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Derek Ansell
Derek Ansell, who sadly died in December 2024, wrote fiction, biography and features. His Workout: The Music of Hank Mobley was published by Northway Publications and was reprinted. His The Bradgate Heiress was published by Creativia. His jazz and music writing for Jazz Journal and Newbury Weekly News expanded to cover classical music and theatre reviews.
Dave Jones: Unfinished Sentences
This set of nine performances from 1999, made when Dave Jones was a part-time masters student at Kingston University, is released here for the...
Michael Garrick: A New Serious Music
New and serious it was, with Garrick determined to present a type of jazz that was very British and owed little to the African-American...
Hilary Kole: Sophisticated Lady
The start of Hilary Kole’s career as a jazz vocalist dates to 1998. As a very young vocalist she did the obligatory club sets...
The Cookers: Look Out
This group could easily be described as the modern jazz veterans, most of them in their 70s and Billy Hart over 80. The septet...
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Billy Cobham: Total Eclipse
This turned out to be an album of contrasts but always interesting ones. Cobham put together a band of first-rate improvisers in the early...
Otooto: This Love Is For You
This LP consists of 11 tracks, some fairly short, of mood music mainly with instrumental solos patched in. The overall sound is electronic with...
Emil De Waal: Vente
Drummer DeWaal’s quartet has the somewhat unusual line up of clarinet, guitar, organ and drums. Gustaf Ljunggren plays guitar but doubles on clarinet, so...
Art Blakey & Clifford Brown: A Night At Birdland
Originally recorded and issued by Blue Note as by the Art Blakey Quintet, this talent-laden group was really the start of the Jazz Messengers...
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Charlie Parker: The Charlie Parker Collection, 1941-1954
This is a selection of Parker recordings from 1941 until his last in 1954 but despite filling six CDs with 137 tracks it doesn’t...
Dave Jones: Crime Scenes And Subterfuge
This is a 10-track download of themes suitable for use on TV, film and general drama productions. Dave Jones has set up an electronic...
Little North: Finding Seagulls
The music on this LP consists of 11 originals of varying lengths written by members of the trio. It begins though with a reflective...
Jacob Dinesen, Anders Christensen, Laust Sonne: Blessings
Working, it would seem, as a three-man collective band, the trio are a well-integrated small combo playing contemporary jazz with reference to the hard...
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