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Orphy Robinson
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Orphy Robinson MBE. Robinson is an award winning musician who specialises on Vibraphone & Percussion. The winner of the 2017 Jazz fm Awards “Live Performance of the year’ for his Bobby Hutcherson Songbook project. Robinson was awarded an MBE for “services to music” in the Queen’s birthday Honours list in June 2018. In 2015 he received a top 12 placing in the Critics Poll for the Jazz magazine Downbeat in ‘Vibraphonist of the year’ category. The first time a musician from the UK has achieved this accolade. One of the few musicians from the UK to have been signed to legendary record label ‘Blue Note,' where he released 2 albums and 2 EP’s to great critical and international acclaim
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. ...
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70, Takuya Kuroda, Redtenbacher’s Funkestra, Allexa Nava, John Beltran & More
by Tony Poole
One hour of nothing but the freshest new releases and pre-releases. Join Tony Poole for the freshest worldwide jazz grooves from across the globe. Playlist Fela Kuti and The Africa '70 “Let's Start" from Live with Ginger Baker, 1971 (Knitting Factory Records) Christelle Durandy “We Were Born To Drum" from Salsa de la Bahia ...
Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story Of The UK Jazz Explosion
by Ian Patterson
Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story Of The UK Jazz Explosion André Marmot 424 Pages ISBN: 978-0-571-37448-9 Faber & Faber 2024 Anyone who has kept half an eye on the UK/London jazz scene since the turn of the century will likely be aware that jazz there has gone from being ...
Take Five with Tap Dancer Petra Haller
by AAJ Staff
Meet Petra Haller Petra Haller, based in London, UK, is a respected figure in the fields of tap dance and music. Honored as a Rising Jazz Artist by Jazzwise Magazine and mentioned as one of Reader's Digest's “10 Female Jazz Musicians You need to Know" Haller has swiftly risen in prominence in the UK and beyond. ...
Tomos Williams: An Absolute Riot! Risings, Race And Identity In Wales
by Ian Patterson
Threads. They wind their way through history, overlapping, interconnecting and sometimes weaving strange and powerful narratives that never really end, but simply grow and evolve. In 2020, half a millennium after the first transatlantic slave ships set sail from Europe to Africa, cheering protesters in Bristol, England, dumped the statue of slave trader Edward ...
Tomos Williams: Cwmwl Tystion II: Riot!
by Ian Patterson
Billowing clouds of black smoke dominate a blood-red backdrop. From the cover alone, it is clear that trumpeter/composer Tomos Williams has something extra-musical to say. The Welsh language project name--Cwmwl Tystion means 'witness'--and the English title-- Riot!--writ large, expel any doubt. Inspired by events both famous and infamous in Welsh history--workers revolts, pogroms and race riots--this ...
Cwmwl Tystion II: Riot!
Label: Tŷ Cerdd
Released: 2023
Track listing: Cadw tŷ mewn cwmwl tystion / Keeping house in a cloud of witnesses; Merthyr Rising 1831; Tonypandy Riots
1910; Tredegar Riots 1911; Bet yw byw?/What is living?; Cardiff Race Riots 1919; Mahmood Mattan 1952.
Tony Kofi Quartet: Plays Monk
by Chris May
When it was first released in autumn 2004, Tony Kofi's Plays Monk: All Is Know (as it was then titled) was the saxophonist's first release as leader, a full thirteen years after his emergence with high-profile young Turks the Jazz Warriors. The album went on to win the BBC Jazz Awards Album Of The Year prize. ...
Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022
by Ian Patterson
Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022 The MAC Belfast, Northern Ireland November 3-4, 2022 Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference saw over one hundred delegates gather at Belfast's Metropolitan Arts Centre (The MAC) for two days of talks, exchange of ideas and music showcases (see separate article). Founded around a decade ago, ...
