a fair share of work, could produce a generation of ...

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Article: Live Review

Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2014

Read "Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2014" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Norfolk And Norwich Festival Norwich, UK May 9-25, 2014 From a refurbished high street bank, to a 15th century church, via a Georgian trading hall and a 100-year-old travelling mirror tent, the 2014 Norfolk and Norwich Festival's jazz program covered a range of venues that offered plenty of history, quirkiness and ...

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Article: Album Review

Charlotte Glasson: Festivus

Read "Festivus" reviewed by Roger Farbey


This exceptional album succeeds on several levels. First there's Glasson herself, an undeniably, prodigiously talented multi- instrumentalist whose diverse armamentarium would successfully rival that of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's, maybe substituting his stritch for her saw. The nine tracks here all benefit from Glasson's imaginative arrangements for which the word “quirky" would be hardly adequate. ...

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Article: Album Review

Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam

Read "Unrecorded Beam" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist Billy Bottle is the pianist for renowned big band leader Mike Westbrook and has performed with British progressive rock luminaries. His octet and guest artists incorporate jazz rock and folk with a splash of Indie pop on this beguiling set. It's outlined on eminent American author and transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau's poems, also providing ...

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Article: Album Review

Bob Downes: Deep Down Heavy

Read "Deep Down Heavy" reviewed by Vic Albani


Quando AAJ mi ha spedito questo CD, non volevo credere che sarebbe stato possibile arrivare alla ristampa di uno dei CD più particolari, curiosi e per certi versi assurdi pubblicati nell'ormai lontano 1970. Fu un anno davvero particolare per la musica europea che, sin dai primi mesi, dimostrò di credere seriamente a una sorta di “cambio ...

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Article: Album Review

Norma Winstone: Edge of Time

Read "Edge of Time" reviewed by Roger Farbey


This reissue features many of the most significant musicians in British jazz of the late 1960s and 70s. It also benefits from imaginative compositions and arrangements by John Taylor, John Warren, Neil Ardley, John Surman and Norma Winstone herself. The opening, title track written by Taylor and Winstone is a memorable exploration ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Mike and Kate Westbrook: The Serpent Hit

Read "Mike and Kate Westbrook: The Serpent Hit" reviewed by Duncan Heining


Mike and Kate Westbrook have a reputation for tackling big subjects--war, European history, life and death and the nature of art and creativity. With The Serpent Hit, they turn their attention to perhaps the grandest subject of them all--the fall from grace and the loss of paradise. This beautifully packaged CD features a gorgeous ...

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Article: Album Review

Tolvan Big Band: Effortlessly - Music by Helge Albin

Read "Effortlessly - Music by Helge Albin" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Swedish saxophonist, composer and arranger Helge Albin has led the Tolvan Big Band since 1979. Albin turned this ambitious, up-to-date big band, located in Malmö in southern Sweden, into a musical institution with an international reputation. They have collaborated with notable American musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker, British composer Mike Westbrook ...


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