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This category covers reviews of jazz material including CDs, DVDs, and other recorded material. Reviews are not necessarily directed at the most recent releases. If you would like to submit a review, please get in touch with us via the 'contact us' button. Your review need not be of the artist's 'latest' material - it could be one of your favourites that you would like to tell us about....

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'The New Quartet'

'The New Quartet' performed by Mike Garrick .
Personnel: Michael Garrick (ldr/pno), Martin Hathaway (alto), Paul Moylan (bass), Alan Jackson (drs)
Category: Quartet/Quintet.
Reference: Jazz Academy JATA 7.

Michael Garrick includes compositions (by the leader and Martin Hathaway) that embody a variety of styles. Other classic pieces by Ellington (a long-standing influence and hero of Garrick's) Golson, Pastorius and the late Anglo/West Indian alto saxophonist Joe Harriot, feature importantly in this collection. ............ click on the header to read the full review....

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'Passione'

'Passione' performed by Luca Luciano .
Personnel: Luca Luciano (ldr/flt/clt), Fabrizio Fiume (tpt/flugel), Rosario Volpe (gtr), Giovanni Giangiacomo (perc), Ciro Troise (drs), Massimo Marcogliano (bass), Mario Buonafede (pno)
Category: Small band.
Reference: Musicisti Associate Produzioni MO CD 0319.

Twenty-eight-year-old MU member Luca Luciano has recorded a 25 minute sampler disc of his spirited clarinet and flute talents, largely in the jam and Latin idioms. This selection of nifty numbers are mostly his compositions, along with Autumn Leaves and an excerpt from Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata............ click on the header to read the full review....

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'So Far, So Good'

'So Far So Good' performed by Karen Sharp .
Personnel: Karen Sharp (ldr/tnr), Dave Priseman (tpt), Richard Busiakiewicz (pno), John Day (bass), Matt Fishwick (drs)
Category: Quartet/Quintet.
Reference: Mauf06.

Karen Sharp's second release on the 33 label, So far so good, conveys exactly that. Bolstered by a solid rhythm team and the sterling trumpet musings of Dave Priseman on a few tracks, Karen clearly asserts herself as tenorist, arranger/composer and bandleader of considerable talents........... click on the header to read the full review....

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'Tenorama' and 'The Miller's Tale'

'Tenorama' performed by John Williams' Tenorama.
Personnel from: John Williams (ldr/saxes/clt), Bob Sydor (saxes/clt), Dave Gelly (tnr), Don Rendell (tnr), Karen Sharp (tnr), Renato d'Angelo (tnr), Phil Day (tnr), Steve Waterman (tpt), Mark Latimer (pno), John Horler (pno), Jim Richardson (bass), Mario Castronari (bass), Asaf Sirkis (drs), Trevor Tomkins (drs).
Category: Small Band.
Reference: Spotlite SPJ572-CD

'The Miller's Tale' performed by the Matt Wates Sextet.
Personnel: Matt Wates (ldr/alto), Martin Shaw (tpt), Steve Kaldestad (tnr), Leon Greening (pno), Malcolm Creese (bass), Steve Brown (drs).
Category: Small Band.
Reference: audio-b Ltd ABCD5014.

London, like NYC, is a bandleader/writer's haven - possessing an unending supply of qualified and keen players eager to contribute their time and abilities to projects like these two CDs.

The John Williams set includes treatments of classic works by Oliver Nelson, Mingus and Silver.......... click on the header to read the full review....

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'John Harle Plays'

'John Harle Plays' (Music by Bennett, Berkeley, Denisov, Heath, Woods) performed by John Harle .
Personnel: John Harle (saxes/clt), John Lenehan (pno)
Category: Sax-piano duo.
Reference: Clarinet Classics CCO048.

Stalwart saxophonist/composer John Harle has reissued on CD a 1987 vinyl offering on the Clarinet Classics label. A noteworthy variety of composers is featured including Phil Woods, Richard Rodney Bennett.......... click on the header to read the full review....

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'Some Times'

'Some Times' performed by Ingrid Laubrock .
Personnel from: Ingrid Laubrock (ldr/saxes/voice), Julian Siegel (saxes/bs. clt), Byron Wallen (tpt/flugel), Mark Bassey (tbn), Nikki Iles (pno), Karim Merchant (pno), Ife Tolentino (gtr). Larry Bartley (bass), Tom Skinner (drs)
Category: Small Band.
Reference: Candid 79744.

Ingrid Laubrock's soprano saxophone is clearly her strongest voice, playing it on most of the cuts with brief forays on tenor and alto. Her seamless negotiation.......... click on the header to read the full review....

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'Multicoloured Blue' and 'Catalyst'

'Multicoloured Blue' performed by The Strayhorn Project.
Personnel: Stu Butterfield (ldr/drs), Steve Kaldestad (tnr), Phil Lee (gtr), Dave Whitford (bass).
Category: Quartet.

'Catalyst' performed by Acoustic Triangle.
Personnel: Malcom Creese (ldr/bass), Tim Garland (saxes/clt), Gwilym Simcock (pno).
Category: Trio.
Reference: audio-b Ltd ABCD5015.

While these CDs differ in material and stylistic approach, their areas in common are remarkable. They feature two premiere saxophonists in the UK today, both of whom possess prodigious technique and use it in an original and musical fashion. With an overload of 'Circuit Breckers'.......... click on the header to read the full review....

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Performers ( 9 items )

This category selection provides access to stories, inteviews, analyses and other literature dealing with Performers in jazz. The current material covers interviews with Sir John Dankworth and Pete Cater and a retrospective of Bill Evans. If you would like to submit an article or an item of a relevant nature, please get in touch with us via the 'contact us' button. Tell us about your jazz.....

Aspects of music practice and performance ( 4 items )

Items in this category deal with the 'nuts and bolts' of practising your music and finding outlets for your product. Subjects covered to date are 'getting gigs', 'developing improvising skills from a 'classical' background' and 'potential physiological problems of being a practising musician'. Contact us to make a contribution....

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