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Vitor Pereira Quintet: Doors

By JERRY D'SOUZA

Doors makes for an ambitious leader debut for guitarist Vitor Pereira, who describes a wide canvas of styles, each interpreted with an avid sense of accomplishment. Born in Porto, Portugal, Pereira first studied and played classical music, moving to London in 2004 and getting his degree in jazz. From then on he established himself ...

Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2011: April 27-May 2, 2011

By BRUCE LINDSAY

Cheltenham Jazz FestivalCheltenham, EnglandApril 27-May 2, 2011 The Cheltenham Jazz Festival, now in its sixteenth year, is one of the more eclectic of British jazz festivals, this year featuring major jazz figures such as vocalist Dame Cleo Laine and singer/pianist Jamie Cullum, cutting-edge bands like Outhouse Quartet and Curios, and throwing in ...

Rachel Musson's Skein: Flight Line

By CHRIS MAY

Rachel Musson's SkeinFlight LineF-IRE2011 The London musicians' collective/record label F-IRE can take much of the credit for the emergence of some singular saxophonists during the early to mid-2000s: Peter Wareham (Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bear), Mark Lockheart (Polar Bear), Finn Peters and Ingrid Laubrock being foremost among ...

Everybody Loves The Will Collier Septet

By WILL COLLIER

Label: F-IRE Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Fortnight; Gullibility Veil; Full Stop; Fat Clown; Gambit; Porcelain Frogs; Roundabout Politics; Wade; Environmental Complaints; Era.

The Will Collier Septet: Everybody Loves The Will Collier Septet

By CHRIS MAY

To name your debut album with a knowing reference to the titles producer Orrin Keepnews gave to breakthrough releases by pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Wes Montgomery--Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Riverside, 1958) and The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery (Riverside, 1960)--takes either a lot of nerve or a very British touch of self-deprecating humour. Everybody ...

Those Who Wait

By WILL COLLIER

Label: F-IRE
Released: 0