by Euan Dixon, Derek Ansell, Jazz Views The August 2021 issue of Jazz Views UK includes reviews of Steven Feifke‘s Kinetic, Dara Tucker‘s Dreams of Waking: Music for a Better World, Tim Mayer‘s Keeper of the Flame and Paul Bedal‘s Cerulean Stars. Read the full reviews here.
By Euan Dixon, Jazz Views The bright, incisive hard bop trumpet playing of Tim Hagans has enlivened many a session from his early work with the Stan Kenton orchestra of the seventies through impressive contributions to small groups such as those lead by tenorist Gordon Brisker and bassist Ron McClure. Working with the Thad Jones … Read More
By Euan Dixon, Jazz Views When Art Blakey died in 1990 Dave Gelly wrote in the obituary that appeared in The Observer , “Art Blakey’s finishing school for promising young musicians……….finally shut up shop last Tuesday with the death of its proprietor. No one can take over because no-one has the faintest idea how he … Read More
Euan Dixon, Jazz Views Here is a fine debut by a young artist whose approach to performance and composition is steeped in the hard-bop tradition but not cowed or subdued by it; an artistic voice connecting the solid precedents of previous generations with the search for a new order of expressiveness and invention. Consequently, being … Read More
