Ross McGibbon
August 30, 2021
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CONSTELLATION RECORDS 27th August 2021 A solo album from an electro-acoustic composer and saxophonist from Montreal, this is warm and atmospheric, full of character and incident whilst still washing round the body like a
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Ross McGibbon
July 25, 2021
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STONEY LANE RECORDS 30th July 2021 Xhosa Cole’s debut is superb – contemporary but with a handle you can grab if you’ve heard anything from the fifties onwards in jazz land. The opener is
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Ross McGibbon
June 29, 2021
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RHINO RECORDS 25th June 2021 on Vinyl and CD Miles Davis was a compulsive re-inventor, changing his music in seismic ways; each way bringing new fans and sometimes losing old ones. Equal to the electric
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Ross McGibbon
June 25, 2021
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WARNER MUSIC 11th June 2021 This 1974 concert is getting its first full release and on a 3 LP vinyl set (or 2 CD). It had a partial release in the seventies, but only the
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Ross McGibbon
January 29, 2021
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POLYDOR RECORDS 29th Jan, 2021 It’s been a strange year for Celeste. In some ways her skywards trajectory has been slowed by COVID-19, in other ways she has flourished despite it all. Gathering plenty of
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Ross McGibbon
November 26, 2020
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ROPEADOPE RECORDS 30 October 2020 British jazz in a very healthy place right now, despite the lack of live music and, paradoxically, part of the evidence is this German violinist, singer and composer. We’ve
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Ross McGibbon
July 29, 2020
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GEARBOX RECORDS 31ST July 2020 London label, Gearbox Records, have been flying the flag high for UK artists as well as the US releases and this continues the very high quality output. Jazz is
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Ross McGibbon
March 12, 2020
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RAINY DAYS RECORDS 13th March 2020 Jazz is experiencing a major resurgence at the moment, thanks partly to the burgeoning London scene and the enthusiasm of the students at specialist colleges like Leeds. Jazz
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Ross McGibbon
March 9, 2020
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WORLD CIRCUIT RECORDS 20th March 2020 Thankfully, like so many prolific jazz musicians, being dead hasn’t prevented Hugh Masekela releasing more excellent music. Tony Allen, the Nigerian drumming legend dug out his tapes of sessions
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Ross McGibbon
October 16, 2019
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CONSTELLATION RECORDS 18th October 2019 An absolutely fascinating album, combining spoken word, songs, poetry, structured jazz, a country fiddle and freeform jazz. Riveting me to the sound, Matana Roberts weaves fragments of the life of
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