Results for "Paul Clarvis"

Pigfoot: Pigfoot Shuffle

by Ian Patterson
April 22, 2020

Once a taste for mischief is acquired it's hard to rein it in. Pigfoot was having way, way too much fun on 21st Century Acid Trad (Village Life Records, 2014) to go straight on this, its second outing. If the former happily warped New Orleans jazz, Pigfoot Shuffle applies a similar concept to a broader pool ...

Paul Clarvis

Born: April 9, 1963

Paul Clarvis plays with many different bands and is involved with all musical genres, working with musicians ranging from Leonard Bernstein, Harrison Birtwhistle and John Dankworth to Randy Crawford. He has recorded albums with Gordon Beck, Brian Ferry, John Williams, Sam Rivers, Moondog, John Adams, Mark Anthony Turnage, Marc Ribot / John Zorn, Michel Legrand, Elton John, Richard Thompson, Henry Lowther's Stillwaters and John Harle.

He has worked with Mose Allison, Randy Brecker, Ravi Shankar and most of the London orchestras as featured percussionist and drummer.

He is in great demand on film and recording sessions as a specialist hand drummer. Harrison Birtwhistle wrote the controversial piece 'PANIC' for Paul Clarvis and John Harle which was performed and televised at the last night of the Proms.

Pigfoot Shuffle

Label: Pokey Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Heartbreak Hotel; Dance of the Seven Veils; Pusherman; Jailhouse Rock/Hound Dog; The look of Love; Isis & Osiris/Dove Sono; Black Dog; For Once in My Life; Love Letters/Song to the Evening Star; Wives and Lovers.

Shuffle

By Chris Batchelor

Label: Pokey Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Heartbreak Hotel; Dance of the Seven Veils; Pusherman; Jailhouse Rock/Hound Dog; The look of Love; Isis & Osiris/Dove Sono; Black Dog; For Once in My Life; Love Letters/Song to the Evening Star; Wives and Lovers.

Sligo Jazz Project 2018: Days 3-4

by James Fleming
September 5, 2018

Days 1-2 | Days 3-4 Sligo Jazz Project Various Venues Sligo, Ireland July 24-29, 2018 July 26, 2018When the wind died down the day turned humid and heavy. Clouds hung low in the sky, grey and oppressive. And as Sligo's people sipped their coffees and settled down at their ...

Sligo Jazz Project 2018: Days 1-2

by James Fleming
August 18, 2018

Days 1-2 | Days 3-4Sligo Jazz Project Various Venues Sligo, Ireland July 24-29, 2018 July 24, 2018 The Garavogue River flows slow and lazy through the centre of town to Sligo Harbour. Mountains stand in the distance out in Yeats country, green and rocky, overlooking the fields on the ...

Henry Lowther: can't believe, won't believe

by Bruce Lindsay
January 14, 2018

If any jazz ensemble can be said to define the word “prolific" it's not Henry Lowther's Still Waters. The band's debut album, ID, appeared in 1997. can't believe, won't believe is its second release, just 21 years later. Good things, as they say, come to those that wait. Bandleader, composer and trumpeter Lowther has ...

Martin Speake: The Thinking Fan's Saxophonist

by Duncan Heining
April 28, 2017

British alto saxophonist, Martin Speake, is one of the most adventurous and articulate musicians in a music peppered with creative artists. That he is not a household name--even within the proscribed and marginalised world of jazz--says more about the times than it does about Speake or his single-minded approach to his art. Speake combines ...

Babelfish: Chasing Rainbows

by Bruce Lindsay
May 3, 2015

Lightness. Lightness of touch, of voice, of mood. That's the defining characteristic of Chasing Rainbows, the second album by UK quartet Babelfish. The line-up is the same as that on debut album Babelfish (Moletone Records, 2012). Vocalist Brigitte Beraha and pianist Barry Green are the band's writers. Bassist Chris Laurence and drummer Paul Clarvis ...

Viktoria Mullova Ensemble al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

by Paolo Peviani
March 24, 2015

Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 15.03.2015 L'edizione 2014-2015 di Aperitivo in Concerto ha dedicato ampio spazio al Brasile ed alla sua immensa tradizione musicale, che è stata affrontata -com'è nello spirito della rassegna -da varie angolazioni. Il concerto conclusivo di questa stagione è stato ...