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WEBBanfield, Bill: Take Time to Listen They say : Guitarist Banfield’s new release is a solo guitar project of pop classics and jazz standards and his guitar work is bluesy, funky, sonorous and abstract.(Mesa/BlueMoon Recordings) Barnes, Alan & David Newton: Tis Autumn They say: Pianist David Newton combines taste, touch and innate harmonic sense while Barnes plays saxophones and clarinets with ...
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WEBJJ 09/94: David Murray – Live ’93 Acoustic Octfunk. Jazz Journal - 25 September 2024. Thirty years ago Barry McRae said it was easy to take the ubiquitous Murray for granted, even as he perpetually sought novelty.
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WEBGypsy Jazz Festival of London, 6-13 May. Jazz Journal - 19 April 2024.
Reviewed: Garden, Nigel Price & Alban Claret, Dario Miranda
WEB4 days ago · The three are augmented on the almost eerie West, another of the album’s five brevities, by baritone saxophonist Henrik Büller, and on four other tracks by the restrained percussion of Arne Martin Nybo.The eponymous Pilgrim, according to explanation, is a chart about journeying.It’s what one might call “measured Nordic” in form but in programmatic content may or may not suggest ...
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WEBJazz Journal is the oldest English-language magazine dedicated to the coverage of jazz music. Founded by Sinclair Traill in 1948, it has been published from the UK in web-form only since 19th January 2019, following continuous print publication for seven decades. The editor is Mark Gilbert, who was assistant editor of the magazine 1981-1999 and ...
Jazz in review: 2020 - Jazz Journal
WEBJan 5, 2021 · The good: New discoveries: The Majamisty Trio from Serbia, Dezron Douglas and Brandee Young in Harlem lockdown, Ian McGimpsey and Harrison Argatoff from Ontario, and – new to me, at least – Julia Hülsmann from Germany and the wondrous guitarist Mary Halvorson from Massachusetts. The continuing creative strength of Ahmad Jamal, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids and Kahil El’Zabar, and the ...
London Jazz Festival back to strength
WEBSep 18, 2021 · Photo by Andrés Pino. After a perforce quieter year in 2020 the EFG London Jazz Festival is largely back to strength this year, running 12-21 November with plenty of live shows. Among the many highlights are Julian Lage; Richard Bona & Alfredo Rodriguez Band; Archie Shepp & Jason Moran; John Scofield and …
Joshua Breakstone: jazz guitar in the tradition - Jazz Journal
WEBDec 13, 2022 · The result follows. Joshua Breakstone was born 22 July 1955 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from NYC. He began guitar around age 15 and was soon playing rock and roll with friends. His introduction to jazz came from a friend of one of his older sisters, saxophonist Rick Centalonza, at …
Jazz in review: 2019 - Jazz Journal
WEBJan 15, 2020 · John Adcock. Musician and critic Tom Moon, author of the excellent 1000 Recordings To Hear Before you Die, wrote of his journey of musical discovery that there is “great treasure waiting on the other side of wherever you draw your territorial lines”.December 2019 marked 10 years for me as a critic for Jazz Journal and in that time I have found a lot of treasure, often in the most ...
Various: Spiritual Jazz 13 – NOW! (Parts One & Two)
WEBDec 26, 2020 · Produced and compiled by Gerald Short, the two-part Spiritual Jazz 13 embraces a considerable territorial range. Part One deals with the Netherlands and the UK, Spain, Finland, Belgium, the USA and South Africa, while Part Two covers Canada, Germany, Italy, Australia, Finland, the UK, Sweden and the USA. As previously, production values impress ...