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Various Artists: Scarborough Jazz Festival Present: 2024 Live Festival Compilation
by Neil Duggan
In the late 1960s, record labels introduced inexpensive compilation albums that typically focused on specific genres. These collections strategically paired established artists with emerging talents. By doing so, they offered listeners an accessible entry point to discover multiple artists within a particular scene--essentially functioning as an early form of playlist. While such musical curation now primarily ...
Donovan Haffner: Alleviate
by Neil Duggan
Saxophonist Donovan Haffner's musical journey began early. He was touring Italy and the UK with Moses Boyd when he was only 18 years old. He has gone on to play with Jay Phelps, Charlie Stacey and the Balimaya Project as well as graduating from the Royal Academy of Music. Haffner now takes the next ...
Emil Brandqvist Trio: Poems For Travellers
by Neil Duggan
With over 50 million streams across global digital platforms, the Emil Brandqvist Trio has established itself as one of the most compelling trios in Europe. The Scandinavian band's previous release, Layers of Life (Skip Records, 2023), demonstrated the trio's rising international appeal, securing the No. 2 position on the German jazz charts and setting the stage ...
Billy Marrows And Grande Familia: The Penelope Album Live
by Neil Duggan
In 2024 London-based guitarist and composer Billy Marrows formed a 12-piece chamber-jazz ensemble. Together as Billy Marrows and Grande Familia, they released their debut album, Penelope (Self Produced), in memory of Marrows' mother, Penny. This deeply personal project used tunes he had written during her battle with cancer. The band featured Marrows' musical friends and relations ...
Ferdinando Romano: The Legends Of Otranto
by Neil Duggan
The Legends of Otranto is a suite in six movements inspired by the stories and legends surrounding Otranto, an ancient city in the Salento area of Italy, which is sometimes referred to as the heel of Italy's boot. All compositions were written and arranged by Florentine bassist Ferdinando Romano. The music is provided by ...
Electric Gumbo: It's On!
by Neil Duggan
Best known as the bassist and founder of the popular jazz quartet Sharp Little Bones, Simon Paterson found that not all of his compositions were suitable for that small band format and needed a more expansive outlet. He achieves this with Electric Gumbo, a winning combination of established musicians and rising talents who form a 17-member ...
Matt Carmichael: Dancing With Embers
by Neil Duggan
Scottish tenor saxophonist Matt Carmichael captured attention with his first album Where Will The River Flow (Porthole Music, 2021), garnering over 8 million streams. His second album, Marram (Edition Records, 2022), developed his blend of jazz and Scottish folk, winning “Best Album" in the Scottish Jazz Awards. He follows this with Dancing With Embers, which changes ...
Quinn Sternberg: Pleasant Returns
by Neil Duggan
This is album number five from bassist Quinn Sternberg. It follows on from Walking On Eggshells (Mind Beach Records, 2023). A resident of Asheville, North Carolina, as of this writing, Sternberg returned to New Orleans for the recording. He had previously worked in the city for nearly a decade and notes that “Having not seen or ...
Dreamweavers: Woven In Time
by Neil Duggan
The group Dreamweavers is the vision of two guitarists, one who acts as the lead player and the other who predominantly acts as producer, also adding lap steel guitar and mandocello (the baritone member of the mandolin family) to the musical mix. Woven In Time is their first release and the result of their ongoing collaboration. ...
Luca Dell'Anna: Tactile
by Neil Duggan
Italian pianist and composer Luca Dell'Anna draws from a rich tapestry of musical traditions. His earliest influences came from his grandfather, whose accordion playing was rooted in Italian folk music. At home, his father's diverse record collection introduced him to the works of Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and Johann Sebastian Bach. As Dell'Anna developed his ...
