Results for "Ubuntu Music"

Trio HLK: Anthropometricks

by Neil Duggan
April 8, 2024

Albums featuring standards are fairly common. Trio HLK start with this approach and then bend and invert it to create their own musical dialect. All seven compositions on Anthropometricks use sections of jazz standards as their base. The trio then put these ingredients through their version of a musical blender to create something unique. As pianist ...

Everyday Hero

April 1, 2024

Album: For The Dreamers
By Simon Lasky
Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Duration: 06:41

It’s The Cops

February 14, 2024

Album: Until Now
By Ron Magril
Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2022
Duration: 6:34

Martin Sjöstedt & Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: Horizon

by Neil Duggan
February 13, 2024

The Stockholm Jazz Orchestra has been together since 1984--40 years at this writing. That is quite an achievement. especially in an age where large ensembles make little financial sense. In 1986, Bob Brookmeyer joined the band as a guest, eventually leading to his compositions featuring on their debut album, Dreams (Dragon, 1988). Subsequently, they have played ...

Corrie Dick: Sun Swells

by Geannine Reid
January 28, 2024

Corrie Dick is a multi-instrumentalist who has recorded on drums, piano, vocals, synth, guitar, and trumpet. As a composer, Dick is known for his dynamism, his melodic slant, and his playfully subversive melding of genres. Presenting his sonically inventive drumming, which has a rhythmic epicenter of a new era of innovative British jazz, is Dick's release ...

The Qow Trio: The Hold Up

by Neil Duggan
January 22, 2024

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 ...

Rob Cope

Rob is a freelance teacher and performer. Rob studied at Chetham’s School of Music with James Muirhead (1998-2006). He then studied at Royal Northern College of Music (2006-2010) before studying for a Masters in Music Performance and Royal Academy of Music (2010-2012). Rob teaches privately as well as at being a visiting music teacher at Shrewsbury School. He performs in Matt Robert’s Bigish Band, Andy Scott’s Group S and contemporary classical ensemble, SoundSPARK. He has appeared with the Halle and the English Symphony Orchestras as well as with the Matthew Herbert Big Band

Rob Cope: Gemini

by Neil Duggan
January 9, 2024

The number two features prominently in the concept behind this album. The album is called Gemini, meaning twins or two. It features two saxophones, it is Rob Cope's second album as leader and combines two existing duos. The first of those duos features the soprano saxophone and bass clarinet of Cope together with the ...

Seven Ages Of Man

By Paul Mottram

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Origins; Gestation; Infant; Schoolboy; Lover; Soldier; Judge; Pantaloon; Old Age.

View from Above

By Tristan Banks

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2023