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48% Of UK Adults Listen to Online Radio
48% of adults in the United Kingdom tune in to audio or radio from an online source on a weekly basis, making for a national audience of approximately 25 million, according to recent market research from AudenceNet. The survey of 3,000 UK adults (aged 15 and over) found that the weekly reach of online audio and ...
Dave Holland Joins Royal Academy Of Music
The Royal Academy of Music is delighted to announce the appointment of jazz legend Dave Holland to its illustrious roster of of teachers. Dave Holland said: “I'm very happy to have been invited by the Royal Acadamy of Music to be their International Jazz Artist in Residence for the next two years. Spending some extended time ...
Roger Beaujolais Quartet: Mind The Gap
by Bruce Lindsay
Mind The Gap might have been named for the warning dished out thousands of times a day on the London underground, but the rather wonderful music that emanates from the Roger Beaujolais Quartet is better suited as a soundtrack to late night drives along glamorous coastal highways.Vibraphonist Beaujolais has been an integral part of ...
Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms
by John Sharpe
Three stalwarts of the London Improvisers Orchestra come together on the debut outing of the genre-mashing Vole. When playing credits number saxophone iconoclasts Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker and Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Simon Fell and pianist Alexander Hawkins, then energy and imagination can be almost guaranteed. What's fascinating is how they align improv with noise, heavy metal ...
Roy Harper: Recorded Live in Concert at Metropolis Studios, London
by Ian Patterson
For much of a career that began on the London folk scene in the mid-1960s, singer/songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper has been an underground cult figure and symbol of the counterculture, playing the length and breadth of England to fiercely loyal fans. Harper's best gigs have the intimacy of a confessional, the passion of a Speaker's ...
Ray Russell: Now, More Than Ever
by Ian Patterson
English guitarist/composer Ray Russell has flown under the radar for most of his 45-year career, dividing his energies between his own projects, sessions for some of the biggest names in popular music and composing award-winning music for television and film. Russell's wide-ranging musical interests have meant that his own recordings have sometimes been separated by long ...
Jeff Williams: The Listener
by Dan Bilawsky
Drummer Jeff Williams spent the first part of his career building a name for himself as a supporting player, laying down the rhythmic law for Lookout Farm and serving as sideman to the jazz stars, but these days he's making waves as a leader. He turned plenty of heads with Another Time (Whirlwind Recordings Ltd., 2011), ...
Moss Project: What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?
by Bruce Lindsay
As Bo Diddley so wisely stated, “You can't judge a book by looking at the cover." Moss Project's What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes? may look like a book, and a very beautiful one at that. It may feel like a book--it may even smell like a book. But it's a CD. Actually, ...
Moss Project: What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?
by Jakob Baekgaard
The idea of creating a gesamtkunstwerk, a synthesis of the arts, is not something new. Classical composer Richard Wagner envisioned his operas as a meeting between music, literature and the visual expression of painting; since Wagner, many artists have tried to unite the different artistic languages into a total work of art. While ...
The Dixie Ticklers: Standing Pat
by Chris Mosey
The revival of traditional jazz in Britain in the 1950s began in a blaze of idealism. In the following decade, it degenerated into an undignified scramble for commercial success. The Dixie Ticklers, a London-based sextet, want nothing to do with Trad. Their principal influences might be Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, Jelly Roll Morton ...
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