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February 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Tania Giannouli Trio: In Fading Light

Tania Giannouli Trio In Fading Light Rattle Greek pianist, composer and improviser Tania Giannouli has been part of the Rattle family for a decade now – this is her fourth release with the imprint, beginning with 2012’s Forest Stories and moving through 2015’s Transcendence on to a set of musical dialogues with Rob Thorne. Her […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Andreas Pplyzogopoulos, Greece, Greek, In Fading Light, Jazz, Kyriakos Tapakis, Oud, Piano, Rattle, Tania Giannouli, Tania Giannouli Trio, Tania Giannouli Trio: In Fading Light, Trio, Trumpet, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Charles Tolliver: Connect

Charles Tolliver Connect Gearbox Records This is Charles Tolliver’s first album in over a decade. He takes his time – in both the amount he releases and when shown a spotlight, his solos unfolding in a land of golden groove rather than dizzyingly worrying a room. So though this brand new record that was captured […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Binker Golding, Buster Williams, Charles Tolliver, Charles Tolliver: Connect, Connect, Gearbox Records, Jazz, Jesse Davis, Keith Brown, Lenny White, Trumpet, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 203: Dave Armstrong

Welcome to episode 203 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]
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June 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Andrew Cyrille: Lebroba

Andrew Cyrille  Lebroba  ECM  This is Andrew Cyrille’s album – in that he’s the leader, his name is at the top, but the legendary jazz drummer is working here with two other stalwarts of the ECM label, Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) and Bill Frisell (guitar). It’s truly a trio album and magic happens here – it being the first time all three have […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Andrew Cyrille, Andrew Cyrille: Lebroba, Bill Frisell, Drums, ECM, Guitar, Instrumental, Jazz, Lebroba, Miles Davis, Trumpet, Veterans, Wadada Leo Smith, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 26 – Chet Baker

I can’t remember when I first heard Chet Baker but I’ve been a fan for a while. A long time. Feels like he’s just been there forever. My whole life. But I would have been a teenager before I first heard him knowingly. And then it was all in. And it’s still the way. Currently […]
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August 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Skjold/Højensgård Project (feat. Tyshawn Sorey): Human Maybe EP

Skjold/Højensgård Project (feat. Tyshawn Sorey) Human Maybe (ep) (Independent) Claus Højensgård (trumpet and keys) and Jeppe Skjold (saxophone) – from the extended line-up of the Danish collective, Hess Is More, breakaway here for a two-track ep featuring American free-jazz wunderkind Tyshawn Sorey.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Claus Højensgård, Danish, Denmark, Drums, EP, Free, Free Jazz, Human Maybe, Human Maybe (ep), Keys, Saxophone, Skjold/Højensgård Project, Skjold/Højensgård Project (feat. Tyshawn Sorey), Skjold/Højensgård Project (feat. Tyshawn Sorey): Human Maybe EP, Trumpet, Tyshawn Sorey ·

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July 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Arve Henriksen: Towards Language

Arve Henriksen Towards Language Rune Grammofon The calligraphic waft of Arve Henriksen’s trumpet is its own woozy, ethereal fug – through his horn and with his occasional vocalisations he has, over a double-handful of records (recording prolifically) created his own language – an ambient-jazz that is all at once hypnotic and yet hard to grasp. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Arve Henriksen: Towards Language, Brian Eno, Erik Honore, Jazz, Jon Hassell, Norway, Places of Worship, Rune Grammofon, The Nature of Connections, Towards Language, Trumpet ·

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July 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Born To Be Blue: Film

Born To Be Blue Director: Robert Budreau New Real Films/Lumanity Productions/Black Hangar Studios This impressionistic biopic of Chet Baker largely succeeds where the other recent impressionistic biopic of a legendary jazz trumpeter was just ludicrous, insulting, absurd. So why does Born To Be Blue work? For a start it actually makes sense. Miles Ahead played […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Biopic, Born To Be Blue: Film, Chet Baker, Ethan Hawke, Film, Film Review, Heroin, Jazz, Movie, Robert Budreau, Trumpet, Vocalist ·

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July 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Miles Ahead: Film

Miles Ahead Director: Don Cheadle Bifrost Pictures/Miles Davis Properties, LLC/Sony Pictures Classics In a boldly absurd almost blindly idiotic move Don Cheadle decides to simply invent a story for his Miles Davis impersonation. Here we have Cheadle as a more than passable Miles (not as great as some would tell you, but certainly as decent […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Biopic, Don Cheadle, Ewan McGr, Fiction, Film, Film Review, Impressionistic, Jazz, Miles Ahead, Miles Davis, Movie, Movie Review, Sony, Trumpet ·

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June 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence

Avishai Cohen Into The Silence ECM Not to be confused with the bass-player Avishai Cohen this is the latest album by the trumpeter Avishai Cohen. It’s an elegiac set of reflections on the passing of his father. The band is phenomenal and so deeply respectful towards the material and so aware of each other’s playing […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Avishai Cohen, Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence, Bill McHenry, Chet Baker, Eric Revis, In A Silent Way, Into The Silence, Jazz, Mike Figgis, Miles Davis, Nashee Waits, Requiem, The Necks, Trumpet, Wayne Shorter, Yonathan Avishai ·

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October 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Alexis French: The Cut

Alexis French The Cut Rattle/Ode Alexis French is a Kiwi trumpeter recently graduated from jazz school in Montreal – his album, The Cut features Canadian players with French taking the lead. His horn offers a stately presence on ballad The Second Fall and combines nicely with David Bellemare’s tenor saxophone for some post-bop lines but […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Alexis French, David Bellemare, Jazz, Nicholas Ferron, Ode, Rattle, The Cut, Trumpet ·

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November 17, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Arve Henriksen: Places of Worship

Arve Henriksen Places of Worship Rune Grammofon It would be hard to find a more profoundly moving musical experience captured on disc this year. Okay, the obvious thing to mention is The Necks’ Open, and though that sprawls as one long piece, where Places of Worship, is most certainly song/mood-based (10 relatively short pieces) there is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Arve Henriksen, Places of Worship, The Necks, Trumpet ·

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