Herbie Hancock: piano and keyboards, Terence Blanchard: trumpet and keyboards, James Genus: bass, Lionel Loueka: guitar, Jaylen Petinaud: drums. Herbie came on stage joking with the audience,acting like a man thirty years younger than his 84 years. Introducing “Overture”(many pieces of songs performed over the years). Opening with a trumpet serenade… Blanchard referenced Freddie Hubbard […]
This is my take on this song. This story starts in the American south in the late 1940s… I is about a poor Afro-American teenager who has a natural talent for boxing. “When I left my home and family I was no more than a boy” some rednecks come looking for trouble and find it… […]
Editing session at Quantamleap Studios. On the 28 July 2023 Paul Cheneour (the band’s flautist) took me to a music editing session at Quantamleap Studios in the heart of the beautiful Kent countryside. There were six sessions over two years ….from July 2021 to April 2023. First of all overcoming a studio computer problem. Young […]
Laclu Album release 4/9/24 Keith Price – guitar, Francesca Parussini – alto saxophone, Max Crook – drums. The concert opened with blues based guitar improvisations, over light cymbals…alto sax came in like a wall of sound….. collective improvisation….and a beautiful light touch on the drums…while Keith walked the musical line between the African and Arabic […]
This is my take on this famous country song, solving a cold murder case. The scene is set …early summer in the lower Mississippi valley….”The third of June a sleepy dusty delta day.”….”I was out chopping cotton, my brother was baling hay…” Their Father was a good farmer, rotating his crops… Cotton in time takes […]
My take on Freddie Mercurys Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie opens asking if this is just real life or fantasy….being caught in a landslide…there is no escape from reality. Talking about his sudden rise to fame and fortune in the mid 70s. The big BUT…reality …that is his personal problems are still there. He appeals to his […]
Paul Cheneour – flutes, Dave Robinson – electronics, Clive Fletcher – electric upright bass. Music to a film by Annie Catford….musicians playing along with the film …sharp coloured abstract patterns…wheat fields landscape from a train. People on a platform. Bass improvisation over subtle electronics…flute takes off like a freebird over Central Asian mountains…. Bass strings […]
TRIESTE JAZZ FESTIVAL 7 July 2023 Anna Lauvergnac Quartet-Anna leader/vocals,ClausRaible piano Giorgio’s Antoniou bass,Xaver Helimer drums. Bass notes flew like birds in the evening trees… Anna opened with “The very thought of you”…a unique subtle style…a difference to what I have heard before. An improvisation over the range of the piano into bass soloing. On […]
Lennon-McCartney (Northern Songs) Those two writers ask “All the lonely people where do they all come from… all the lonely people where do they all belong? This question I will attempt to answer… Eleanor Rigby was not always a lonely person…. In 1914 she was a young married woman with a husband and a baby…. […]
The International Music Forum began in June 1989 as a single page jazz newsletter photocopied….and distributed to music shops in Auckland New Zealand. The first issue was a review of a concert featuring LA based New Zealand jazz pianist Alan Broadbent. In 1990 the highlight of the year was an issue with reviews of Stephan […]