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Nick Walters

Dele Sosimi & Friends At Ronnie Scott's Club

by Chris May
June 15, 2023

Dele Sosimi & Friends Ronnie Scott's Club London June 11, 2023 Born in London but brought up in Lagos, keyboard player Dele Sosimi was a child prodigy who joined Fela Kuti's Egypt 80 the moment he left secondary school in 1979. Sosimi had by that time been rehearsing with Egypt ...

Active Imagination

By Nick Walters

Label: 22a
Released: 2020
Track listing: So Long Chef; Ahimsa; Gordian Knot Lart I; Gordian Knot Part II; Dansoman Last Stop.

The Piccolo: Tender Plays Tubby

By Tenderlonious

Label: Jazz Detective
Released: 2020
Track listing: Down In The Village; Trenton Place; Raga; In The Night.

Rebecca Nash: Peaceful King

by Chris May
February 23, 2020

You can judge a book by its cover, and likewise an album. Sometimes. Too often, striking content fails to follow striking packaging. British keyboard player Rebecca Nash's Peaceful King, however, proves to be as beautiful as its artwork and graphic design. It joins a handful of other more or less recent, promise-fulfilling albums, from which Binker ...

Nick Walters: Active Imagination

by Chris May
February 18, 2020

A rugged modal-based spiritual-jazz blowing session from the trumpeter Nick Walters, who has one foot in the underground London scene which is shaking up British jazz, and another in his home city, Manchester. Walters is a member of two Manchester bands, Riot Jazz Brass Band and Beats & Pieces Big Band, and leads the London-based Paradox ...

Peaceful King

By Rebecca Nash

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Peaceful King; Tumbleweed; Hot Wired; Grace; Dreamer; Lokma; Little Light; Inishbofin.

Beats and Pieces Big Band: Ten

by Ian Patterson
April 28, 2019

You'd be hard pressed to find a similarly sized big-band with the energy and spark exhibited by Manchester outfit Beats and Pieces Big Band. The fourteen-piece ensemble began life in the Royal Northern College of Music in 2008, when Ben Cottrell gathered thirteen of his fellow musicians to give life to his compositions. Ten years on, ...

Beats & Pieces Big Band: All In

by Bruce Lindsay
June 15, 2015

While almost every sensible thought screams “Don't Do It!" for good economic and logistical reasons, there are still plenty of jazz musicians for whom the big band is an ideal--and an attainable one at that. Manchester's Beats & Pieces Big Band is a fine example--the name may or may not be a nod to Manchester's '60s ...