Results for "Paul Clarvis"

Mark Lewandowski: A Bouquet (for Lady Day)

by Ian Patterson
August 10, 2023

A regular in the Mingus Big Band and Wynton Marsalis' quartet, New York-based Mark Lewandowski has won numerous awards for his sonorous double bass playing, which can be appreciated in settings as diverse as John Zorn's The Book of Beri'ah (Tzadik Records, 2018) and Joe Chamber's Dance Kobina (Blue Note Records, 2022). As a leader, Lewandowski ...

Paul Clarvis Trio At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
February 25, 2023

Paul Clarvis Trio Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland February 19, 2023 The last gig of Paul Clarvis Trio's fifteen-date UK tour to promote its debut album Freight Train (Village Life, 2022) was likely its smallest and furthest removed from bright city lights. Magy's Farm, a rural venue with a capacity of ...

Will Glaser: Climbing In Circles

by Chris May
January 6, 2021

Women musicians seem more inclined to describe their albums as “playful" than their male counterparts. We need not spend time speculating on the reasons for that here. Playful, however, is the word that best sums up this delightful trio album by two generations of male musicians. Young bloods drummer Will Glaser and saxophonist Matthew Herd have ...

Josephine Davies: Way Out East: New Directions In Jazz

by Chris May
September 29, 2020

Compared to many other bands which have emerged on London's revitalized jazz scene since the mid 2010s, saxophonist and composer Josephine Davies' trio Satori has attracted relatively little noise. This may be because, unlike most of its contemporaries, Satori is not infused with dancefloor-friendly grooves. Davies instead looks to Eastern culture, particularly to Buddhist texts and ...

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

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.

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 3-4 Sligo 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 ...