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Alexander Hawkins: Alexander Hawkins Trio
by John Sharpe
For the inaugural release on his own imprint, pianist Alexander Hawkins for the first time tackles the classic piano trio. Hawkins has already convinced in an increasing variety of formats, ranging from his customary ensemble, heard in its latest incarnation on Step Wide, Step Deep (Babel, 2014) to chamber nonet (broadcast on BBC Radio 3, but ...
Juliet Kelly: Spellbound Stories
by Bruce Lindsay
Eleven songs, all inspired by favorite novels, form Spellbound Stories, vocalist and songwriter Juliet Kelly's fourth album. It's a stylistically disparate collection, centered on Kelly's light and welcoming vocal. Exactly which novels gave Kelly her inspiration isn't made clear by the songs (except for one) or the CD notes, so the literary listener might ...
Fred Frith, Barry Guy: Backscatter Bright Blue
by Vic Albani
Con la doverosa e ormai classica intraprendenza, l'intelligente Intakt elvetica ha chiamato due universi musicali distanti fra loro come quelli di Fred Frith e di Barry Guy nello studio di Willy Strehler per quella che potremmo sì definire una session d'improvvisazione ma che porta con sé anche un gradiente di creatività semplicemente straordinario. Quando c'è di ...
The Greg Foat Group: The Dancers at the End of Time
by Roger Farbey
This is the fourth album by pianist/organist/composer Greg Foat and has been released both on CD and LP (this review concerns the latter format) and is unquestionably his most accomplished and satisfying to date. The stately strains of a church organ (a real one, since this album was recorded in a church), herald the ...
Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party
by John Eyles
The release of the compilation album Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 (Soundway Records, 2015) threw light on the often-neglected role that the London scene of the fifties and sixties played in the development of Highlife and Afrobeat music, during a time before the term “World Music" had ...
Learning to Play Jazz
by Paul Abrahams
With “Musings of a Jazz Piano Teacher" Paul Abrahams addresses a range of topics that can arise from working as a jazz piano teacher, reflecting on the day to day issues and challenges of teaching improvisation to students from various musical backgrounds and levels of ability. Learning to play jazz Have you ...
Kit Downes: Tricko
by Bruce Lindsay
Tricko pairs composer and keyboard player Kit Downes with cellist Lucy Railton on a set of Downes' compositions. It's a delightful pairing, creating distinctive tunes inspired by minimalism, mutability and a few of the mysteries of the world. Downes and Railton met when they were studying at London's Royal Academy Of Music. Downes has ...
Billy Jenkins: Death, Ritual & Resonation: Eight Improvised Studies On Low Strung Guitar
by Roger Farbey
Having semi-retired from the music business in 2008 in favour of conducting Humanist (non-religious) funerals, Billy Jenkins returned to recording in 2014, releasing the highly acclaimed solo album Semi-Detached Suburban Home (Music For Low Strung Guitar). So its follow-up Death, Ritual & Resonation: Eight improvised studies on low strung guitar follows similar lines and compared to ...
Filomena Campus, Giorgio Serci: Scaramouche
by Alberto Bazzurro
Filomena Campus, cantante sarda in bilico fra jazz ed eredità popolare, trasferitasi a Londra nel 2001 e collaboratrice fra gli altri di Evan Parker, Paolo Fresu e Antonello Salis, e il chitarrista Giorgio Serci, sardo a sua volta, firmano un album assai composito forte di nove pagine originali, tutte a firma di Cerci per la parte ...
Beats & Pieces Big Band: All In
by Bruce Lindsay
While almost every sensible thought screams “Don't Do It!" for good economic and logistical reasons, there are still plenty of jazz musicians for whom the big band is an ideal--and an attainable one at that. Manchester's Beats & Pieces Big Band is a fine example--the name may or may not be a nod to Manchester's '60s ...
