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Article: Scumbles

John Kelly, musician, actor, performer

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by Sammy Stein

John Kelly is a musician who, with his band 'Rockinpaddy' performs in pubs and clubs around the London area. He is also an actor, campaigner for disability rights and in grave danger of becoming something of a national treasure. He is a freelance performer with Graeae Theatre Company, has performed on major stages around the globe ...

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Article: Year in Review

Bruce Lindsay's Favorite Albums Of 2014

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by Bruce Lindsay

Christmas Comes But Once A Year, And When It Does It Brings... Lists. Lots of lists. Here's another. A quick glance at this particular list makes it clear that this has been, for me, a singers' year. Let me make it clear from the off--this isn't my list of the best vocal albums I've ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Mark Holub e il Questionario di Proust

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by AAJ Staff

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Mark Holub: Mi è difficile guardarla dall'esterno, spero si percepisca una forte componente di gioia nel fare musica. AAJ La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. M.H. Mi piacciono i musicisti che affrontano ogni situazione con la ...

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Article: Album Review

Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton: Live at Maya Recordings Festival

Read "Live at Maya Recordings Festival" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

Ci sono musicisti che indagano per tutta la loro vicenda artistica la stessa musica. Lo fanno con assoluta convinzione, concentrazione sugli obiettivi (estetici, tecnici, espressivi), con ampia varietà di dettagli e comunque all'interno di un quadro globale di sviluppo dove non mancano le sorprese, le digressioni, le smentite seppur coerenti. Forse i grandi artisti hanno sempre ...

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Article: Album Review

Akira Sakata, Giovanni Di Domenico, John Edwards, Steve Noble: Live at Cafe Oto

Read "Live at Cafe Oto" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Recorded in concert at London's Cafe Oto in January 2014, this album features the kind of cosmopolitan ensemble in which the venue specialises. It brings together veteran Japanese reedsman Akira Sataka and Spanish pianist Giovanni Di Domenico with London's own John Edwards and Steve Noble. The latter pair have virtually become the house bassist and drummer ...

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Article: Album Review

Alan Davey: Al Chemical's Lysergic Orchestra Vol. 2

Read "Al Chemical's Lysergic Orchestra Vol. 2" reviewed by Jack Gold-Molina

by Jack Gold-Molina

One of the longest standing members of the space rock juggernaut Hawkwind, bassist Alan Davey got his start in the late 1970s with his own heavy psychedelic rock band Gunslinger. His tenure with Hawkwind ran from 1984 to 1996, and then again, finally, from 2001 to 2007, leaving both times to pursue his own musical interests ...

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Article: Interview

Coleridge Goode: 100 Not Out!

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by Duncan Heining

To celebrate the 100th birthday of Jamaican-born bassist Coleridge Goode, All About Jazz publishes Duncan Heining's 2012 interview with Goode. A remarkable man and musician, the bassist connects aspects of British jazz from the 1930s through the war years and on through the fifties, sixties and seventies. He played with Caribbean-born and black British jazz pioneers ...

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Article: Album Review

Nucleus with Leon Thomas: Live 1970

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by Bruce Lindsay

Combine a British jazz-rock outfit with an American vocalist. Put them on stage at the 1970 Montreux Jazz Festival. Record the gig, pop the tapes in a safe place for over 40 years, then give them to the talented team at Gearbox Records. The result is Live 1970, by Nucleus With Leon Thomas, a beautifully produced, ...

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Article: Album Review

Olie Brice Quintet: Immune to Clockwork

Read "Immune to Clockwork" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

For some time, bassist Olie Brice has been a highly-regarded member of the London improvising community, so it is a genuine pleasure to welcome Immune to Clockwork, his debut album as a leader. Many ingredients combine to mark out effective band leaders from the less successful ones; on this showing, Brice ticks enough boxes to indicate ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Led Zeppelin Remastered: The Second Batch (IV & Houses of the Holy)

Read "Led Zeppelin Remastered: The Second Batch (IV & Houses of the Holy)" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

I, II, III | IV, Houses of the Holy Following the 1-2-3 punch of its first three albums--first released between January 1969 and October 1970 and reissued in June, 2014 as the first batch of a year-long series of overdue (and expanded) remasters of its entire nine-album catalog--Led Zeppelin continued on an upward trajectory, ...


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