The free jazz and improvised music scenes in Europe, including UK, are so strong that it is sometimes easy to neglect the fact that the movement into freedom in jazz began in the USA with Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Cecil [...]
Edinburgh’s Playtime Collective is venturing into international live-streaming sessions with its latest programme of concerts. Prevented from streaming from their temporary home in Pathhead Village Hall due to Covid-19 restrictions, the core Playtime quartet of saxophonist Martin Kershaw, guitarist Graeme [...]
To my knowledge no one has ever made Soft Machine their specialist subject in the 45 series so far of Mastermind. Which is a shame, given the potential for head-scratching generated by a Soft Machine family tree that’s vaster, more [...]
Adventurous drummer Will Glaser neatly sidesteps the repertoire problem that trips up lots of emerging players. This cleverly programmed trio set relies neither on the leader’s own new compositions nor on a selection of over-familiar standards. Instead we have a [...]
