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Empirical: Connection
by Glenn Astarita
This is a young and intensely hip quartet who received a MOBO (Music of Black Origin) award in 2010 for Best Jazz Act in the UK, yet Connection is the musicians inaugural effort for USA-based Cuneiform Records. Similarities to the output of fellow countrymen, saxophonist Django Bates and Led Bib may be in order, primarily due ...
Donna Lewis With UK Release Of "Brand New Day" Featuring Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson and Dave King - Produced By David Torn - Out June 17, 2016 + UK Tour
Brand New Day is available for Pre-Order. “I Love You Always Forever" was such a huge hit for the multi-platinum artist Donna Lewis; a #1 chart hit / dance-pop classic for which people around the globe still have boundless affection—the 1996 song will always be the one for which many fans know her. But the Welsh ...
1st International Online Jazz Contest Open To Musicians Of Every Age - Prize fund € 7,000
7 Virtual Jazz Club begins search for undiscovered jazz talents from all walks of life. A € 4,000 prize will be awarded to the talented winner The 7 Virtual Jazz Club has began a worldwide search for emerging musical talent from all ages and backgrounds. The winner will be rewarded with a € 4,000 prize. Second ...
Dan Whieldon Trio: Positive Changes
by Bruce Lindsay
Pianist Dan Whieldon hails from Manchester and has been active in the North West of England's jazz scene for the last decade. Positive Changes is his debut release as leader, made not with fellow Mancunians but with players from Belgium--where he studied and where the album was made--and Holland. Bill Evans is an acknowledged inspiration and ...
Anthony Phillips: Wise After The Event - Deluxe Edition
by Glenn Astarita
A founding member of the time-honored progressive rock band Genesis, guitarist Anthony Phillips suffered from stage fright and followed his physicians' advice by departing the group in 1970 after Trespass was released. In hindsight, the guitarist may have lost out on some lucrative paychecks, but since the golden days of prog he's amassed an impressive discography ...
Tim Garland: One
by Roger Farbey
Tim Garland is one of the U.K's most talented reedsmen. He's recorded several albums with Chick Corea including Originations and The Vigil plus orchestral works, The Mystery and The Continents. With virtuoso percussionist Bill Bruford, he recorded Earthworks Underground Orchestra. He's also recorded numerous albums under his own name and with Llamas and Acoustic Triangle. This ...
Waclaw Zimpel: How The Music Of The World Influences Me
by Nick Davies
Waclaw Zimpel is a Polish clarinetist and composer who is recognised both nationally and internationally. His compositions have received many positive reviews in the press ("The Polish composer and clarinetist Waclaw Zimpel is a musical chameleon" --Stephen Heyman, New York Times) and he has been the recipient of numerous awards such as City of Poznań Artist ...
Preston Glasgow Lowe: Preston Glasgow Lowe
by Roger Farbey
Don't let the triple-moniker business-like name fool you, these ain't no suits and this is an excellent start for PGL's eponymous debut album. A flurry of repeated shimmering phrases introduces “Colour Possesses" which shortly after its brief guitar opening evolves into multi-tracking embellished with programmed synthesizer, leading to a resonance of Robert Fripp and the League ...
New Order: Complete Music
by Nenad Georgievski
For a band of magnitude and history like New Order's the lines between “indie," “dance" and “mainstream" always get blurred. Somehow the band has always transcended these labels ever since it rose from the rubble of the much-beloved band Joy Division. At the start of the '80s the band grew more inspired and fascinated by popular ...
Jason Rebello: Held
by Roger Farbey
As a teenage prodigy in 1988, Jason Rebello received the Most Promising Newcomer of the Year award in The Wire magazine. By the time he reached the tender age of 21, his debut album A Clearer View was produced by none other than Wayne Shorter; not a bad start to a burgeoning career. A graduate of ...
