absurdity and death whenever he drops a tab ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

JLU

Julian Joseph presents the second instalment of 'Shakespeare Songs' a concert set by saxophonist Andy Sheppard and pianist Guillaume de Chassey performing music inspired by characters from William Shakespeare's plays and poems. Recorded on the Jazz Line-Up stage at the 2014 London Jazz Festival , their music makes bold use of colour, space, melody, and dynamics drawing inspiration from Renaissance composers Thomas Morley and William Byrd

no pbi

Geoffrey does us no favours with an unlisted set of tracks from Buddy Rich [ugh]

Jon3

feature Led Bib:

Performing music from their latest record "The People in Your Neighbourhood", Holub is joined by the twin altos of Pete Grogan and Chris Williams who take the lead in anthemic melodies and urgent improvisations, whilst powerhouse bassist Liran Donin and keys player Toby McLaren propel the band through heavy riffing and angular, psychedelic excursions.

[Serial_Apologist]

Led Bib are to be praised for keeping their line-up consistent for their decade-long existence: the energetic twin-alto front line was a latter-day equivalent to a Trevor Watts and Elton Dean team up at the Duke of Wellington in Dalston back in the 1980s, and it will be instructive to see how they've evolved.

Listening just a mo ago to Andy Sheppard's set at the LJF last November leaves me with the feeling that one pays as much for his musical personality - a to be vaunted property in today's clone-crowded world of jazz sax - as for anything else: it is arguably what rescues it as jazz in his case. At least the Renaissance musical influences weren't pastiches, unlike the dire piano trios earlier played, the likes of which there is an excess nowadays. As someone remarks in the comments section of an article Calum has linked in the thread he has started on inequality, why design a house in the style of Adam when we don't design cars to look like sedan chairs!