Month: November 2018

1 November 2018

Album Review: Lorraine Baker’s Eden – Spark!

Lorraine Baker’s Eden Spark! (Spark006)   Here’s something new – a young drummer leading a tribute to veteran New Orleans sticksman Ed Blackwell, with a band that features streetwise new-thing iconoclast Binker Golding alongside long-established, critically acclaimed pianist and mentor Liam Noble, with feisty newcomer Paul Michael providing tough, imagnative basslines and credited with key […]

1 November 2018

Album Review: Hexagonal – McCoy and Mseleku

Hexagonal McCoy & Mseleku (Hexagonal Records – HRCD101)   John Donaldson’s piano style – dynamic, exciting, heavy with dense left hand chording and furious pentatonic runs –  has drawn comparisons with that of McCoy Tyner, and he worked extensively with maverick South African pianist/composer Mseleku before the latter’s untimely death. Ensconced in his Hastings stronghold, […]

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