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Noel Langley

George Russell’s New York N.Y. Receives World Premiere At Milton Court

by Chris May
September 29, 2023

Guildhall Induction Jazz Orchestra & Choir Milton Court Concert Hall Guildhall School of Music & Drama London September 27, 2023 Addressing the audience before the Guildhall Induction Jazz Orchestra's recreation of George Russell's first large-ensemble masterpiece, New York N.Y. (Decca, 1959), director and conductor Scott Stroman explained the choice ...

Glimpses of Truth

By Ivo Neame

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Rise of The Lizard People; Strega; Broken Brains; Phasing Song; Persevere Part 1; Persevere Part 2; Ghostly Figure.

Tamil Rogeon: Son Of Nyx

by Chris May
January 22, 2021

An energetic, modal, fusion release coming out of the alternative jazz scene in Melbourne, Australia, Son of Nyx is a good album which almost succeeds in being more than that, but, frustratingly, does not achieve lift-off until the closing track, “Horns No Eyes." Tamil Rogeon first surfaced as co-leader of the jazz and ...

Chris May’s Best Releases Of 2020

by Chris May
December 7, 2020

Not the best year for live gigs in London, but Dele Sosimi's Afrobeat Orchestra just made it under the wire, lighting up the Jazz Cafe in late January. Rather like Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Sosimi's band has form as an incubator of young talent. A recent star in the making was trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, who has ...

Johanna Burnheart: Techno Jazz Shines A Light: New Directions In Music

by Chris May
October 28, 2020

A relatively new name on London's alternative jazz scene, the German-born violinist, vocalist and composer Johanna Burnheart has made a rapid ascent since leaving the city's Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2018. She has played on three of the scene's benchmark albums--spiritual-jazz band Maisha's There Is A Place (Brownswood, 2018), trombonist Rosie Turton's 5ive ...

Samuel Hällkvist: Epik Didaktik Pastoral

by Chris May
July 19, 2020

Swedish guitarist Samuel Hällkvist's rifftastic electric trio plays an exhilarating mixture of jazz, prog rock and minimalist music. Riffs aside, the key ingredients are cross rhythms, rhythmic displacement and lavish servings of MIDI-enabled keyboards and tuned percussion. The result is heavy on the tension and light on the release. A close comparator is Swiss keyboard player ...

Yazz Ahmed: The Inclusive Saboteuse

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 5, 2020

Pretty much from the beginning of her career, trumpet and flugelhorn player Yazz Ahmed has been intent on sabotaging the walls and fences that divide the jazz world, championing an inclusive vision in which Arabic traditions blend seamlessly with loops and electronics, and rock and pop can offer jazz plenty of inspiration. Two years ...

Geoffrey Eales: Transcience

by Budd Kopman
August 14, 2016

Transience is Welsh pianist/composer Geoffrey Eales' thirteenth release dating back to 1999. All of the words and music are by Eales, and he has taken this opportunity to express in music his feelings about how ephemeral human existence is in general, but also specifically of the passing within the past year of his mother, as well ...

Edentide

By Noel Langley

Label: Suntara Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: For the Uncommon Man; The Turning House; Sven's Island; Glass; Four for One; On Haast Beach; Minami; Edentide