Steve Harris

Sort By: Post Date | Title | Publish Date
Jazz (January 2019)
Jazz
Steve Harris  |  Mar 06, 2019  |  0 comments
This month we review: Christian Sands, Lionel Loueke, Shai Maestro, & Massimiliano Coclite 4tet
Continue Reading >
Jazz (December 2018)
Jazz
Steve Harris  |  Dec 01, 2018  |  0 comments
This month we review: Wayne Shorter, Camilla George, All About That Basie, and Omar Sosa & Yilian Cañizares
Continue Reading >
Opinion: Trouble in store?
Opinion
Steve Harris  |  Dec 01, 2018  |  0 comments
We have a hundred more record shops than we did in 2009, thanks to the efforts of those who run the stores and events like Record Store Day. But don’t celebrate just yet, warns Steve Harris
Continue Reading >
Valves: ready to roll?
Investigation
Steve Harris  |  Dec 01, 2018  |  Published: Feb 12, 2019  |  0 comments
Thinking about tweaking your valve amp by swapping out the tubes? Steve Harris has the inside track on the payoffs and pitfalls of tube rolling…
Continue Reading >
Jazz (November 2018)
Jazz
Steve Harris  |  Nov 01, 2018  |  0 comments
This month we review: Soft Machine, Bansangu Orchestra, Tony Kofi and The Organisation, and New York All-Stars.
Continue Reading >
Jazz (October 2018)
Jazz
Steve Harris  |  Oct 01, 2018  |  0 comments
This month we review: John Coltrane, Tony Kofi and The Organisation, Bansangu Orchestra, and Mark Kavuma.
Continue Reading >
Jazz (September 2018)
Jazz
Steve Harris  |  Sep 01, 2018  |  0 comments
This month we review: Stefano Bollani, Timo Lassy, Renee Rosnes, and Andreas Varady
Continue Reading >
Keith Jarrett/charlie Haden
Jazz
Steve Harris  |  Sep 06, 2014  |  0 comments
Last Dance - ECM 378 0524 In 2007, when they hadn’t worked together for 30 years, pianist and bassist met during the making of a film about Haden, and Jarrett invited Haden to his home studio. They spent four days recording, and some of the results were heard on the 2010 album Jasmine. In this new collection, tunes include the jazz standards ‘Dance Of The Infidels’ by Bud Powell and Monk’s ‘’Round Midnight’ as well as ballads like ‘My Old Flame’. With a second album celebrating the same reunion, you’ll think that you’re in for more of the same, and it’s true.
Continue Reading >
Colin Towns Hr Big Band
Jazz
Steve Harris  |  Dec 10, 2010  |  0 comments
Even given the prodigious talents and open-minded approach of the Hessischer Rundfunk orchestra, you’d think it would be impossible to arrange whole tracks from Miles Davis’ 1970s/80s electric music for big band. But that’s really not what heavy-metal guru turned film composer Colin Towns set out to do. Instead, he pulled out suitable themes and fragments and developed them for the band to work with, though you do hear more complete interpretations of ‘In A Silent Way’ and ‘Tutu’. And, against the expected backdrops of heavy rock beat, funky bass and period wah-wah guitar, he really gives the stellar HR soloists something to run with.
Continue Reading >
Stacey Kent
Jazz
Steve Harris  |  Dec 10, 2010  |  0 comments
A Francophile who loves to sing in French, Stacey Kent had a big following across La Manche even before Breakfast On The Morning Tram helped her popularity explode in 2007. So why shouldn’t she do a whole French album? She chose songs associated with the greats of French pop from Moustaki and Misraki to Biolay and Barbara, most just as catchy as ‘La Venus Du Melo’, now also issued as a single. As before, pianist Graham Harvey on piano and guitarist John Parricelli join Kent’s sax-playing husband Jim Tomlinson to play his uncluttered, mood-enhancing arrangements. Hearing Parricelli and Tomlinson on ‘C’est Le Printemps’, they might as well be Byrd and Getz.
Continue Reading >

Pages

X