Review Corner

Category: Jazz

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    Dylan Howe: Subterranean

      We’re not massive Bowie fans in the Review Corner — we’re not massive fans of anyone in the “we love everything they ever do and they’re the biggest genius ever” way, agreeing with Scroobius Pip that they’re all just bands — so this CD went partly over our collective heads. We tell you this…

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    Get The Blessing – Lope and Antilope

    Jazz drumming is too hard for me to play (well, probably, never tried it) but seems to be led by the ride cymbal and not, as in rock, by snare and kick drum. Get The Blessing is another category (ii) jazz band (see Ant Law, below) but I’d venture to suggest that that difference between…

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    Ant Law – Entanglement

    There are – officially – three types of jazz, which is a style of music that attracts adherents as dedicated to the cause as Smiths fans. These are : (i) New Orleans / Dixieland / trad, which has tunes and melody, can sometimes reference hymns, features men with umbrellas, and is fun; (ii) Clint Eastwood…