Your Search Returned 6 tagged news reports
December 2, 2012 Many contemporary music and cultural commentators disparage the UK's '80s pop scene as a time seemingly in thrall to new technologies, and whose throwaway commercial hits are long forgottenand rightly so...Others look far more
Tags:
For the Edge albums reminded longer-in-the-tooth jazz fans what a furnace this exciting band could stoke up, and maybe surprised some newcomers with the sharpness of the 1970s UK cutting-edge. These previously unreleased Berlin tapes from 1981/82
Tags:
Harry Beckett Tribute review Vortex, London On the late, great Barbadian trumpeter Harry Beckett's birthday 30 May a score of musicians came to pay their respects. Beckett , who died last year after an almost six-decade career in UK jazz , was at
Tags:
When Harry Beckett, the fine Barbadian trumpeter, died in July, the UK lost one of its most instantly recognisable jazz soloists. In his last years, Beckett had collaborated with pop producers and explored unfamiliar formats for improvisation, but
Tags:
One of the most eloquent and inventive of our jazz players, the trumpeter and flugelhorn player Harry Beckett didn't get the recognition he deserved. Because he was a quiet and gentle person, he remained a sideman and not primarily a bandleader. He
Tags:
Graham Collier Music Darius / Midnight Blue / New Conditions BGO 2009 The benefit of hindsight reveals how the three LPs, recorded in the mid-1970s, collected here form the bridge between British bassist, composer and bandleader Graham Collier's
Tags: