Results for "Sebastian Rochford"

Reed Rapture With Liebman And More

by Bob Osborne
February 2, 2023

On this show we continue our exploration of Ivo Perelman's Reed Rapture In Brooklyn, this time focusing on his partnership with Dave Liebman. As well as further music from Liebman we also have excellent new releases from Blood Quartet, Mette Henriette, Sebastian Rochford & Kit Downes, Stephan Micus, Anders Jormin, and Maximiliano Kirszner.Playlist Show ...

Sebastian Rochford / Kit Downes: A Short Diary

by Karl Ackermann
January 10, 2023

London-based drummer Sebastian Rochford (aka, Seb) and pianist Kit Downes have a long working history but have recorded only once as a duo on the EP Live @ The Vortex (Loop Collective, 2012). They reunite on the poignant and cerebral A Short Diary. Rochford began his relationship with ECM Records as part of the Andy Sheppard-led ...

Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music Albums Of 2022

by Karl Ackermann
December 15, 2022

For good, or bad, the “new normal" can finally be archived, and the club doors reopened to full rooms of unmasked patrons. 2022 marked an informal end to the Pandemic and a rebirth in live performing arts. Like similar periods in history, an unusual burst of creative energy followed isolation. Jazz was no exception; the resilience ...

Pensées Rotatives

By Theo Girard

Label: Discobole Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1993; The 6th and 7th Parts of the Cake; Interlude; La Traversée du Pont Par le Chameau; Roller Coaster; Tom & Jerry; Waiting for Ethiopia on a Bosphorus Bridge; 1993 (radio edit).

Rose Golden Doorways

By Sebastian Rochford

Label: Glitterbeat
Released: 2020
Track listing: Nowhere Nothing; Slow Shrouded Isle; Breath That Sparks; Those Among Us; The Immortal Fire; Cold Regime People Die; Within; The Moon Of Oduglin; Invite Them In.

30YearsFrom

May 15, 2020

Album: 30YearsFrom feat. Seb Rochford
By Theo Girard
Label: Discobole Records
Released: 2017
Duration: 03:07

Pulled By Magnets: Rose Golden Doorways

by Chris May
February 17, 2020

After a momentous start in the mid 2000s with saxophonist Pete Wareham's Acoustic Ladyland and his own band, Polar Bear, drummer Sebastian Rochford's path through British jazz has been distinguished, though not without the odd glitch. The highs have been Himalayan. Perhaps most notably, he played a key role in reeds player Shabaka Hutchings' Sons Of ...

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Kit Downes: Dreamlife of Debris

by Karl Ackermann
October 12, 2019

Kit Downes' ECM debut marked a substantial departure from his earlier recordings with saxophonist Tomas Challenger. Wedding Music (Loop Records, 2013) and Vyamanikal (Slip Imprint, 2016) were rhythmically complex with abstruse melodies that tended toward repetitive patterns and drones. With his ECM title Obsidian (2018), Downes, still on organ, worked in a more solidly constructed environment, ...

Binker and Moses: Alive In The East?

by Chris May
June 22, 2018

Something wonderful is happening in London in summer 2018. A disruptive musical movement, led by an inter-connected community of young musicians, is taking jazz in vibrant new directions and finding enthusiastic new audiences. Hybridisation is the name of game, which reflects London's cultural diversity by absorbing locally created styles such as grime and broken beat within ...