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Tag: jazz

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    Andy Burrows: Fall Together Again

    Our main reaction to this was “Good on yer, son!” Burrows has been gaining in confidence since leaving Razorlight, first with tentative acoustic material then a decent-but-lacking-confidence full solo album. Now this, which is impressive. The lad’s fulfilling his potential at last. Fall Together Again is a sunny pop album. It would be stretching it…

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    Goldstone and Clemmow: Rimsky-Korsakov for piano duet

    This latest work from the husband and wife team of Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow lifts what could be pedestrian pieces of work to a higher level. We can imagine that the pieces on this CD —Scheherazade, Antar and Neopolitan Song — could be banged out by a hack player to make inoffensive background music,…

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    Terence Charlston: The Harmonious Thuringian

    We so wanted the harmonious thuringian to be a novelty musical instrument: in fact it’s a harpsichord from part of Germany (as it is now) called Thuringia, which David Evans rebuilt. The harpsichord, not Germany. He was looking for authentic music to play on it, so who better than Baroque composers Johann Sebastian Bach and…

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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…