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Sax Strike: The Sound of Jazz without Saxophones

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 25, 2019

Possibly, more than any other instrument, the saxophone defines the sound of jazz. Most jazz combos have at least one saxophonist on the front--and when you see that saxophone, you know it's going to be doing a LOT of soloing, even if the bandleader or composer plays another instrument. But what happens to the shape and ...

Album

The Shakedown

By Tenderlonious

Label: 22a
Released: 2018
Track listing: Expansions; Yussef’s Groove; Togo; SV Interlude; The Shakedown; Maria; You Decide; SV Disco; Red Sky At Night.

Article: Album Review

Moses Boyd: Displaced Diaspora

Read "Displaced Diaspora" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 19, 2018

The pre-release anticipation surrounding drummer and producer Moses Boyd's Displaced Diaspora was a sure sign that the cultural revolution that has reset London's jazz world over the last three years has bedded itself firmly into the architecture. Not because the album is a newly recorded set--but because it is not. The disc is a selection of ...

Article: Album Review

Binker and Moses: Alive In The East?

Read "Alive In The East?" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 22, 2018

Something wonderful is happening in London in summer 2018. A disruptive musical movement, led by an inter-connected community of young musicians, is taking jazz in vibrant new directions and finding enthusiastic new audiences. Hybridisation is the name of game, which reflects London's cultural diversity by absorbing locally created styles such as grime and broken beat within ...

Article: Album Review

Tenderlonious featuring The 22archestra: The Shakedown

Read "The Shakedown" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
May 2, 2018

In Britain, the incidence of self-taught jazz musicians has declined dramatically over recent decades. Jazz-studies programmes have mushroomed in colleges and more and more young players have been signing up to them. Successful stylists of earlier eras, who may have studied informally with an older musician but who learnt most of their art on the bandstand, ...