John Thomson bass and vocals. Bill Forrest saxophone Ben Gilgen keyboards Freddie Limbert drums Maceik Hrybowicz guitar. This was the last night at the Point Chev RSA ….which is closing down. The Jazz and Blues club is moving to the Birkenhead RSA. The concert opened with funky guitar and saxophone…then the keyboards came in…funky like […]
Branford Marsalis Quartet: Branford Marsalis: soprano and tenor saxophones Joey Calderazzo: piano Eric Revis: double bass Justin Faulkner: drums ——————————- Live at Luxembourg Philharmonic Grand Auditorium , November 07, 2024 _______________________________ Member of a completely musical family (Son of Ellis Marsalis – a pianist, educator and Jason Marsalis, his brothers Wynton and Delfeayo are also […]
Callum Allardice guitar; Thomas Botting bass; Luke Sweeting piano; Hikirangi drums; The concert opened with a gentle grandeur, guitar sounding fresh and new…notes soaring into the night sky. Luke took the theme …. playing subtle like Alan Broadbent…. I felt the piano, bass, and drums were providing great support to Callum. Listening to the guitar […]
Roberto Magris ; pianist writer, and arranger. The JM horns are…Matt Otto tenor sax , Jim Mail alto sax ,Jason Goudeau trombone, Josh Williams trumpet, Ariana Nemati baritone sax, Elisa Pruitt bass, Brian Steever drums, Pablo Sannueza congas and percussion, Monique Danielle vocals on tracks two and three only. Of the eight tracks on the […]
Manjit Singh-Tabla drums Daljeet Kaur-vocalist Alan Brown-piano Nigel Gavin-guitar Mostyn Cole-bass guest drummer This concert opened with free jazz and fusion meeting the rhythms of the sub continent…Manjit showed his mastery…a call and response with the guest drummer(electronic drums and cymbals.)…. guitar ,piano and bass came in full force…in which was to be a high […]
(Cadet Records, 1969) This is a concept album recorded by jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby at the end of the 1960s. Many different moods and influences are introduced. The AllMusic reviews mentioned the influence of Coltrane and Sanders, but I hear a lot more. With the talented Lenny Druss on flute/oboe, and piccolo…the recording opens in […]
Ben Turua: bass, Julien Dyne: drums percussion, JY Lee: saxophone/flute , Joe Kaptien: keyboard /trumpet, Cameron Allen: saxophone /keyboard, Finn Scholes: vibes /trumpet, Matt Hunter: percussion and choir. Finn opened with an electric Carl Djader vibe…. JY Lee took off on a hard urban Micheal Brecker groove…. very impassioned…The choir reminded me of the Quincy […]
This club celebrates not only the English Celtic heritage, but other traditional music is celebrated too. Paul and Jennifer presented acapella harmony…one sea shanty dating from the Napoleonic wars ,and “Cluttering clattering” about coal miners going to work in the 19th century …. their wooden clogs making that sound on the cobblestones. Warren and Fi […]
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… […]