Rudresh Mahanthappa – Southern Flight
- Thursday, February 19, 2015
Rudresh Mahanthappa has, since his 1994 debut album Yatra, made deep in-roads into fusing his Indian heritage with an attacking, sharp-edged alto sax style.
Features
Strata East - A Higher State Of Consciousness
- Thursday, February 19, 2015
As fiercely independent label Starta East proved in the 1970s, bold artistry from the likes of Pharaoh Sanders, Clifford Jordan, Cecil McBee and Gil Scott-Heron and potent political visions can encapsulate the signs and sounds of the times.
Chris Potter – Living for the City
- Thursday, February 19, 2015
Chris Potter’s ascent to the top of the tenor sax tree hasn’t been as swift as his current form might suggest it should have been – more a steady 20-year burn of increasingly impressive playing and recording.
Gilad Atzmon – The Third Man
- Thursday, January 22, 2015
For the past two decades Israeli-born, UK-based saxophonist, author and political provocateur Gilad Atzmon has matched his incendiary playing and controversial opinions with a relentlessly questioning attitude to the establishment and his own identity.
Troyka – Avian Adventurers
- Thursday, January 22, 2015
Since their self-titled opening salvo in 2006, keyboardist Kit Downes, guitarist Chris Montague and drummer Joshua Blackmore of relentlessly progressive three-piece Troyka, have become something of a Brit-jazz supergroup.
Marius Neset – Pinball Wizard
- Thursday, January 22, 2015
Quite literally exploding onto the European jazz scene in just three short years since the release of his breakthrough solo album, Golden Xplosion, 29-year old Norwegian sax demon Marius Neset combines gale-force intensity with high-octane ideas for maximum impact.
Laura Jurd – Hooting and Howling
- Thursday, January 22, 2015
Barely into her twenties, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, Chaos Collective founder and Blue-Eyed Hawk bandmember Laura Jurd is not just one of the leading instrumentalists of her generation but also a musician of great creative vision.
Sun Ra – Sounds of the Universe
- Thursday, November 27, 2014
Should composer, bandleader, poet, pianist and visionary Sun Ra be looking back at earth from his chosen interplanetary home of Saturn at the close of this centenary year of his birth, he may not be surprised to see the seeds of his Afrofuturism flourishing anew.
Roller Trio – Three Feet High and Rising
- Thursday, November 27, 2014
Having stamped their authority on the 2012 Mercury Music Prize shortlist, not least with a blistering performance at the awards ceremony that left the mainly rock and pop audience in slack-jawed awe, Roller Trio arrived like a bolt from the blue.
Branford Marsalis – Spiritual Soliloquy
- Thursday, November 27, 2014
Branford Marsalis has always tackled every musical challenge head on – be it playing arenas with Sting, freewheeling improvised rock with the Grateful Dead, primetime US television shows or leading one of the hottest quartets in contemporary jazz.