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11 Dec 2008
JAZZ The Seattle-born, New York-based pianist’s debut for Blue Note is an impressive one. Jazz piano is a currently crowded field, but Parks makes his mark in convincing fashion. All but three of the tracks also feature the guitar work of Mike…
JAZZ Jazz singers are not in short supply these days, and there is plenty of competition in the kind of straight-ahead standard repertoire that Edinburgh singer Lorna Reid tackles in this self-produced debut release on her own label. I can’t say that…
27 Nov 2008
JAZZ Norwegian bass maestro Arild Andersen teams up with our own Tommy Smith and Italian drummer Paulo Vinaccia in a superbly creative trio that has its immediate origins in the rather unlikely location of Islay. Andersen was invited to write some…
JAZZ It has been too a long a wait for a follow up to pianist Brian Kellock’s award-winning Live At Henry’s set. This album is an excellent launch for a potentially significant new recording project from Cathie Rae’s Thick Skinned Productions, and…
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13 Nov 2008
JAZZ JOE ZAWINUL & THE ZAWINUL SYNDICATE 75th (BHM/Birdjam) The concert represented on this live 2-CD set was recorded on the late Joe Zawinul’s 75th birthday on 7 July 2007 in his native Vienna (he died only a couple of months later). Despite the…
The Arches, Glasgow, Mon 24 Nov The Portico Quartet’s debut album Knee Deep in the North Sea was attracting considerable attention even before it was included among this year’s Mercury Prize nominations, including a prestigious award as Time Out’s…
The Bad Plus continue to push at the boundaries of what might constitute a jazz repertoire – and a jazz style of playing it – in the 21st century. This time round the tunes include Nirvana’s ‘Lithium’, an electrifying version of Pink Floyd’s…
30 Oct 2008
A visit to the Eduardo Paolozzi retrospective at the Dean Gallery four years ago was the starting point for alto saxophonist Martin Kershaw’s ambitious new Hero as a Riddle project. A Scottish Art Council New Music Award has finally allowed Kershaw…
Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson leads this superb trio with bassist Anders Jormin and drummer Jon Fält in a concert in Edinburgh this month, and their new disc suggests that it will be a must-see occasion. This is the first time that the pianist has…
Pianist Robert Mitchell resisted entering the crowded field of piano trios for a while, preferring to concentrate on his larger Panacea groups, but the 3io (the name apparently is how they refer to the group in text messages) with Tom Mason and Richard…
16 Oct 2008
1 Bobo is a European jazz great The Swedish pianist stands squarely alongside any of the major names in world jazz that he has worked with over the years, including the likes of Jan Garbarek, Tomasz Stanko and Charles Lloyd. 2 Live performance…
JAZZ Singer Norma Winstone’s first disc for ECM in a decade appeared back in March, with Klaus Gesing on bass clarinet and soprano saxophone and Glauco Venier on trumpet. The trio format and piano-plus-horn instrumentation echoed the halcyon days of…
What's the best way to dance at a Rumba Caliente gig? Their globe-trotter sound fuses salsa, jazz, ragga and rumba so your hips won't know what to do with themselves next. The eight-piece is led by Salsa Celtica's Toby Shippey, with musicians from…
JAZZ Opening a 30-minute suite that runs the gamut of jazz styles with a sample of a disgruntled ansaphone message isn’t the normal way to open a show, but then, 24-year-old Doncastrian pianist John Escreet is no ordinary player. Returning to the UK…
JAZZ Pianist Zoe Rahman joins forces with her brother, clarinettist and flautist Idris Rahman, to pay tribute to the Bengali heritage handed down to them by their father. The pianist’s trio with bassist Oli Hayhurst and drummer Gene Calderazzo forms…
2 Oct 2008
JAZZ Another foray into the fusion of Coltrane-influenced jazz with a vibrant African vibe that saxophonist Alan Skidmore has previously explored with Ubizo, but with a stronger slant toward the world music pole than on their two earlier discs. The…
JAZZ Saxophonist David Sanborn takes on the staple blues and R&B repertoire in a disc that many will doubtless see as just another commercial gambit from a very successful musician. The stacking up of guest artists – Derek Trucks on ‘Brother Ray’…
18 Sep 2008
JAZZ Saxophonist Charles Lloyd is now a respected elder statesman in jazz circles, but in the late 60s his group with pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette was making inroads into the rock audience with appearances at venues like the…
JAZZ The name most likely to catch the eye on this release is probably drummer Seb Rochford, although the disc was actually recorded back in 2004, and Tim Giles seems to have taken his place in the band’s more recent live dates. Nonetheless, he makes…
R&B singer who’s career kicked off in the 80s with hits like ‘If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)’ (a duet with Jonathan Butler), ‘I’d Rather Go Blind’ and ‘It’s Gonna Be Alright’ (which went to the top of the US R&B charts). Specialising in Motown soul…
21 Aug 2008
Ryan Quigley is a familiar figure on the Scottish jazz scene, not least through his long tenure in the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. The trumpeter’s love of the classic hard bop and post-bop styles of the 50s and 60s is always apparent in this…
14 Aug 2008
JAZZ (Trio Records) Eric Dolphy is a figure more often acknowledged than actually engaged with. As Brian Morton points out in his notes for this fine disc, the relative neglect of Dolphy’s compositions leaves them an open field for exploration - and…
JAZZ (Panegyric) The jazz strap-line on top of this review may prove misleading if you are coming at the recording from an acquaintance with Theo Travis’s more mainstream work with his various quartets over the years. The saxophonist also has a…
7 Aug 2008
Reminders of the legacy of the great Art Blakey and the hard bop academy that was his Jazz Messengers show no signs of abating. Alto saxophonist Bobby Watson headlined a show at the Glasgow Jazz Festival last month, his first in Scotland since 1994, and…
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11 Dec 2008
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