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Sep 1, 20233 min read
BILLIE HOLIDAY – “SHE FLEW IN THERE LIKE A BIRD” (PART ONE)
“I lowered the needle onto the spinning black disc. The music began with the notes of a piano stepping lightly as a dancer. Suddenly and...
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Aug 23, 20232 min read
NUCLEUS – ELASTIC ROCK and WE’LL TAKE ABOUT IT LATER (1970/2023)
Yet another vinyl reissue for the popular jazz rock fusion band with musicians like trumpeter and MILES DAVIS/ KEITH JARRETT chronicler...
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Aug 23, 20231 min read
BRIAN AUGER, JULIE DRISCOLL AND THE TRINITY – FAR HORIZONS – THE TRINITY BOX SET (2022)
Now here is something absolutely essential in 5 x LP, 4 x CD or download, and available on BANDCAMP. We have OPEN (1967), the one with...
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Aug 23, 20231 min read
NINA SIMONE – YOU’VE GOT TO LEARN (2023)
It may just have been released on Verve Records, but this archive recording is actually from the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966. While, I...
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Aug 23, 20231 min read
DISS – COVERY: CHARLES LLOYD + THE MARVELS + LUCINDA WILLIAMS- VANISHED GARDENS (2018)
I got re-acquainted with the music of tenor saxophonist/ flautist CHARLES LLOYD with his trilogy of 2022 albums “Trios” (“Chapel”,...
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Aug 9, 20231 min read
DAVE HOLLAND – CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS (1973/ 2022)
I am not a major fan of free jazz, but this albums by a quartet of Sam Rivers (reeds, flute), Anthony Braxton (reeds, flute) led by...
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Jul 31, 20231 min read
SȂNOR SZABÔ and KEVIN KASTNING – EPHEMERAL VI (2023)
You may well have heard of Hungarian Sânor Szabô if you are a student of guitar, and if you are intrigued by the prospect of hearing a...
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Jul 31, 20232 min read
CÉCILE BROCHÉ – 3D@PARIS (2023)
I wasn’t sure about this at first, but something drove me back to it, and now I can’t stop listening – headphones help as this is a great...
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Jul 19, 20231 min read
BRIAN AUGER & JULIE TIPPETTS - ENCORE (1977/ 2023)
The Esoteric/ Red Cherry is releasing an album on CD that has been in my vinyl collection for a while (although I did discover it...
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Jul 19, 20232 min read
PETER BRÖTZMANN RIP (1941-2023)
Influenced by Sidney Bechet, Brözmann took up clarinet as a young teenager, but mostly concentrated on saxophone thereafter. He was also...
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Jul 19, 20232 min read
PAKT – LIVE IN PIERMONT (2023)
This is the third live PAKT album and they are; PERCY JONES: bassist extraordinary. Most famously with BRAND X, but he also appears on...
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Jul 19, 20231 min read
MATTHEW HALSALL – AN EVER CHANGING VIEW
Manchester trumpeter Matthew Halsall has gained quite a following and reputation since he founded his Godwana Records outlet fifteen...
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Jul 19, 20231 min read
MAX ROACH –MEMBERS, DON’T GET WEARY (1968/ 2023)
Think of a big name in Bop and Post-bop Jazz and Max Roach has probably drummed with them, as well as releasing the seminal protest album...
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Jul 12, 20231 min read
SOFT MACHINE – OTHER DOORS (2023)
The response to this album has been positive, and it’s easy to hear why if you sample the five available tracks on Bandcamp as a...
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Jun 27, 20232 min read
GO GO PENGUIN – EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK (2023) Is it Jazz?
Manchester group GO GO PENGUIN’s first album Fanfares came out on trumpeter par excellence Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana label. Next came...
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Jun 21, 20231 min read
EVENINGS AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD: JOHN COLTRANE WITH ERIC DOLPHY (1961/ 2023)
We’ve waited over six decades for this: the tapes were lost, then found, then mislaid, then found again at the New York Public Library....
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Jun 21, 20231 min read
CHRISTIAN McBRIDE’s NEW JAWN – PRIDE (2023)
When I heard Christian McBride was releasing a new album, I just had to check it out. I cannot claim to be too familiar with his previous...
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Jun 7, 20231 min read
ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE - THETA SIX (2023)
Martin Archer's label of love, DISCUS MUSIC, promotes "new creative music by living, working musicians". Described as "an ever morphing...
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