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Article: Live Review

Live From Birmingham: Hamid Drake, Paul Dunmall & The Phoenix Jazzmen

by Martin Longley
November 5, 2016

The Paul Dunmall & Hamid Drake Quintet mac October 4, 2016 This gig was part of a very short three-date tour, assembled by Birmingham promoter Tony Dudley-Evans. Saxophonist Paul Dunmall's free jazz and improvising eminence has now cloaked the entire globe, so his regular Stateside tours have helped forge relationships ...

Article: Album Review

Barry Guy: The Blue Shroud

Read "The Blue Shroud" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 17, 2016

In some ways, The Blue Shroud might be Barry Guy's signature work. It's the first to unite his varied interests in Baroque music, composition, jazz and improv at an orchestral scale. To do so Guy assembles a 14-strong crack unit capable of interpreting each aspect to the highest level, including several early music specialists who are ...

Article: Profile

Barry Guy: Ploughs into Swordshares, Part 1-3

by Duncan Heining
February 21, 2016

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Edgar Varèse's defiant statement in the face of public and critical indifference -"The present day composer refuses to die"—could so easily apply to composer-bassist Barry Guy. He has earned over the years a deep and lasting respect from certain fans and critics, though more so in ...

Article: Interview

Andy Sheppard: Tales From the Bristol Underground Jazz Revolution

by Ian Patterson
May 5, 2015

"Jazz has always been an underground thing. It doesn't have the power and might of opera, but it should," says Andy Sheppard, shortly after the UK premier of Surrounded by Sea (ECM, 2015) at the Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival. “Everyone in the music industry has a respect for jazz music, and they should, I think, ...

Article: Live Review

Take Five UK 2015

by Ian Patterson
February 24, 2015

Take Five UK Edition X Bore Place Kent, England February 9 -14, 2015 Nestled in the heart of the Kent countryside is Bore Place, an organic farm that dates to the seventeenth century. Here, the mobile phone signal is unreliable and internet connection is dickey at best. The only sound ...

Album

Between Shadows

By Reuben Fowler

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Too Minor; Introduction To Holness; Holness; Dundry (For JGB); Between Shadows; Pt. 1: Introduction; Pt. 2: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square; Pt. 3: The Lost; Pt. 4: The Lost And The Found; Pt. 5: Ending.

Article: Extended Analysis

Jack Davies Big Band: The Jack Davies Big Band

by Chris May
April 23, 2012

Jack Davies Big BandThe Jack Davies Big BandV&V Music2012With its debut album, trumpeter and composer Jack Davies' big band has joined an elite strand of British orchestras--Loose Tubes, flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler's outfits and Colin Towns' Mask Orchestra prominent among them--which have enriched and expanded the original big band ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Ed Puddick Big Band / Frank Macchia / Rick Wald NY 16

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2011

Ed Puddick Big Band Guys & Dolls Diving Duck Records 2010 The late Frank Loesser wrote at least 700 songs, more than a dozen of which are included in the score for the smash musical Guys and Dolls, which, believe it or not, opened on Broadway more than sixty years ...