(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… […]
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 […]