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Tubby Hayes Intensity
Recorded at Ronnie Scott's in spring 1965, this hitherto unreleased material
catches Tubby Hayes in a brief period between bands as fellow tenor player
Simon Spillett points out in his comprehensive liner notes, Hayes experienced
'a recurring headache' caused by his 'inability to fix satisfying rhythm
sections in the UK' until he chanced upon Tony Levin in 1966.
The James Taylor Quartet Live
at The Jazz Cafe
The James Taylor Quartet have been dispensing their particular mix of organ-centred
jazz, funk and R&B since 1985, and this album catches them in their natural
setting, London's Jazz Caf³, a venue at which, according to Taylor himself,
they have played over 150 gigs in seventeen years.
Lionel Loueke Karibu
The sheer novelty of Lionel Loueke's approach Æ he simultaneously sings/croons
in a gentle, high voice and picks out intriguing runs on guitar, thus producing
not instrumental solos plus vocal accompaniment, but a single sound composed
of voice and guitar Æ may not make his music immediately accessible, but
once assimilated, it richly rewards the effort required to appreciate it.
Neon Here
to There
Neon is a trio comprised of saxophonist/flautist Stan Sulzmann, pianist
(here also heard on french horn) Gwilym Simcock and vibes/marimba player
Jim Hart, and this is their debut recording. Given their instrumentation,
the trio might easily have produced a somewhat cluttered sound...
Tony Kofi Quartet The
Silent Truth
Returning to the line-up that made the Monk-themed album All is Know
four years ago ® Tony Kofi on various saxophones, pianist Jonathan Gee,
bassist Ben Hazleton, drummer Winston Clifford ® celebrates, according to
Kofi himself, the fact that the group sound has 'solidified' since that
first recording.
Jazz Warriors Afropeans
Given that one of the most disappointing aspects of the much-vaunted UK
jazz renaissance at the end of the 1980s was the somewhat mysterious demise
of the original Jazz Warriors, disbanded after only one album (Out of
Many One People, Island, 1987), the rebirth marked by Afropeans
is doubly welcome.
Louise Gibbs & Kirk Lightsey Everybody's
Song But Our Own
For this album, its name adapted from the celebrated Kenny Wheeler composition,
singer Louise Gibbs and pianist Kirk Lightsey have taken their material
from modern jazz classics (Wayne Shorter's 'Footprints', Charles Mingus's
'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat', Thelonious Monk's 'Ruby My Dear' etc.)...
Outhouse Outhouse
Outhouse have been dispensing their driving, often exhilarating music live
for some time now, frequently at the Vortex, the Oxford and similar venues,
but this eponymous album is their first attempt to capture their sound on
CD.
Nicolas Meier Silence
Talks
Thoroughly immersed in Turkish culture and music – his wife is from
Turkey and he spends a lot of time there – but grounded in jazz,
guitarist/composer Nicolas Meier has found the perfect musical collaborator
in front-line partner, saxophonist Gilad Atzmon.
Cormac Kenevey The
Art of Dreaming
The follow-up to Irish singer Cormac Kenevey's debut album This is
Living, The Art of Dreaming mixes a selection of standards
(torchy – 'The Night We Called It a Day', 'I Fall in Love Too Easily';
romantic – 'All of You', 'The Way You Look Tonight';
Arthurs.Hoiby.Ritchie Explications
This trio mention everyone from Der Rote Bereich, Ellery Eskelin and Tim
Berne to Andrei Tarkovsky and Jean-Luc Godard as inspirational figures,
and their shifting, restless, multi-faceted music faithfully reflects this
wide-ranging artistic adventurousness.
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