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Soft Machine Legacy: Burden of Proof
by Dave Wayne
Over the course of three albums released between 1968 and 1970, the British band Soft Machine transformed from one of the trippiest and mind-bendingly inventive rock bands of the psychedelic era into a raging musical torrent of free jazz, thunderous prog rock, and high- concept minimalist-inspired avant-garde stylings. With the dizzying changes in musical direction came ...
Gilad Atzmon And The Orient House Ensemble: Songs Of The Metropolis
by Bruce Lindsay
The metropolis is central to the life of a jazz musician. It's where the work is, where the conservatories are, where the music emerged and developed. Gilad Atzmon, the saxophonist and composer who's been described as the hardest working man in UK jazz, writes that Songs Of The Metropolis is “A pursuit of the sound of ...
Duncan Heining: Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers, and Free Fusioneers - British Jazz, 1960-1975
by Mike Oppenheim
Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers, and Free Fusioneers: British Jazz, 1960-1975 Duncan Heining pp. 486 ISBN: 978-1-84553-405-9 Equinox Publishing Ltd. 2012 Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers, and Free Fusioneers: British Jazz, 1960-1975, by freelance writer Duncan Heining, is a significant addition to the jazz literature. Consisting of fourteen chapters and 450 ...
Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers, and Free Fusioneers: British Jazz, 1960-1975
by Duncan Heining
From Duncan Heining's Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers (Equinox, 2012) and is taken from from Chapter 11, “The Best Things in Life are Free," which discusses free jazz and free improvisation in British jazz. In this section, Heining examines the early work of the avant-garde group AMM and discusses its philosophy and wider influence ...
Nektar: Journey To The Centre Of The Eye
by Glenn Astarita
British progressive-rock band Nektar's epic 1971 Sci-Fi, spacey, psychedelic debut Journey To The Centre Of The Eye, benefits from a finely engineered re-mastering job, along with a vintage bonus disc featuring a live performance of the album. During its day, the band achieved great success outside its native UK and settled in Germany, where this production ...
Bruno Heinen Sextet: Tierkreis
by Bruce Lindsay
Karlheinz Stockhausen's compositions seldom make it into a jazz musician's list of jam session favorites. Pianist Bruno Heinen might just change that with his interpretation of Stockhausen's 1974-75 composition “Tierkreis," twelve pieces based on the signs of the zodiac and written originally for twelve musical boxes. The Bruno Heinen Sextet's debut album, Tierkreis, keeps some of ...
Gunter Baby Sommer: Kommeno - A Threnody
by Duncan Heining
Seventy years ago, the small village of Kommeno in Greece experienced a tragedy from which it has never really recovered. What happened there on August 16, 1943 was not unusual in the context of a war pursued by an enemy determined to stamp out all opposition. Other towns in Greece and its islands, such as Distomon ...
Maurizio Minardi: The Cook, The Clown, The Monk And The Accordionist
by Bruce Lindsay
It's not the snappiest album title ever, but The Cook, The Clown, The Monk And The Accordionist, by the UK-based Italian musician Maurizio Minardi, is one snappy album. This is a standout recording, full of atmospheric music that combines immediately engaging hooks with sweeping narrative and emotional depth.Minardi's My Piano Trio (Belfagor Label, 2012) ...
Meet Bruce Lindsay
by AAJ Staff
I currently live in: Norwich, Norfolk UK. I joined All About Jazz in: 2008 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I thought it might be a good way to blag the occasional free album. Once I started to contribute I realised that it could be much more, that ...
Chris Biscoe Profiles Quartet: Live At Campus West
by Bruce Lindsay
British multi-instrumentalist Chris Biscoe began playing the alto saxophone in 1963, just one year before the death of Eric Dolphy. On Live At Campus West Biscoe and his Profiles Quartet pay tribute to Dolphy's legacy with new arrangements of tunes associated with Dolphy as a composer and player, drawing on music from the American's brief but ...
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