Jim Barr

Strangeness Oscillation

By Larry Stabbins

Label: Noetic Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: First Idea Part One; Bass Clarinet One; Bad Ass; Ade's Tune; Two Base Flute; Drum And Sax; Trichotomy Book; First Idea Part Two.

137: Strangeness Oscillation

by Chris May
July 17, 2024

More comebacks than Sinatra? Well, not really, given that this is the first one, but the return of the beyond-category British saxophonist and flautist Larry Stabbins after an eleven-year absence is headline news. In 2013, Stabbins (a.k.a. Stonephace) very publicly announced that he was beyond disgusted with the music business in general and the jazz business ...

Pallett

By Get The Blessing

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Oscillation Ochre; Heavy Water (French Grey); Vongole Verdigris; Dry Brush Blue; S?o Pedro Gold; Ambient Black; Dude Indigo; Small Star Of The Big Silver; Temperate Red.

Get The Blessing: Pallett

by Neil Duggan
December 15, 2023

Many artists describe their music as aural paintings. Bristol band Get The Blessing take that idea to the next level with their seventh studio album, Pallett. The album cover features a paint by numbers drawing of a wooden pallet to colour in (the limited-edition vinyl comes complete with wax crayons) and all the tracks are named ...

Get the Blessing Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
July 1, 2019

Get the Blessing can be placed among a number of bands innovating British jazz with contemporary rock, dance and hip-hop influences, like Portico Quartet, BadBadNotGood and GoGo Penguin. The infectious beats of this Bristol-based foursome come from bassist Jim Barr and drummer Clive Deamer, rhythm section of the legendary trip-hop act Portishead. Deamer is also live ...

Brilliant Corners 2019

by Ian Patterson
March 19, 2019

Brilliant Corners 2019 The Black Box/Sonic Lab Belfast, N. Ireland March 2-9, 2019 For many years the words brilliant, jazz and Belfast rarely appeared in the same sentence. That all changed in 2013 when music promoters Moving On Music launched Brilliant Corners, subtitled A Festival of Jazz in Belfast. Since then, ...

Alfa Jazz Fest 2017

by Thomas Conrad
July 11, 2017

Alfa Jazz Fest 2017 Lviv, Ukraine June 23-27, 2017 Jazz festivals are different in Europe. There are more of them, and they are crucial to the economic viability, social solidarity and creative evolution of the jazz art form. Many European towns that host their own annual jazz events seem like ...

Eyebrow: Garden City

by Bruce Lindsay
January 23, 2015

Mention the idea of the “garden city" to the good people of Britain and the likeliest (polite) response will be “Welwyn" or perhaps “Letchworth." Bristol, home to Eyebrow, isn't such a settlement but Garden City is the name the duo has given to its fourth album release. Pete Judge and Paul Wigens formed Eyebrow ...

Tammy Payne: Viva Outsider

by Bruce Lindsay
December 5, 2014

Viva Outsider is Tammy Payne's first album under her own name: original songs that mix blues, folk, jazz and soul influences together to create a stunning collection.Payne emerged in the early '90s, recording a superb cover of Deniece Williams' “Free" and the dance hit “Take Me Now." She's recorded sporadically since then, with bands ...