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• Disc of the day: 23-11-09

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 15:42 in piano, Folk Music, violin, ecm, trumpet, cd review, european jazz, christian wallumrod, eivind lonning, giovanna pessi, gjermund larsen, per oddvar johansen

  Christian Wallumrod Ensemble: Fabula Suite Lugano (ECM 271 1269) With each release by his ensemble, the Swedish keyboardist and composer seems to have widened his stylistic scope even further. The group started out as a quartet, expanded to a sextet ...

• Russ’s pic of the week: 23-11-09

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 02:44 in Photography, saxophone, paul dunmall, birmingham uk, cbso centre, british jazz, tl's jazz club, birmingham jazz, henry grimes, us jazz, andrew cyrille, russ escritt

  Each week photographer Russ Escritt sends me his favourite picture of the week, or perhaps one from his extensive archive. Here’s one from the archive with a current relevance. It’s Paul Dunmall at the opening night of Tony Levin’...

• Jazz Alive at the Hare & Hounds

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 in jazz, birmingham uk, soweto kinch, british jazz, jazz alive, orphy robinson, hare & hounds

  Find out what tomorrow’s jazz will sound like today. Clive Powell’s Jazz Alive project gives young people a chance to explore jazz with material provided by Soweto Kinch and Orphy Robinson. Find out what happens when the young lions meet ...

• Disc of the day: 22-11-09

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 08:09 in piano, World music, decca, cd review, birmingham uk, ryuichi sakamoto

  Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing The Piano (Decca 4763609) He was due to be playing this music in Symphony Hall in Birmingham this evening, but as the concert has been cancelled you will now have to console yourself with this little gem of an album. Sakamot...

• The week ahead in gigs

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 15:03 in guitar, piano, World music, jazz, bass, drums, rainbow, vocal, madeleine peyroux, clarinet, birmingham uk, ryuichi sakamoto

  Two hugely contrasting gigs in as many days – contrasting in so many ways but both with a great deal to recommend them. On Tuesday, 24 November, a singer who has shifted an exceptional number of CDs and can fill a large auditorium but still continu...

• Disc of the day: 18-11-09

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 03:06 in guitar, new york, jazz, drums, cd review, saxophone, organ, jason brown, gary versace, us jazz, avi rothbard, posi-tone

  Wayne Escoffery: Uptown (Posi-Tone Records) He has become indelibly associated with the New York scene, but in fact tenor player Wayne Escoffery was born here in London, though he was still a child when his mother took him to the States. He is an in...

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