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Andy Hamilton

Durham

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  • 2 weeks ago | jazzjournal.co.uk | Andy Hamilton

    In 2023, Swedish bassist and composer Vilhelm Bromander released his new big band’s debut album. That ensemble now takes its name from the recording – Unfolding Orchestra. Their second album Jorden Vi Ärvde (“The Earth We Inherited”) reflects on the state of our planet. Compositions and arrangements are by Bromander, who draws on Indian dhrupad music, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra and Keith Jarrett’s classic American quartet with Haden, Dewey Redman and Paul Motian.

  • 3 weeks ago | jazzjournal.co.uk | Andy Hamilton

    Ricky Riccardi, Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York, began his trilogy of biographies with the intention of reappraising Armstrong’s later work. Hence his first volume was What A Wonderful World: The Magic Of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years. The second volume, Heart Full Of Rhythm: The Big Band Years Of Louis Armstrong, covers 1929-46. Finally, Riccardi has turned to Armstrong’s early career, up to 1929.

  • 4 weeks ago | jazzjournal.co.uk | Andy Hamilton

    American pianist-composer Russ Lossing has led his own bands in New York since 1986, and worked with such masters as Paul Motian and Tim Berne. In 2023 his band King Vulture released Alternate Side Parking Music, featuring frenetic rhythms and acidulous Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos. His beautiful latest album Inventions reflects a change of scene and mood.

  • 1 month ago | jazzjournal.co.uk | Andy Hamilton

    Pianist-composer Jim Doherty’s octet album was recorded in 1986 with close friends Louis Stewart (guitar) and Bobby Shew (trumpet). The band features the finest Los Angeles musicians – Bob Sheppard: alto, Gordon Brisker: tenor, Randy Aldcroft: trombone, Tom Warrington: bass, and Billy Mintz: drums. The pianist is a veteran of the Irish jazz scene, who also worked as a session musician and composer/arranger for TV and theatre.

  • Mar 4, 2025 | jazzjournal.co.uk | Andy Hamilton

    New York City based American pianist and composer Russ Lossing has a singular musical vision that makes him a musician’s musician. That means that he is not a populist, and remains little-known beyond his coterie of admirers. Maybe he’d agree with Jim Hall, that if someone had asked him to sell out, he would have – but I think that like Hall, he’s an ironist. You have to be to make a living in our cultural world, without selling out.

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