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CD Review: Marianne McGregor, Make Believe

Orcadian, multi-award-winning vocalist Marianne McGregor is one of the UK jazz scene’s most talented performers, with her third album Make Believe, released digitally on 20th...

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CD Review: Rose Room, It’s been A Long, Long Time.

Such is their integral position in the 1930s ‘Hot Club’, Gypsy Jazz scene and the extent of their following in Scotland and beyond, it feels as though Rose Room have been...

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Review: Alex Paxton, Happy Music For Orchestra

Improvising trombonist, composer and educator Alex Paxton has produced another maximalist, gem-filled treasure-chest of an album, in the form of Happy Music For Orchestra,...

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CD Review: Diana Torti and Sabino de Bari, It’s All We Have

Never before has an album’s deep lyrics contrasted so markedly with the lightness and sheer beauty of its sound. The seriousness of many, although not all, of the lyrics is...

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CD Review: Alex Paxton, ilolli-pop

Bowled over by irrepressible trombonist-improvisor Alex Paxton’s debut album Music For Bosch People last year, it was a no-brainer to want to hear his new release ilolli-pop...

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Keyna Wilkins: Composing soundtracks to some of the biggest issues of our time

It was earlier this year and thanks to covid concerns, Sydney was required to enter lock-down, when twice finalist of the Australian Art Music Award, Australian/ British flautist,...

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Charlotte Keeffe: Right Here, Right Now

This summer prolific English improvising trumpeter and composer Charlotte Keeffe released her latest album Right Here, Right Now. Lavishly showcasing her accomplishment and...

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Lukas Ligeti: Discovering new types of beauty

Lukas Ligeti is a composer, drummer, electronic percussionist and improvisor whose conceptually rich and genre transcending music is attracting increasing attention world-wide....

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