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The Hold Up

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: High Noon; The Hold Up; I Gotta Grape Drink; The Starcrossed Lovers; Along Came John; Hip Strut; Our Man Higgins; Bastard Gentlemen; Bright Mississippi; Hard Times Come Again No More; Straight Ahead; I'm An Old Qowhand.

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Homage To Caledonia

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2024
Track listing: What Is The truth?; Conundrums; Aura Best; Piano solo; Introduction / Gathering; March; Battle; Aftermath; Dizzy's Blues (including St. Thomas).

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What Was Happening

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD1: Jubiliation: Jubilation; Nomad; What's Happening; Spider. Bonus tracks: Softly As In A Morning Sunrise; You Don't Know What Love Is; Billie's Bounce. CD2: Dreams Are Free: Dreams Are Free; Love Dance; Aura; Conundrum; What Is The Truth; Ba-loos. Bonus tracks: Rhythm-a-ning; In A Sentimental Mood; Now's The Time; My Melancholy Baby.

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Article: Album Review

Bobby Wellins Sextet: Homage To Caledonia

Read "Homage To Caledonia" reviewed by Jack Kenny


Bobby Wellins said about the composition of “The Culloden Moor Suite:" “It was something that came to me after reading John Prebble's book about the Battle of Culloden and the way he described events leading up to it and the dreadful aftermath... I wanted to capture, not just the terrible sadness that must have resulted from ...

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Article: Album Review

Bobby Wellins Quartet: What Was Happening

Read "What Was Happening" reviewed by Chris May


In 1965 tenor saxophonist Bobby Wellins made an indelible mark on jazz history with his contribution to pianist Stan Tracey's Jazz Suite Inspired By Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (Columbia). The exquisite “Starless And Bible Black" is the most frequently cited track (check the YouTube below) and is indicative of the album's overall beauty. For a ...

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The Qow Trio: The Hold Up

Read "The Hold Up" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Anyone whose musical taste yearns for the type of '50s and '60s sounds of artists such as Sonny Rollins, Jackie Mclean and Lee Morgan, may find The Hold Up is just what they seek. This is the second album from the Qow Trio (pronounced Cow). Taking their name from a composition on Dewey Redman's album, Coincide ...

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The Complete Hopbine '69

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD1: For Members Only; Off The Wagon; Where Am I Going?; What Is This Thing Called Love. CD2: Mainly For The Don; For Heaven’s Sake; Vierd Blues; Walkin’.

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Tubby Hayes Quartet: The Complete Hopbine '69

Read "The Complete Hopbine '69" reviewed by Chris May


Of all the many talented jazz musicians who blazed trails in Britain in the late 1950s and 1960s, tenor saxophonist Tubby Hayes in 2022 stands among the tallest. Hayes, too, is one of a handful of British musicians of his generation who have been practically deified by some of the emergent young players who are currently ...

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Joe Harriott: Chronology: Live 1968 - 69

Read "Chronology:  Live 1968 - 69" reviewed by Chris May


One of not-for-profit archive label Jazz In Britain's first releases in early 2020--then only on vinyl, but in summer 2021 reissued on CD—the Jamaican-born alto saxophonist and composer Joe Harriott's Chronology Live 1968—69 is also of interest for the spotlight it throws on another player who moved from his homeland to London in the 1950s, the ...


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