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Nic Jones
Nic Jones hasn't been the same since he first heard the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and Anthony Braxton's quartet with Kenny Wheeler around 40 years ago. He lives in Oxfordshire, quietly and curiously.
Marc Copland Quartet: Someday
The pianist's group takes a subtle, reserved attitude to postbop originals and standards including Someday My Prince and Nardis
Scott Clark: Dawn & Dusk
Drummer leads quintet in grey, forbidding music coming out of the hard-bop mould but with a marked individuality
Don Braden: Earth Wind And Wonder, Volume 2
Tenor saxophonist and sextet imaginatively recast mostly lesser-known tunes from Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind and Fire as straightahead jazz
Peter Epstein: Two Legs Bad
Saxophonist leads sextet featuring trumpet and guitar in music ranging from the fusion-flavoured to the rubato and freeish
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Dee Byrne: Outlines
British combo featuring trumpet, alto, clarinet, piano, bass and drums essays 60s-style hard bop, free improvisation and modalism
Bobby Watson: Appointment In Milano
One of Blakey's last altoists showed his musicality and good taste in company with a sympathetic Italian trio in Italy in 1985
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis: Blutopia
In a largely avant-garde setting, one player, drummer Johnny Hunter, hints at something close to a rarefied strain of swing
Dara Starr Tucker: Dara Starr Tucker
The American singer's soulful but undemonstrative style conveys a sincerity that might find her a place in today's saturated jazz scene
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Trevor Tomkins’ Sextant: For Future Reference
Previously unreleased music from the late British drummer, effectively his leader debut, features Jimmy Hastings, John Horler and Phil Lee
Rex Stewart: Trumpet In Spades
While inevitably influenced by Armstrong, the trumpeter quietly carved out his own style, heard here in a selection from 1930-1959
Pat Healy: Sings Just Before Dawn
Fresh Sound brings another briefly prominent but high-quality singer back to our attention, simultaneously shining light on early Paul Bley
Jacob Anderskov: Emerald
Sextet including cello and viola produces music of brooding intensity that reminds on occasion of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble
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