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Howard Riley: Five Decades in Music
by Maxim Micheliov
Howard Riley gave his performance in Vilnius, Lithuania in September, 2009. It was his first visit to the country in a five-decade career, and one of just a few eastern Europe destinations made at the time, by the British free jazz pianist. The concert was recorded and released in 2010 as the double-disc set, Solo in ...
British Jazz
by Graham L. Flanagan
Stan TraceySenior MomentReSteamed2009 Stan TraceyThe Later WorksReSteamed2010 Various ArtistsThe Flamingo Connection: Great British Modern JazzEmber-Future Noise2009 The United Kingdom's recent political crisis ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Vitoria Suite
by Chris May
Does anyone over there realise how good they are? That's to paraphrase what tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins asked about British pianist Stan Tracey, who led the house band at Ronnie Scott's club in London during the 1960s. “Does anyone here realise how good he is?" was Rollins' actual question (and decades later, the endorsement is still ...
Polar Bear: Raw and Spontaneous
by Bruce Lindsay
During the six or seven years since its formation, British quintet Polar Bear has garnered extensive praise from critics, fans and fellow musicians. Most famously, perhaps, the band was described by music critic Paul Morley as “dream jazz"--high praise, indeed. The band's second album, Held On The Tips Of Fingers (Babel, 2005), was nominated for the ...
Splinters: Split the Difference
by A. Henkin
One imagines that there must be literally thousands of sessions like this, live gigs by groups that only a small handful of people got to enjoy. The record industry being what it is, only the smallest percentage of musical interactions are documented and released. Reel Recordings, focusing its efforts on a particularly fruitful period in British ...
Peter King
by Martin Longley
Even though the English alto saxophonist Peter King has only occasionally appeared in New York, over the decades he's visited often enough to be very gradually establishing a connection with the city's scene. This month, King is part of Made In The UK, a touring package organized and funded by The Arts Council Of England, with ...
Reel Recordings Presents "Splinters" - Long Lost Britjazz Supersession
Reel Recordings is honored to present legendary British saxophonist Trevor Watts with his recording of the all-star collective SPLINTERS. Assembled by drummers John Stevens and Phil Seamen in 1972, SPLINTERS united Stevens and Seamen with tenor giant Tubby Hayes, altoist Trevor Watts, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, pianist Stan Tracey, and bassist Jeff Clyne. Here is ...
Harry Miller's Isipingo: Full Steam Ahead
by Nic Jones
Such is the nature of the reviewing game that some reviews just flow out, taking the perennial word count with it. This is usually because the force of life running through the music under discussion is vibrant enough to make it so, and Full Steam Ahead is a case in point. If the notion ...
Five Piano Duos
by Ken Dryden
Chick Corea & Hiromi Duet Concord 2009 Joachim Kühn & Michael Wollny Live at Schloss Elmau ACT Music 2009 Aki Takase & Alexander Von Schlippenbach Iron Wedding: Piano Duets
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