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News: Festival

First Names For Brecon Jazz 30th Pay Tribute To Origins

First Names For Brecon Jazz 30th Pay Tribute To Origins

Brecon Jazz 2014 is the 30th anniversary year of the world-famous festival, and in tribute, the organizer Orchard has announced the first few names for August 8-10, with appearances by trumpeter Warren Vaché and renowned local band Mike Harries and the Root Doctors who both played at the first ever Brecon Jazz in 1984, a reunited ...

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Article: Album Review

Melt Yourself Down: Melt Yourself Down

Read "Melt Yourself Down" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Shouty, funky, groovy, heavy, punky, jazzy--the UK-based Melt Yourself Down is all of these things and more. Debut album Melt Yourself Down demonstrates all of these qualities, with a collection of songs that demands, and deserves, attention, respect, love and dancing in equal measure. Melt Yourself Down includes some of the UK's finest, most ...

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Article: Album Review

Outside Line: Introducing Outside Line

Read "Introducing Outside Line" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

The glory days of Leeds United may be long gone, but while its football team has seen better times, the Yorkshire city's music scene has gone from strength to strength. The individualist stance taken by musicians such as Matthew Bourne hasn't always pleased the jazz police, but it's given Leeds a reputation as a vibrant and ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Dominic Lash and Ricardo Tejero together

Read "Dominic Lash and Ricardo Tejero together" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Among a host of other activities too numerous to catalogue, bassist Dominic Lash and saxophonist / clarinetist Ricardo Tejero are both long-standing stalwarts of the London Improvisers Orchestra, so it was almost inevitable that they would gravitate towards each other in a smaller grouping at some point, as had happened with other LIO regulars. But, as ...

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Article: Live Review

JACK Quartet at The MAC, Belfast

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by Ian Patterson

JACK Quartet The MAC Belfast January 18, 2013 “This is really weird," a woman said as she deliberated where to sit for the concert. With no stage in the windowless room and the two halves of the audience facing each other--an arrangement which naturally invited plenty of mutual, casual scrutiny--there ...

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Article: Album Review

Elton Dean / Paul Dunmall / Paul Rogers / Tony Bianco: Remembrance

Read "Remembrance" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

English saxophonist Elton Dean has inspired several memorials since his untimely demise in 2006. But there is always space for another when it is as vital as Remembrance, a two CD set from 2004 issued by the Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint. Best known for his seminal work with the jazz rock pioneers Soft Machine, Dean also amassed ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Lyte Records: Dancing To Different Beats

Read "Lyte Records: Dancing To Different Beats" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Since its inception in 2007, Lyte Records has earned a reputation as one of the very best labels in Ireland/Northern Ireland for independent jazz artists and creative musicians of various stripes. What started out as a very small, personal concern for Lyte Records founder David Lyttle has grown into something much bigger; international recognition came Lyte ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

New Compositions From Huddersfield On Another Timbre

Read "New Compositions From Huddersfield On Another Timbre" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Soon after Another Timbre was inaugurated in autumn 2007, its proprietor Simon Reynell said, “My interest in contemporary classical music has continued alongside my passion for improv, so I was very clear that I wanted Another Timbre to cover both areas. However I soon discovered that most classical music is prohibitively expensive to bring to disc, ...

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Article: Book Review

Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disbaility

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by Ian Patterson

Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability George McKay 230 pages ISBN: #978-0-472-05209-7 University of Michigan Press 2013 Given the vast quantities written about popular music culture it is perhaps surprising that so little critical space has been given to disability and popular music. Despite this anomaly, author George ...

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Article: Album Review

Gwilym Simcock and Yuri Goloubev: Reverie At Schloss Elmau

Read "Reverie At Schloss Elmau" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Schloss Elmau, in Bavaria, was the recording venue for pianist Gwilym Simcock's Barclaycard Mercury Prize nominated solo album Good Days At Schloss Elmau (ACT Music, 2011). In March 2013 Simcock returned to the Schloss in the company of double bassist Yuri Goloubev. The result is Reverie At Schloss Elmau. It's the first duo album by these ...


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