I saw Barnes/Newton in duo this Summer. Superb - and they make it look so effortless. Plus you get the added bonus of Alan Barnes’ repartee between numbers. I don’t think Dave Newton says a lot !
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Both these are recently released and wonderful recommendations
Shadowland by Scott Hamilton & Jan Lundgren is a masterpiece. I am anyway a fan of Scandinavian Jazz so the Arne Domnerus one is almost a no-brainer
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Discovered this nicely curated site. Recording quality gets a mention too.
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Benny Golson RIP. What a life and one of the last of that illustrious jazz generation that came up in the 1950s.
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Master bassist Dave Hollands favorite album.[quote=“IvdZ, post:7120, topic:2050, full:true”]
Recommended !
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I have a read every week. I have no interest in the technicalities of vinyl but he knows his siht as does The Jazz Shepherd on YouTube. He will guide you through every jazz record on vinyl ever released. His presentation is an acquired taste but his knowledge is irrefutable.
Yes, a bit too discursive for me.
Just getting to the end of this book about the UK Jazz scene
It is well written and is an interesting read, with lots of short interviews with people mostly around the new London Jazz scene. The fact is it does not concern anything outside of the M25, and concentrates on the group of musicians that gravitate around the Tomorrow’s Warriors, such as Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings and Moses Boyd, is a limitation. It’s left of center viewpoint is a bit grating at times too.
Would have been more interesting had some of the White faces, such as Rob Luft, Laura Jurd, and by current favourite Jasmine Myra, been mentioned.
But if you are interested in current Jazz music, in the UK, it is one of the very few books available that can give some insights into what is happening in Jazz now. “Playing Changes”, a US slanted book on current Jazz, by Nate Chinen is also worth digging out.
There are hundreds of books about the sixties legends such as Coltrane and Davis, but nothing seems to be written about contemporary Jazz.
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To write a book like that and not include musicians based in e.g. Bristol, Birmingham and Newcastle and their respective local scenes is a huge omission IMO and very biased. I’ll pass !
Omitting the likes of Luft, Jurd et al totally negates its credibility as a meaningful study. It’s about time that the quality of the music and performances was the key determinant to musical worth, not identity politics.
I’d come to that opinion just perusing a shop copy but your report confirms it. Cheers !
Not to mention the Manchester Leeds scene.
It does have some interesting food for thought though, on current Jazz in general.
Yes, identity politics does creep in somewhat and having read the Bio’s of players like Garcia (daughter of middle class professionals), the thrust of the book that presents this group of musicians as a product of London’s Council Estates, left me with the idea that a lot had been left out, about the musical education of these players, many of whom it seems attended London’s best Conservatories.
You need to read it carefully to cut through the BS.
The over-intellectualisation of a lot of contemporary jazz is correctly called out though.
Thank you.
Qobuzed and purchased from Discogs.
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Glad you like it. 
