Results for "Phil Durrant"

Phil Durrant

Distinctions

By Dominic Lash

Label: Spoonhunt
Released: 2021
Track listing: distinctions

Keune, Russell, Schneider, Lovens.: Nothing Particularly Horrible: Live in Bochum ‘93

by John Eyles
January 19, 2020

Recorded live in concert, in October 1993, at Museum Bochum, during the Ruhr Jazz Festival, this album is not a reissue but is being released for the first time, its wryly amusing title indicating that it has been declared fit for public consumption. In fact, the album's four tracks, being the only recordings of this Anglo-German ...

Rifinitori di momenti

By Phil Durrant

Label: Confront Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Tight Lines; Enganche; Triangulation; Regista; Conditions; False Ten; Whoosh Whoosh!; Half-Space; Fantasista.

Phil Durrant & Martin Vishnick: Rifinitori di momenti

by John Eyles
August 7, 2019

The fact that this duo exists is a testament to the network of improvised music workshops and venues that thrive in London, with interested musicians often hearing about them by word of mouth. One such workshop is Skronk, which is run every fortnight or so by New Zealand expat and saxophonist Rick Jensen, who welcomes all ...

John Butcher

by John Eyles
November 9, 2018

In the Building a Jazz Library article on Evan Parker, it says that seasoned Parker followers would describe him as the finest improvising saxophonist of his generation. Curiously, many of those same people would use exactly that phrase about John Butcher. The simple explanation for this apparent contradiction is that we are talking about two generations; ...

Two Contrasting Releases From Bertrand Denzler

by John Eyles
July 22, 2018

Although the Swiss-born saxophonist, improviser and composer Bertrand Denzler has a modestly-sized discography compared to some saxophonists, the recordings within it reveal a diverse range of collaborations and activities with a consistently-high quality level. For many years he has participated in ensembles such as Hubbub, The Seen and Trio Sowari, his distinctive saxophone sound being one ...