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Live From Coventry & Kings Heath: Trembling Bells, Willie Watson, Hailu Mergia & The Destroyers
by Martin Longley
Trembling Bells The Tin & The Kitchen Garden Café August 3 & 5, 2015 It's sometimes instructive, or even enjoyable, to catch a combo twice during their tour. Perhaps this might lead to what seems like a repeat showing, and on other occasions there is an insight into wildly ...
Spanish Jazz Guitar Master Biel Ballester Puts His Balls On The Line! Have A Song Composed Just For You!
All About Jazz has previously reported Le QuecumBar's crowd-funding plight, and here’s an update with some exciting news but support is still needed—time limited for responses. The (sweet and) lowdown of our crowdfunding efforts: Already we’ve raised over £11,000! Great support has been received from All About Jazz readers but we’ve got two weeks to raise ...
Birmingham Jazz Orchestra: Burns
by Bruce Lindsay
The Birmingham Jazz Orchestra--that's Birmingham, England--formed in the fall of 2014, just a few months before recording Burns, its debut album of tunes written by director/conductor Sean Gibbs. The maturity of the writing and playing, the strength of the sections and the verve of the solos belies the inexperience of the ensemble--this is a strong first ...
John Wetton and the Les Paul Trio: New York Minute
by Glenn Astarita
A elite member of progressive rock super-groups King Crimson, UK and the pop rock platinum selling band Asia , bassist, vocalist John Wetton engages the pop standards route, recorded live at New York City's prominent jazz venue, The Iridium. In the album notes Wetton divulges his love for midtown Manhattan, hearkening back to his days with ...
Live From Birmingham: The Sonics, Otis Gibbs, George Huxley & John Altman
by Martin Longley
The Sonics The Institute July 28, 2015 The Sonics virtually created the garage band sound, back in the mid-1960s, taking the foundations of rhythm'n'blues and forcing a leap towards further extremity, continuing the mission begun by Link Wray, but using warped pop song structures instead of instrumental grinding. Surely ...
Emily Francis Trio: The Absent
by Roger Farbey
The funky “Hops 'n' Scotch" kicks off this lively set, with keyboardist Francis employing Fender Rhodes and synths in Herbie Hancock mode. Languid acoustic piano opens “Winnebago" which soon transmutes into an up-tempo trio number with a flavour of Chick Corea's Iberian influence clearly detectable. The more contemplative “Redshift" benefits from Francis' ability to transition seamlessly ...
The Sirkis/Bialas International Quartet: Come to Me
by Angelo Leonardi
È una musica avvincente e ricercata quella che si ascolta in Come to Me: atmosfere intime e raccolte che si confrontano con sequenze incisive, sia vocali che strumentali. Protagonista è un quartetto al suo debutto, guidato dalla cantante polacca Sylwia Bialas e dal batterista israeliano Asaf Sirkis. La prima risiede in Germania mentre Sirkis vive in ...
Overwhelmed With Support From All About Jazz Readers
London’s premier Hot Club, Le QuecumBar, famed world over for being the Mecca of Gypsy Jazz launched its Kickstarter crowd-funding at the beginning of this week. The projects “dashboard" shows where links have been referred from, and Le QuecumBar has been overwhelmed with support from All About Jazz readers. The crowdfunding project was established because of ...
Stop trying to swing
by Paul Abrahams
Dave Brubeck tells the story that Miles Davis approached him at the end of a gig and murmured in his ear “You're the only person in this group that swings." Had Brubeck replied: “What, exactly, do you mean by swing?" I suspect he would have been given short shrift. But of course both musicians had an ...
Another Timbre reaches its century in top form
by John Eyles
Another Timbre's three latest releases bring up a significant landmark in the label's brief history. Since the label released its first CD in the autumn of 2007, it has now put out over 100 discs—at a rate of more than one a month. Lest anyone wishes to point out that the latest release—the James Saunders disc, ...
