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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 ...
AAJ's Top 15 Interviews of 2009
by AAJ Staff
With nearly 150 interviews published in 2009, AAJ continues to provide the most extensive jazz coverage on the web. We also expanded our interview coverage to include, for those surrounding new CD releases: associated Daily Download tracks; accompanying CD reviews; contest giveaways; and more. As always, AAJ provided coverage of well-known artists ...
Isla
Label: Real World Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Mass Charge And Spin; The Visitor; Dawn Patrol; Line; Life Mask Interlude; Clipper; Life Mask; Isla; Shed Song (Improv No. 1).
Portico Quartet at Norwich Arts Centre, UK
by Bruce Lindsay
Portico Quartet Norwich Arts Centre Norwich, UK November 16, 2009 Portico Quartet is establishing itself at the forefront of the British jazz scene--a young band with a distinctive and recognizable sound that is both immediately accessible and also full of complex patterns and melodies that repay repeated listening. ...
Innovative British Group Portico Quartet Interviewed at AAJ
The history of Portico Quartet is brief, but it's also eventful. Since forming in 2005, this young British band have seen their first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007), become a Mercury Music Award Album of the Year, they've gathered rave reviews for their second album, Isla (Real World, 2009), and they've introduced ...
Portico Quartet: Not Particularly a Jazz Band
by Bruce Lindsay
The history of Portico Quartet is brief, but it's also eventful. Since forming in 2005, this young British band have seen their first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007), become a Mercury Music Award Album of the Year, they've gathered rave reviews for their second album, Isla (Real World, 2009), and they've introduced ...
Portico Quartet: Isla
by Chris May
Having created a seismic sensation in Britain with its first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007)--which was a Mercury Prize Album Of The Year in 2008--Portico Quartet now releases that “difficult" second album. Can the group better its precocious debut? Yes it can. Portico has grown, as a collective entity and as individual ...
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