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Nick Pini

Anima

By Jon Lloyd

Label: JonLloydMusic / ECN Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Build A Fire; Anima; Dancing; Southern Cross; Towards Tomorrow; Sheltering Sky; Priya; Altamira; Closer; (If) Only If; Winter Light.

Jon Lloyd: Anima

by Neil Duggan
September 24, 2026

Jon Lloyd Quartet's 2024 album Earth Songs (Ubuntu) racked up millions of streams. Anima sees the group building on that success with their distinctive blend of European contemporary jazz. Reflective melodies, inventive textures and spontaneity combine into a sound world of shifting moods, beauty and emotional appeal. The quartet lineup is unchanged from the ...

Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs

by Neil Duggan
March 16, 2025

Saxophonist Jon Lloyd has helped shape the UK jazz scene for several decades. Initially known for his energetic approach to free jazz, his creative ideas have gradually guided both himself and his group toward what he describes as “ECM quartet territory." Though ECM releases encompass a diverse range of musical styles, his description effectively evokes the ...

Earth Songs

By Jon Lloyd

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Al'Afiyah; Breaking the Waves; Cinq Feuilles; Flux; River; Meta Meta; Lanovo; Desert Song; The Trip; The Heron.

My Piano Trio

By Maurizio Minardi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Shiny; Poppies; Einaudito; Perludio; Canicola; Clapham Park; Magritte; Tulipano Nero; Breton; Magritte (remix).

Will Butterworth Trio/Adam Turns at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

by Ian Patterson
June 27, 2017

Will Butterworth Trio/Adam Turns: The Nightingale & The Rose Crescent Arts Centre Belfast Book Festival Belfast, N. Ireland June 17, 2017 Fortune and happenstance collided beautifully at the Belfast Book Festival with the performance of pianist Will Butterworth's jazz suite “The Nightingale & the Rose," inspired by Oscar Wilde's ...

Maurizio Minardi: Piano Ambulance

by Phil Barnes
February 18, 2015

Moving to London in September 2008 appears to have set Italian pianist Maurizio Minardi on a creative hot streak. A new name to me Piano Ambulance is the third album in which Minardi has chosen to share his love of jazz with us since 2012 and leaves the listener with an abiding impression of precision in ...

Dylan Howe: Subterranean: New Designs On Bowie's Berlin

by Bruce Lindsay
June 25, 2014

Dylan Howe is one of the UK's most versatile drummers--a long-standing member of The Blockheads, part of Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey's band on the chart-topping Going Back Home (Chess Records, 2014) and (alongside keyboard player Ross Stanley) part of his father, Steve Howe's, guitar trio. He's also responsible, with Will Butterworth, for a critically-acclaimed duo ...

Maurizio Minardi: The Cook, The Clown, The Monk And The Accordionist

by Bruce Lindsay
March 31, 2013

It's not the snappiest album title ever, but The Cook, The Clown, The Monk And The Accordionist, by the UK-based Italian musician Maurizio Minardi, is one snappy album. This is a standout recording, full of atmospheric music that combines immediately engaging hooks with sweeping narrative and emotional depth.Minardi's My Piano Trio (Belfagor Label, 2012) ...