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News: Recording

Troyka To Release Troy-kestra Big Band Live Album In December

October 29, 2013

UK Release Date: 2 December 2013 Label: Impossible Ark Launch Gig: 23 November 2013, Purcell Room as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival Strap yourselves in as UK jazz powerhouse Troyka combine with an incredible big band under the direction of Nick Smart to form Troykestra. The result is a compelling ...

Article: Album Review

Kaz Simmons: Signs

by Bruce Lindsay
October 27, 2013

It's album number four from London-based singer and songwriter Kaz Simmons. It's called Signs. It deftly explores the fertile ground that encompasses jazz, folk and the quirkier end of '70s British psych-rock--and it's a joy. Simmons has slimmed down her band for Signs--a small but perfectly formed quartet share the musical honors, compared to ...

News: Event

Emil Viklicky "The Janacek Of Jazz" Plays Rare London Gig At Spice Of Life October 31

October 25, 2013

Czech jazz pianist Emil Viklicky returns to the UK to play a rare, one-off gig at the Spice of Life, in Soho, London on Thursday, October 31st. Appearing in his favorite setting of a trio, Viklicky is joined by double bassist Petre Dvorsky and drummer Tomas Hobzek. Often described as “the Janacek of jazz”, Viklicky has ...

Article: Live Review

PianOrquestra at Belfast Festival 2013

by Ian Patterson
October 23, 2013

PianOrquestra Sonic Arts Research Centre Belfast Festival Belfast, N. Ireland October 20, 2013 Composer John Cage would have been like a little kid in a sweetie shop; a serious little kid perhaps, but one at play nonetheless, because the Sonic Arts Research Centre of the Queens University Belfast is ...

Article: Album Review

Tony Oxley: A Birthday Tribute--75 Years

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by John Eyles
October 23, 2013

As its title indicates, this album was released to mark the occasion of drummer Tony Oxley's seventy-fifth birthday (which occurred on June 15 2013.) Fittingly, it is released on Incus, the ground-breaking label that Oxley established in 1970 with Derek Bailey and Evan Parker, frequently cited as “the first independent musician-run record label in Britain" (just ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Asaf Sirkis Trio: Shepherd's Stories

by John Kelman
October 22, 2013

It's getting to the point where it's almost impossible to pigeonhole an artist into any one category---and that can't be anything but a good thing. Sure, some people like to think of the artists they love as jazz, rock or classical musicians, but the truth is that, more and more, musicians simply want to be thought ...

Article: Album Review

Arun Ghosh: A South Asian Suite

Read "A South Asian Suite" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
October 22, 2013

One second? No. Five seconds? Getting there. Ten? Almost. Fourteen seconds. That's how long it takes. Fourteen seconds into “The Gypsies Of Rajasthan," and the first of A South Asian Suite's irresistibly danceable grooves jumps out of the speakers. The idea that jazz is a music for dancing may sometimes seem a rather alien notion these ...

Article: Rethinking Jazz Cultures

Tony Whyton: What Does Jazz Do For You?

by Ian Patterson
October 21, 2013

[The first installment of interviews with leading jazz academics as part of All About Jazz's new Rethinking Jazz Cultures series begins with Professor Tony Whyton, Director of the Salford Music Research Centre at the University of Salford.] Wherever you stand on what constitutes jazz music, jazz history and its great historical figures/landmark recordings, Tony ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Launches Rethinking Jazz Cultures - A Series Of Interviews With Jazz's Leading Thinkers

October 20, 2013

All About Jazz presents a new column under the banner Rethinking Jazz Cultures—a monthly series of interviews by Ian Patterson with some of the leading thinkers in jazz today. Though New Jazz Studies is in fact 25-years old, there is a burgeoning growth in academic jazz research on a global level. The Rethinking Jazz Cultures monthly ...

Article: Extended Analysis

The Road to Red

by John Kelman
October 20, 2013

Another massive King Crimson box, hot on the heels of the 15-disc, 40th Anniversary Series Larks' Tongues in Aspic: The Complete Recordings (DGM Live, 2012), which brought new meaning to the word heavy by collecting every known note--ranging from low to hi-fi--played by the then newly forged, five-piece edition of a group that, in addition to ...