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Ray Russell: June 11, 1971 - Live at the ICA
by AAJ Italy Staff
L’edizione in vinile di questo album è praticamente introvabile da tantissimi anni e solo il passaparola fra musicisti ha fatto in modo di mantenerne viva la memoria, al punto da convincere Alan Licht e Jim O’Rourke che erano maturi i tempi per una riedizione ampliata su CD che la piccolissima etichetta americana Moikai ha pubblicato nel ...
Ray Russell: Goodbye Svengali
by Ty Cumbie
Heavy chops and slick production values are the dominant traits of this recording by British guitar wizard Ray Russell. While offering due tribute to the guitar master's powers, I would have liked to have heard more ideas and fewer effects. Russell was called up from the minors near the time fusion was starting ...
Ray Russell: Goodbye Svengali
by David Miller
Ray Russell is an eclectic. From rock to free jazz, fusion and pop, the guitarist has done it all. His newest effort, Goodbye Svengali, a tribute to a like-minded spirit (Gil Evans), highlights Russell's eclecticism. Nearly all of the aforementioned ground is covered, and Russell is in rare form throughout. Structuring this recording as a tribute ...
Ray Russell: Goodbye Svengali
by John Kelman
If you haven't been closely following the British jazz scene, you likely won't have heard of guitarist Ray Russell. In some ways he's simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. All too briefly replacing Chris Spedding in trumpeter Ian Carr's Nucleus, his more forward-thinking playing with that seminal jazz/rock outfit has only come ...
Ray Russell: Why Not Now
by John Kelman
Avoiding the worst trappings of New Age music yet leaning to its atmospheric ambience, guitarist Ray Russell's 1987 album Childscape , now released in remastered and expanded form as Why Not Now , is as interesting for what it's not as for what it is. It's too intrusive and insistent to be ambient; too ethereal to ...
Why Not Now
By Ray Russell
Label: Angel Air
Released: 2004
Track listing: Outland; Prelude 1; Pour Me a Fish; Blue Shoes - No Dance; Lunday Island; The Pan Piper; Childscape; Point Perfect; Prelude 2; If Only; Murmurs in Reverse; Sketches of Gil
Bonus Tracks: Avian; No Step; Snow (A Passing Phase); A Table Near the Band
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