jazz
NEWS: Gearbox Records to release EP of Don Cherry rarities; hear ‘The Ambassador From Greenland’
LONDON’S Gearbox Recotds is carrying the torch and keeping the analogue fires burning from its own bespoke production facility in the capital, has unearthed some proper jazz treasure: a quartet of sides that Don Cherry cut for Danish Radio in the mid-Sixties; and the label is issuing ’em on wax, strickly mono, 45rpm. How about …
Track: Jorn Swart & Malnoia release the bubbling chamber jazz of ‘First Ocean’
Ahead of their new album Hello Future, the experimental trio Malnoia led by pianist Jorn Swart and including viola and bass clarinet have released a new single, First Ocean. Inspired by science fiction films and literature, each of the compositions on the album is accompanied by a short story. Mixing up jazz and chamber music, …
Album Review: Lee Ritenour – ‘Dreamcatcher’
OUT RIGHT now on the Players Club label is the new album by one of LA’s finest session guitarists, Lee Ritenour, and his first solo record. The list of who Lee has played for is simply jaw dropping. Aretha Franklin, Art Garfunkel, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, BB King to name only a few, but this …
Meet: Irish songstress Liv Monaghan releases her nod to vintage Paris with ‘Chez Serge’
Lara Eidi , January 17, 2021 Irish born , internationally travelled songstress Liv Monaghan is an artist we identify with . Like her biggest inspiration, Joni MItchell, she set off from her native Cork to experience what the world, and mosty the long lost jazz scene of Paris, had to offer. Sincere, yet bold, calm …
SEE: The animated video for Samuel Sharp’s ‘Dawn Rises’; the English dawn captured in solo sax
HE’S QUITE the scion of British solo saxophone, is Samuel Sharp; not, perhaps, on the face of it, an easy thing to comprehend, but what he’s offering over what’s now a triad of single drops and next month’s album, Patterns Various, is experimental, pretty, dubby, evocative; pastoralist, impressionist, and I think an album which will …
EP: Mylow – Voyager
Founded by the Berlin band Jazzanova, the Sonar Kollectiv label has been steadily releasing enticing music of the nu-jazz/dance/electronica blend for over 20 years now. So any new name that they sign is always worth a sneak. Cue Milo Tomasovic (a.k.a Mylow) a young DJ, producer and electronic musician from Amsterdam who releases his EP …
Track: Caulbearers – Over Comes A Cloud
Caulbearers are a Manchester-based collective of musicians, but with contributors also hailing from around the UK and Europe.Based on the songs of producer and vocalist Damien Mahoney, their sound has been described as “archaic Funk fables and Soul migrations… bittersweet songs of the self, soul and society” and “roots music from the rainy city… Psychedelic …
New Music: The Silhouettes Project – Various Artists
Low slung beats and wistful melodies bring a ray of warm sunlight in times that have cast cold dark shadows over all of us. Lyrics of pure poetry flow, expressing the emotions of a generation finding their way through love, life and the world today. While musically the foundations on the compilation are predominantly Hip …
TRACK: Azmari – ‘Azalaï’: aboard the Brussels Afro/Persian jazz sextet’s caravan
AZMARI is a sextet formed in Brussels in 2015 with a deep take on the North African groove. The name? Well, an azmari is literally “one who praises” in Amharic; an Ethiopian singer-musician, comparable to the European bard. Reportedly inspired by such leading lights as Mulatu Astatke, Cymande, Fela Kuti and The Heliocentrics, the band performed at …
Live Review: Gwilym Simcock, London Jazz Festival – 606 Club live stream 19.11.20
One of the quirky things about reviewing live streams for BSM during the London Jazz Festival week is that it has actually begun to feel that I’ve been going to different places- The Barbican, King’s Place, The Green Note, Café Oto, The Total Refreshment Centre and tonight it’s off to renowned jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock’s …