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Stan Sulzmann

Stan Sulzmann is without question one of the most highly respected musicians in the UK today, admired by musicians and audiences for his instantly recognisable sound, and boundless creative imagination, and is a source of inspiration to many of Britain's emerging young musicians. Sulzmann's career stretches back to the 60's, when as part of a uniquely talented crop of British musicians, he played with Graham Collier, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Gordon Beck, as well as leading many groups of his own. Since that time Stan has been at the forefront of European contemporary jazz, and his talents have been sought by a host of discerning musicians, including Gil Evans, Mike Gibbs, Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland and Michael Brecker

NYOS Jazz Orchestra Featuring Yazz Ahmed @ The MAC

by Ian Patterson
July 30, 2019

NYOS Jazz Orchestra Featuring Yazz Ahmed The MAC Belfast, N. Ireland July 22 , 2019 It was a pretty decent crowd for a Monday night. An older crowd, drawn to big-band jazz. Few, it seemed, were Belfast jazz gig regulars, at least, not the usual suspects who pitch up to ...

Daryl Runswick / Tony Hymas: Runswick Hymas Big Bands 1974-78

by Roger Farbey
June 23, 2019

British bassist, composer and conductor Daryl Runswick was born in 1946 and in 2019 is retired. His archival recordings have had something of a renaissance, at least as far as CD releases are concerned. Following in the wake of 2017's double album of previously unreleased tracks entitled Daryl Runswick: The Jazz Years and 2018's live quartet ...

Alessandro Galati: Wheeler Variations

by Neri Pollastri
May 15, 2018

Il trombettista e compositore canadese Kenny Wheeler, scomparso nel 2014, è stato uno dei musicisti più importanti del jazz europeo --ha infatti vissuto in Inghilterra fin dal 1952, operando principalmente nel vecchio continente --e ha avuto una grande influenza sullo sviluppo di questa musica anche nel nostro paese. Tra i musicisti italiani che hanno collaborato con ...

Martin Pyne: Behind The Mist

by Bruce Lindsay
March 30, 2017

Ten solo vibraphone improvisations, recorded in single takes with occasional electronic processing on three tracks, form the content of Martin Pyne's Behind The Mist. Pyne creates cool, spacious, crystalline sounds--music that seems to emerge organically from its inspirations. Pyne is a member of Busnoys, has accompanied silent films and has worked with jazz and ...

Julie Tippetts: Didn't You Used To Be Julie Driscoll?

by Duncan Heining
December 7, 2016

The respect in which Julie Tippetts is held by her fellow musicians and fans is truly heartening--and truly deserved. Back in the late sixties, then Julie Driscoll, she gave up a very different career trajectory in music, one that had begun with Steampacket and continued with Brian Auger & The Trinity, to follow a journey characterised ...

Flying Machines: Flying Machines

by Roger Farbey
August 29, 2016

Flying Machines is the eponymous debut album by a group led by British guitarist Alex Munk whose late father Roger Munk was the inspiration for the project. Munk Senior was a leading figure in the design and construction of modern airships, otherwise known as Hybrid Air Vehicles. Munk Junior graduated in 2009 from Leeds College of ...

Francis Monkman: The Long Good Friday OST

by Roger Farbey
July 1, 2016

Not merely one of the best films of the 1970s, The Long Good Friday was arguably one of the best and most exciting British movies of the twentieth century. Aside from the acting, in which its stars, Bob Hoskins, Eddie Constantine, and Helen Mirren gave stellar performances, the soundtrack by ex-Curved Air keyboardist Francis Monkman was ...

Alessandro Galati Sextet - The Wheeler Variations

by Neri Pollastri
December 2, 2015

Corte delle Sculture Prato 17.08.15 Firmato dal pianista Alessandro Galati, che ce ne parlava già in un'intervista di qualche tempo fa, The Wheeler Variations nasce poco dopo la scomparsa del grande trombettista canadese Kenny Wheeler, come memoria e omaggio ad opera di musicisti che lo avevano conosciuto e apprezzato lavorandovi a ...

Liam Noble: A Room Somewhere

by Bruce Lindsay
May 13, 2015

A Room Somewhere is Liam Noble's second solo album: a mix of standards and improvised pieces that showcases this fine pianist's talents to excellent effect. Occasionally, critics refer to second albums as “difficult." The assumption is that the first album draws inspiration from 20 years of the artist's life, the second draws on one ...