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Issue #136 - Sonny Rollins

Wednesday, 02 December 2009 15:09

Tenor Of Our Times - Sonny Rollins

Take a minute just to contemplate the power and glory of Sonny Rollins and the sheer scale of his achievement. Whether it is getting completely inside the most tender of ballads or delivering the most audaciously fiendish bebop run imaginable, or even charming an audience with flavours of the Caribbean, he knows the perfect route. Right there when bebop was freshly minted and he was running around with Miles and the fast set, through his startling early flowering with stone classic Saxophone Colossus, to his London jazz club days in the 60s, and up to today when he steps up to the mark once again live and in the studio. Very few come near. Read more...

Live And In Living Colour - Jan Garbarek

As a brand new double live album is released and ahead of a tour by his newly constituted group early next year the great Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek looks back to his early years before Afric Pepperbird, the definitive album that changed the face of European jazz forever and launched a new sound identified with his label ECM. Therein lie the roots of his appeal, its Nordic essence in a nutshell but also deep within the sonorous Garbarek tones there’s an important side to his playing informed by the early pioneers of jazz saxophone like Coleman Hawkins, his great hero as a teenager the hard blowing Dexter Gordon, and above all John Coltrane. As Stuart Nicholson discovers, there’s much more to Garbarek than meets the eye. Read more...

Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - Gwilym Simcock

Meteor-like, Gwilym Simcock hit the jazz scene with a vengeance when he made an assured debut with Perception two years ago, devastatingly belying his newcomer status. Since then he has made giant strides in both the jazz and classical world but will he be able to justify the oceans of praise he has received with follow-up album Blues Vignette? If anything the stakes have been raised still higher on the double album with a brand new trio, a version of the Grieg piano concerto, vocal standards ‘Black Coffee’ and ‘Cry Me a River’ and even a tribute to Weather Report’s Jaco Pastorius and Joe Zawinul. Selwyn Harris catches up with Simcock on tour in south east Asia. Read more...

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Gary Burton and Chick Corea - Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972-79 *****
Jim Hart’s Gemini - Narrada ***

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