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Polar Bear with Jyager: Common Ground
by Bruce Lindsay
Sebastian Rochford, drummer and writer with Polar Bear, is one of Britain's most extraordinary musicians. The softly-spoken Scot is also one of the most curious of musicians, constantly seeking new sounds and collaborations both inside and outside the jazz world. On the fascinating Common Ground, Rochford gets new sounds from old sounds--eight of the tunes are ...
King Capisce: King Capisce
by Bruce Lindsay
King Capisce hails from Sheffield, in the north of England--the home city of Joe Cocker, ABC and the Arctic Monkeys. On the evidence of its debut , King Capisce, this quartet's own lineage bypasses these rock and pop superstars and tracks back, instead, to Sheffield's more experimental bands such as Cabaret Voltaire and ClockDVA, with contemporary ...
Kit Downes: You Have to Be What You Are
by Bruce Lindsay
Kit Downes' career as a jazz musician has, indeed, taken off in a very short time. He's still in his mid-20s, but such is his talent and appetite for music that Downes has become one of the most sought-after keyboardist in Britain, and he's a key presence in a series of cutting-edge bands, with The Golden ...
There's No Such Thing as a British Jazz Scene
by Bruce Lindsay
March and April 2010 were eventful months for JazzLife UK--my photo-documentary project on the jazz scene in Britain. Spring finally emerged from winter's grasp, snowdrops replaced snow drifts and jazz life got busier. Debates about jazz and the media took center-stage, at least for some of us, politicians limbered up for a General Election (I know ...
Quack Quack: Slow As An Eyeball
by Bruce Lindsay
Good grief, Slow As An Eyeball is fun. Not fun as in “quite enjoyable" or “this might bring a smile to the face," but fun as in Fun. The sort of immediate, raw and inescapable joy that leaps out of the speakers to demand smiles, dance action and increased volume all at the same time. The ...
Britain's 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards - Winners Announced
The 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards--organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG) and sponsored by PPL, the organisation that licenses the use of recorded music in the UK--were announced in the Terrace Bar of the House of Commons on the evening of Wednesday May 19th. On one of the warmest evenings of the year ...
Dave Stapleton Quintet: Between The Lines
by Chris May
Leading a band while simultaneously recording other musicians for your own label is no easy feat, but it's one pianist Dave Stapleton is achieving with style. Between The Lines is the third disc by the feisty and engaging Dave Stapleton Quintet for Edition Records, whose catalogue includes well received albums by Polar Bear saxophonist Mark Lockheart, ...
Take Five With Matt Stevens
by AAJ Staff
Meet Matt Stevens: Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi-layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as John McLaughlin and Sigur Ros. He plays live all over ...
Polar Bear: Peepers
by AAJ Italy Staff
Guidati dal batterista scozzese Sebastian Rochford, i Polar Bear abbinano nella formazione due sax tenore, quelli di Pete Wareham e di Mark Lockheart, la chitarra e l'elettronica di Leafcutter John [noto anche dalle nostre parti per i suoi progetti a cavallo tra songwriting e elettronica] e il contrabbasso di Tom Herbert. Attivi ormai da qualche anno, ...
Polar Bear Featured at AAJ!
Polar Bear has been on an upward trajectory since its inception in 2005. A critic and fan favorite in England, the quintet - saxophonists Pete Wareham and Mark Lockheart, bassisst Tom Herbert, guitarist Leafcutter John and drummer Sebastian Rochford - will be releasing its latest CD, Peepers (The Leaf Label, 2010) on March 1, 2010. AAJ ...
