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10th Bray Jazz Festival
by Ian Patterson
10th Bray Jazz Festival Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2009 The small town of Bray in county Wicklow is not the most obvious location for an international jazz festival. Situated twenty kilometers south of the capital Dublin and hugging the coast, it has been battered by the Irish Sea since at least 1300, ...
Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2008
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
When the world economy entered into a tailspin this year, Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner dubbed the event the “Jazz Effect“ given that it emanated from the United States (she was drawing a parallel, for example, to the 1994 “Tequila Effect" that followed a botched currency devaluation in Mexico). I was so happy that a ...
Exploration
By Tommy Smith
Label: Spartacus Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Hoe Down; Chronometry; Gentle Piece; A Night in Tunisia; Cottontail; Now.
Arild Andersen: Live at Belleville
by John Kelman
The general international perception of Norway's jazz scene as “Nordic Cool," is, like most generalizations, inevitably distanced from truth. Atomic, The Core and Motif may possess no shortage of heat, but ECM has undeniably helped define that unmistakable Norwegian aesthetic. One of the “big four," brought to international attention in the early 1970s alongside guitarist Terje ...
The 2008 Hamilton Jazz and Blues Festival
THE Hamilton Jazz and Blues Festival kicked off yesterday (Friday). And top of the bill will be saxophonist Tommy Smith and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra who will play at Hamilton Town House to mark the opening of the three-day event. The concert will feature the music of Joe Williams and the incredible Ray Charles, while ...
The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra featuring Joe Locke: Exploration
by John Kelman
At a time when the oral jazz tradition is in increasing jeopardy, you've got to admire Tommy Smith. Berklee schooled in the 1980s, the Scottish saxophonist had a promising career in the United States. He was a member of Gary Burton's mid-1980s quintet, with the vibraphonist producing Step by Step--the first of four records Smith released ...
Forbidden Fruit
By Tommy Smith
Label: Spartacus Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Spirit of the Fallen Angel; Eve; Tree of Knowledge; Rendezvous in Utopia; One Wish; Within
the Shadow; Forbidden Fruit of Fire.
Evolution
By Tommy Smith
Label: ESC Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Woodstock; Easter Island; Lisbon Earthquake; Siege of Leningrad; Sputnick's Tale; On the Way to Barnard's Star.
Tommy Smith Group: Forbidden Fruit
by John Kelman
You have to respect an artist who turns his back on the possibility of significant US exposure and returns home to his country of origin instead to give back some of what he received growing up. Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith spent a decade in the US, studying at Boston's Berklee School of Music in the early ...
