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The Green Seagull: Tommy Evans Orchestra – review

4368 days ago
Guardian Music — (Jellymould)Tommy Evans, the young, Leeds-trained musician whose teachers have included Matthew Bourne, has already won some high-end attention as a big-band writer (including the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors' Contemporary Co... more info
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Tony Marsh

4596 days ago
Guardian Music — Jazz percussionist whose drumming combined intensity with restraintThe percussionist Tony Marsh, who has died of cancer aged 72, was an inspired collaborator, combining intensity with restraint and stroking the drums more than he struck them. He work... more info
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Pete Saberton

4597 days ago
Guardian Music — Unorthodox jazz pianist, teacher and composerA boiled-down account of the life of the British jazz pianist and composer Pete Saberton, who has died of myeloma aged 61, would probably sound pretty familiar to jazz habitués. A gifted individualist who... more info
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Mike Osborne Trio: The Birmingham Jazz Concert – review

4627 days ago
Guardian Music — (Cadillac)Mike Osborne was one of the most adventurous saxophonists to emerge from the transitional 1960s/70s period in British jazz – after the strict harmonic rules of bebop were transformed by the free jazz of Ornette Coleman. Osborne worked in ... more info
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From the archive, 7 March 1972: The origins of the Bickershaw festival

4643 days ago
Guardian Music — Originally published in the Guardian on 7 March 1972Bickershaw is a tiny mining village near Wigan. It was last heard of for its colliery band, which kept winning prizes in the thirties, and rehearsed in the Foresters Arms. Now the pub is to become t... more info
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Graham Collier obituary

4817 days ago
Guardian Music — Composer and educator who played an important part in raising the status of British jazzThe jazz composer Graham Collier liked quoting an old friend's description of watching him handle a big band – like someone "directing 14 Jackson Pollocks". How... more info
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Mike Westbrook Premiere, Kings Place, London, review

4981 days ago
The Telegraph — Husband-and-wife team Mike and Kate Westbrook are happy to keep going their own way. Rating: * * * more info
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50 great moments in jazz: Jan Garbarek, ECM Records and the 1970s European renaissance

4988 days ago
Guardian Music — From the late 1960s onward, European jazz musicians began to look to their own cultural tradition. The first steps were tentative, but by the mid-1970s they had become giant stridesEberhard Weber, the jazz-raised German electric bassist, is reputed t... more info
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monday noon updates

5044 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — Any Major Dude said... TV THEMES: BIG BANG THEORY Theme from The Big Bang Theory Barenaked Ladies – Big Bang Theory (full version) Barenaked Ladies – You Can Be My Yoko Ono The Big Bang Theory – Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock (dialogue clip) ... more info
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Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood and the rise in British jazz

5124 days ago
Guardian Music — By the 60s, British jazz no longer sounded like an American clone. Among the works that took the genre to new heights, Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood still reigns supremeWhen Wynton Marsalis appeared at a Barbican tribute concert to the late Sir John ... more info
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