Topic: Guy Barker
Herbie Hancock, admirably well-preserved at 70, is much like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. His latest festival shows are based on The Imagine Project, a shameless crossover album featuring songs by John Lennon, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Last night's ...
With her cane and dark glasses, not to mention voluminous hair, pencil skirt and red heels, Melody Gardot looked like a damaged vamp from a Raymond Chandler novel. At 19, the Philadelphia fashion student was knocked from her bicycle by a Jeep ...
You don't have to be a sinner to be moved a mile by Take Six. Ultra-deep bass Alvin Chea, baritone David Thomas, tenor Claude McKnight and the high-flying Kibble brothers started out by singing a little gospel together just for fun ...
There are times when listening to Guy Barker's world-class big band makes you think you've stumbled into an allnighter showing old Bogart and Bacall movies. Tonight's opener was the Amadeus Suite, a richly orchestrated set of jazz speculations on ...
Clark Tracey, the British hard-bop drummer, learned two big lessons from US percussion legend Art Blakey when their groups shared shows at Ronnie Scott's in the 1980s. Blakey kept reshuffling his lineups, discovering and losing hot new players, then starting all ...
The bullish, combative and lengendary Art Blakey ... During the interval, Barker reminded me of the influence the legendary Pittsburgh musician Art Blakey had had on Tracey, both as a drummer and as a bandleader whose signature quality was uncanny talent-spotting, coupled with ...
As a belated 50th birthday present, trumpeter-composer Guy Barker was given the freedom of Ronnie Scott's, a mandate to come up with something different every night this week. " On display last night was the international 16-piece orchestra featured in The Amadeus ...
Craig David shows signs of interest again with a new album, while Duran Duran continue to churn out their funky brand of dance pop.. POP Craig David Trust Me (Warner Bros) *** The two mediocre albums that followed his peerless debut, Born To ...
Bucking the US superstar trend, the Proms took a gamble on British jazz royalty last night and honoured Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine instead. The music, as Cleo quipped with typical candour, was "mostly pieces from Shakespeare and All That ...
