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Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025
by Ludovico Granvassu
Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...
The Cortège Live At The BBC 1980
Label: Cadillac Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: It Starts Here;
Democratie;
Berlin-16.2.79;
Knivshult/Ash Wednesday;
Ruote Che Girano;
Piano;
Lenador;
July ‘79;
Enfance;
Cordoba;
Santarcangelo;
A Hearth Burns;
Graffitti.
Music From Swart, Lemish, Williams, Tibbetts & More
by Bob Osborne
A rich selection of brand new releases from across the wide world of jazz includes two new ECM Records albums, debut releases from breakthrough artists, and rare broadcasting recordings from a UK jazz icon. We close with two duo recordings from masters of their craft. Playlist Frank Swart Funkwrench Blues “Reflections ...
Various Artists: A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971
by Peter Jones
Throughout the 1950s (and beyond), modernist British jazz musicians were in thrall to the American bebop stars they had been trying to emulate since the late 1940s. It was the pinnacle to which they aspired, and gradually their efforts lifted the overall standard of UK jazz. But by the early 1960s, the international success ...
Band of Bands
Label: Westbrook Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Track Listing: Glad Day; Blues for Terenzi; Johnny Come Lately; Yellow Dog; Black Market; Doll’s House; My Lover’s
Coat; My Pale Parasol; Gas, Dust, Stone; What I Like
Talking the Groove: Jazz Words from the Morning Star
by Duncan Heining
Talking the Groove: Jazz Words from the Morning Star Chris Searle (foreword by Mike Westbrook) 394 pages ISBN: #978-1-9163206-7-3 Jazz in Britain 2024 Talking the Groove collects Chris Searle's more recent reviews, articles and interviews from the British socialist daily paper, the Morning Star, acting as a follow-up to ...
Mike Westbrook: Band of Bands
by Duncan Heining
For over six decades, composer, bandleader and musician Mike Westbrook has pursued a personal vision of jazz inspired by his hero Duke Ellington. That vision rests on the life-affirming, metamorphic potential at the music's heart. Band of Bands, built upon musical friendships old and more recent, is as fine a set of performances as any in ...
Superlocrian: Hills & Valleys
by Neil Duggan
Based in South West England, Superlocrian is an acoustic septet specialising in chamber jazz. Presumably named after the altered scale, they are led by trumpeter Sam Massey, the main composer and musical director. Their debut album, Hills & Valleys, a blend of five originals and three cover versions, features a neat blend of woodwind and brass. ...
Angles + Elle-Kari With Strings: The Death Of Kalypso
by Chris May
As a genre, jazz-opera is thinly populated. The recorded archive is marked more by quality than quantity, with albums by Mike Westbrook and Kate Westbrook, Carla Bley and Charlie Haden to the fore. But the best ever jazz-opera, in this parish anyway, predates anything by these musicians. Composer Todd Matshikiza and lyricist Pat Williams' King Kong ...
Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star
by Chris May
Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star Chris Searle 394 Pages ISBN: 978-1-9163206-7-3 Jazz In Britain 2024 Although Marxist-Leninist theory itself has proved to be, at best, a blind alley--and, at worst, in practice the enemy of the freedoms it claims to champion--writers from the Left ...
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