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Saxophonist Nat Birchall has always been something of an enigma, a sublimely soulful saxophonist hidden from view in the Northern hills of England. His debut album Sixth Sense (1999) first announced him to the jazz world as an urgent tenor saxophonist with a feel for pulsing modal hard-bop. But it was his cult hit and now highly sought after soulful slice of spiritual jazz Akhenaten (released on trumpeter Matthew Halsall’s label, Gondwana Records, in 2009) that suggested that the spirit of Coltrane was alive and well in Northern England. Acclaimed by the critics (MOJO for one hailing its ‘spacial sunship beauty’ and ‘lyrical heat haze hypnotism’) Akhenaten together with Halsall’s own releases ‘Sending My Love’ and ‘Colour Yes’ helped create the unique sound that the Independent On Sunday described as ‘rain soaked spiritual jazz from Manchester”. Growing up in a Northern Village, Birchall was hardly exposed to jazz but through some friends fell in love with roots reggae and dub in the early ‘70s and it was the legendary Jamaican jazz-influenced saxophonists, Cedric Brooks, Tommy McCook, that inspired him take up the saxophone and through them that he discovered the music of John Coltrane
Emanuele Cisi, John Lamkin, Nat Birchall, Edison Machado, Mario Rusca, & More
by Tony Poole
Your weekly journey into the freshest jazz sounds from around the globe. Join Tony Poole for an hour of groove-driven selections, deep cuts, and cutting-edge new releases. Playlist All selections released in 2025 unless otherwise stated. Emanuele Cisi “Pharoah's Message" (Didje Doo Sunburst Mix) from KEEP THE VINYL MOVIN'--Support The Legacy EP (Right Tempol) ...
Quincy Jones, Jorge Pardo, Nat Birchall, Mulatu, Jhelisa, Nautilus, And More
by Tony Poole
Tony Poole selects his favourite new releases and pre-releases. The opening track remembers Quincy Jones with a rare live version of Killer Joe from 1972. Playlist Roberta Flack & Quincy Jones RIP “On A Clear Day/Killer Joe" from Save The Children OST (Motown) 00:00 Intro Music “They Call It Jazz" 08:27 James O'Donnell Quintet ...
The Most Exciting Jazz Albums Since 1969: 2011-2014
by Robert Middleton
What ties the albums together on our ninth installment of 72 Jazz Thrillers is the depth of emotion. Two joyous albums are followed by troubles, grace, exultation and deep sadness--albums from one of the greatest jazz composers of her age to a ramshackle bar band with a wild sense of humor. 72 Thrilling Jazz ...
Bennie Maupin & Adam Rudolph: Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef
by Chris May
Had the multi-reed player Yusef Lateef still been alive in 2020, he would have been celebrating his 100th birthday. Sadly, Lateef passed seven years earlier. But 93 years is a good span for a jazz musician, especially one of Lateef's generation, who came of age in time to cut his professional teeth in swing bands.
Ancient Africa
By Nat Birchall
Label: Ancient Archive of Sound
Released: 2021
Track listing: Ancient Africa; Paladins; Mirror Mind; Song For John Blanke; Malidoma; Ancestral Dance.
Adam Fairhall / Johnny Hunter: Winifred Atwell Revisited
by Chris May
Winifred Atwell was a gifted pianist, born in Trinidad, who came to Britain to study classical music at the Royal Academy of Music in 1946. By the early 1950s, a combination of talent and a husband who knew his way around British popular entertainment had established Atwell as a bill-topping theatrical and recording star.
Nat Birchall: Ancient Africa
by Chris May
Tucked away in the rural north of England, and so doubly off the media radar, tenor saxophonist Nat Birchall is one of Britain's best kept secrets. His specialism is the strand of spiritual jazz pioneered by John Coltrane in the mid 1960s. Since the turn of the millennium, Birchall has released a string of albums ringing ...
Exaltation / Live In Athens Vol 1
By Nat Birchall
Label: Parafono
Released: 2020
Track listing: Side One: For Michalis. Side Two: Exaltation; Humility.
Nat Birchall Sextet: Exaltation / Live In Athens Vol 1
by Chris May
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 ...
