Results for "Neil Charles"

Neil Charles

Brilliant Corners 2026

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2026

Brilliant Corners 2026Black Box/Various VenuesBelfast, N. IrelandFebruary 27-March 7, 2026 Few events signpost the time of year quite like a city's flagship contemporary music festival. For one week every March, as winter gradually recedes, Belfast's aptly named Brilliant Corners illuminates jazz--and jazz-adjacent music--in many of its myriad forms. Inevitably, some of the more outré ...

Dark Days

By Neil Charles

Label: Jazz Now
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dark Days; I Knew It; Why Do We Hate; They Do Not See; Dark Days Outro; Sing Or Shout; Children; Army; Treason; A Nation; Find A Way.

Xhosa Cole, Archipelago, Neil Charles, And More

by Colin Muirhead
October 4, 2025

Featuring music by acts performing at this year's Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, including Xhosa Cole, Archipelago, Neil Charles, and the John Pope Quintet. Playlist Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall “Carnatic Stream" from Triangles (New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings) 00:00 Archipelago “Waiting" from Echoes to the Sky (New Jazz and Improvised ...

New Music From Tintweiss, Perelman, Irabagon And More

by Bob Osborne
September 4, 2025

On this edition of World of Jazz there is a selection of new releases coupled with more exciting music from the re-release of the Strata-East catalogue and to open a fascinating snap shot of late-'60s free jazz. Playlist Steve Tintweiss and The Purple Why “California Sandra" from Live In Tompkins Square Park (Inky ...

Neil Charles Quartet: Dark Days

by Mark Corroto
August 25, 2025

In 2025, amid global unrest and political fracture, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom can feel like a distant dream, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech like a myth from a gentler past. Has social media, with all its noise and manipulations, induced a kind of societal amnesia? ...

Stephen Davis: Leaving It All Out There

by Ian Patterson
February 27, 2025

"How come I haven't heard of you before?" a surprised Anthony Braxton asked Northern Irish drummer/percussionist Stephen Davis. The venerable American saxophonist and composer was bowled over after playing with Davis for the first time. Most musicians are. It is no secret in Ireland, or indeed Europe at large, that Belfast-born Davis is ...

Towards The Flame Vol 1

By Robert Mitchell

Label: 577 Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ignitions; Clouds Ablaze.

Something Else!, Trios, And More

by Bob Osborne
June 27, 2024

Featuring new releases from Something Else with Vincent Herring, Ellie Lee, The Jazzanians, Borderlands Trio (Stephan Crump Kris Davis & Eric McPherson), David Murray, Eternal Triangle, François de Larrard & Mathieu Bec, Jake Hertzog, Kevin Figes, Modern Black Music Ensemble, The Flame (Robert Mitchell, Neil Charles, Mark Sanders), Tom Skinner, and Verb. Playlist Intro ...

Carnival Celestial

By Alexander Hawkins

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Rapture; Puzzle Cannon; Fuga, The Fast One; Cannon Celestial; Rupture; Sarabande Celestial; Unlimited Groth Increases The Divide; If Nature Were A Bank They Would Have Saved It Already; Carnival Celestial; Counterpoint Celestial; Echo Celestial.