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Unfinished Business
By Chris Sansom
Label: Spark Label
Released: 2024
Track listing: Life And Times (Of A Perfect Stranger) (1. Formative Years. 2. Ankle Deep In Dust. 3. Midlife Crisis. 4. It's Weird Being The Same Age As Old People.); Lugubrious Boots; Ludwig's Van.
Perfect Stranger: Unfinished Business
by Neil Duggan
There cannot be too many artists who release music 50 years after composing it. In 1974, Chris Sansom wrote six tracks, the highlight being a four-movement piece, echoing the structure of a classical symphony but taking influences from the progressive rock of the time to create something outside conventional jazz. He formed a band to play ...
Tony Haynes 1941 - 2024
by Chris May
It is with great sadness that All About Jazz reports the passing of Tony Haynes, the founder and for over 40 years the creative director of London's Grand Union Orchestra (GUO). Haynes left us on 17 September 2024. Under his visionary leadership, GUO did much to take forward the idea of jazz as a multi-cultural artform, ...
Grand Union Orchestra: Made By Human Hands
by Chris May
Grand Union Orchestra, which has mentored many young London jazz musicians over four decades, is approximately aligned with the grassroots organisations Tomorrow's Warriors and Kinetika Bloco. The longest established of the trio, Grand Union took wing in 1982, Tomorrow's Warriors in 1991, Kinetika Bloco in 2000. Made By Human Hands is a greatest hits compilation celebrating ...
Clare Foster: Kumbhaka
by Thomas Fletcher
Clare Foster is a multi-talented musician who sings, composes and, along the way, educates. Born in England, she learnt the clarinet and began listening to jazz at the age of five courtesy of her father and recently said in an interview, “he still doesn't believe there's any jazz after 1932!" Foster's inspiration for this ...
