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Exclusive preview | Daniel Bennett Group, Sinking Houseboat Confusion.

Daniel Bennett is a saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist who, with his group, The Daniel Bennett Group, has made solid inroads to music in both his native New York State and...

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CD Review | Elliot Galvin Trio, Punch

Elliot Galvin was compared to Django Bates in The Guardian – with a sense of English humour, great improv chops and strong character as player and composer. I disagree. On this...

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CD Review | Mac Gollehon & The Hispanic Mechanics

Mac Gollehon was born in North Carolina and played blues guitar until around aged 10 his father, the trumpet player Joe Gollehon , got him playing a trumpet. At 13, Mac met...

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Concert Review | Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter and the Jazz@Lincoln Centre orchestra

The Barbican Centre, Mr Wynton Marsalis with Mr Wayne Shorter and the Jazz@Lincoln Centre orchestra (J@LCO). Could it get any better? The Barbican Centre, Mr Wynton Marsalis with...

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EP Review | Skylark – Kitty La roar (Featuring Nick Shankland)

This EP of 4 songs from Kitty La Roar and Nick Shankland opens with ‘Skylark’, the 1941 song with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Hoagy Carmichael. Considering the...

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Interview with Knoel Scott – Part 3

Read Part 1 & Part 2 of the interview here. So, what about the more spiritual side – how does jazz make you feel? I asked. Knoel said, “I feel that jazz is actually the...

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Interview with Knoel Scott – Part 2

Read Part 1 of this interview here. How did you get well known, I asked – when was your ‘break’? Knoel replies, “Jamaica, Queens was a residential middle class community...

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Gig Review | The Blockheads Ipswich 24th July 2015

To say The Blockheads have still got it is a bit of an understatement and tonight, on a rainy, cool July Friday night, the Music Room in the backwaters of Ipswich was the venue at...

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Gilad Atzmon and The Orient House Ensemble at Ipswich Jazz Club

‘ Do you know he is one of the best players alive today?’ someone asked me recently about Gilad Atzmon. I did not know how to reply because for me, Gilad is distinctive and...

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CD Review | Marco Marconi Trio “Nordik”

Every so often the fates contrive to bring together musicians of incredible talent, put them in the hands of a good recording engineer, give them a good producer and the result is...

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