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Unfinished Business

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.

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Perfect Stranger: Unfinished Business

Read "Unfinished Business" reviewed 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 ...

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The Adventures of Mr Pottercakes

Label: Spark Label
Released: 2019
Track listing: The Adventures of Mr Pottercakes; Barcarolle; Badger Cam; The Boy Roy; Hi Wriggly!; The Complete Short Stories; Mind Palace; Vixen.

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Patchwork Jazz Orchestra: The Adventures of Mr Pottercakes

Read "The Adventures of Mr Pottercakes" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Maybe the quickest way to sum-up Patchwork Jazz Orchestra's The Adventures Of Mr Pottercakes would be to appropriate the title of The Who's 1971 compilation album, Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy. For that is exactly what it is and quite a bit more besides. From the very start of the opening title track, there's a reminder ...

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Eden

Label: Spark Label
Released: 2018
Track listing: Solo Intro; Dakar Dance; Thumbs Up; Pentahouve; Chairman Mao; Blues Connotation; Mopti; Solo Outro.

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Lorraine Baker: Eden

Read "Eden" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Lorraine Baker graduated with First Class Honours from South East London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2009. Since then, she's worked with many of the UK's leading jazz musicians and in addition to such sessions she's also freelance drum tutor. Fellow drummer Jeff Williams is quoted describing Baker as having a “unique style" ...

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Unnatural Events

Label: Spark Label
Released: 2017
Track listing: Azura Days; The Seafarer; Unnatural Events; Power Chord Thing; Choro; Inversnaid; Woad; Park Hill.

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Tom Millar Quartet: Unnatural Events

Read "Unnatural  Events" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Born in Sydney, pianist, composer and bandleader Tom Millar grew up in London where he still resides. After reading Music at King's College, Cambridge, he studied Jazz Piano and Composition for a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music and later with Django Bates in Bern, Switzerland. The brisk “Azur Days" opens Unnatural Events ...


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