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Article: Album Review

Michael Janisch: Paradigm Shift

Read "Paradigm Shift" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey

This impressive double album recorded live over two nights in 2011 at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London is Michael Janisch's follow-up to his 2010 debut album Purpose Built. The release has been some four years in gestation for the U.S. born, Berklee educated and now UK-based bassist and composer. Additional post-production electronics and effects were introduced ...

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Article: Live Review

Andy Sheppard Quartet At The Mac

Read "Andy Sheppard Quartet At The Mac" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Andy Sheppard Quartet The Mac Belfast, N. Ireland October 9, 2015 Three years on from his Belfast Festival performance with Trio Libero, saxophonist Andy Sheppard returned to the Northern Irish capital with his new quartet comprised of that trio plus Norwegian guitarist/sound sculptor Eivind Aarset. That the gig went ahead ...

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Article: Album Review

David Patrick Octet: The Rite Of Spring

Read "The Rite Of Spring" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Igor Stravinsky's “The Rite Of Spring," written for the Ballets Russe, premiered in Paris on 29 May 1913. Puccini called it “the creation of a madman": it seems to have held a fascination for jazz musicians ever since it appeared. Scottish pianist David Patrick is the latest jazz musician to create a version--a “re-adaptation" as he ...

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Article: Album Review

Howard Riley: Discussions

Read "Discussions" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey

The reissue on CD of Howard Riley's Discussions is to be welcomed, since it only ever saw a highly limited pressing of 99 copies when first released on the Opportunity label in 1967. It is also an important historical artefact because it provides a tangible clue as to how Riley progressed, via the foresight of David ...

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Article: Book Review

Mick Rock: The Rise of David Bowie, 1972–1973

Read "Mick Rock: The Rise of David Bowie, 1972–1973" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

The Rise of David Bowie, 1972--1973 Mick Rock 310 Pages ISBN: 978-3-8365-4905-9 Taschen 2015 For many years, photographer Mick Rock has been capturing the passion and the energy of some of most distinguished rock and roll artists. Often referred to as the “man who shot the '70s" he has ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Hewson Trio: Treehouse

Read "Treehouse" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Treehouse, album number two from the young British pianist Tom Hewson, finds him working in a trio (which is also known as Treehouse) alongside two more of the brightest young players on the UK jazz scene--bassist Calum Gourlay and vibes player Lewis Wright. It's a lyrical and engaging collection--mostly of Hewson's own compositions--with the relatively rare ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Spedding: Songs Without Words

Read "Songs Without Words" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey

All five musicians on this retrieved-from-the-vaults archival release were at various times alumni of bands or recordings directed by British veteran jazz composer Mike Westbrook. Songs Without Words was produced at the end of 1969 under the aegis of Peter Eden (who produced several early Westbrook records for the Deram label), on the condition, imposed by ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

BGO Records: Excellence in Jazz Reissues

Read "BGO Records: Excellence in Jazz Reissues" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

In the digital age we live in, there is no doubt that the business of reissuing music is booming. It has never been easier to get music, old and new, in digital or physical form. However, one thing is to re-release a record; another thing is to do it the right way. BGO Records, run by ...

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Article: Album Review

Keith Rowe and John Tilbury: Enough still not to know

Read "Enough still not to know" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

It was back in late 2011 that the last collaboration between Keith Rowe and John Tilbury was issued, E.E. Tension and Circumstance (Potlatch, 2011), having been recorded live in Paris in December 2010. As that was their second duo recording, following the double CD Duos for Doris (Erstwhile, 2003), and they had not played together since ...

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Article: Live Review

King Crimson at Usher Hall

Read "King Crimson at Usher Hall" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

King Crimson Usher Hall Edinburgh, Scotland September 18, 2015 It's been thirty-three years since King Crimson last toured the UK and you have to go back to 1973 to find the last occasion Robert Fripp's storied band played Scotland. That's a long gap, whatever way you look at it; malt whiskies ...


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