Wednesday 29 November 2017

Bruno Heinen All You Need To Know


Photo by Carlotta Cardana

Bruno Heinen is a London based contemporary improvising pianist, composer and educator.
Bruno has released five albums under his own name on the forward looking Babel Label :

Twinkle Twinkle
Tierkries
Postcard to Bill Evans
Changing of the Seasons
Common Spaces


Bruno has worked with artists such as Reem Kelani, Julian Siegel, Jean Toussaint, Julian Arguelles, Pete Saberton, Emilia Martensson, Fulvio Sigurta, Rachael Cohen, Antonio Fusco, and Heidi Vogel amongst others.


He has performed in venues and festivals including the South Bank Centre, Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, the Vortex Jazz Club, the Shanghai World Music Festival, the London Jazz Festival, the Cork Jazz Festival, the Rest Is Noise Festival, Cadogan Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. He has had his music played on BBC radio 3, Jazz LineUp, Late Junction, BBC6 Music, BBC Scotland, in Austria, Canada, and the USA, as well as giving live broadcasts and interviews for the BBC.

Bruno studied classical piano at the Royal College of music with the then head of keyboard Andrew Ball and then went on to win prizes from the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Countess of Munster Trust to take his Jazz masters at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied under the late, inspirational pianist John Taylor. Bruno was asked to stay on at the Guildhall as a Junior Fellow where he completed a Masters of Musical Performance under the guidance of the great Pete Saberton.


He is currently researching towards a practice-based PhD at the RNCM with the title:

Counterpoint in jazz piano with specific relation to the solo work of Fred Hersch

As a composer, Bruno has written for groups ranging from sextet to two piano’s and percussion (for a project with the late Pete Saberton), and from big band to classical string ensemble. In 2009, Bruno was nominated for the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Composers Award.


Bruno has a longstanding musical partnership with the outstanding Palestinian singer, composer and broadcaster Reem Kelani. Together they have played all over the world in concert halls, festivals and live broadcasts. Please see Reem's website for more details.


Track Listings for The Crazeology Radio Show 25th November 2017

Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio show dated 25th November 2017.  A link to the show can be found here: 



The Crazeology Radio Show - 25/11/2017
Gary Meek
What Happened To My Good Shoes
Hans Ludemanns Rooms 
 Dark Lights
Carvela
 Verde Àgua
Hermeto Pascoal
 DANCA DO PAJE
Wolfgang Hafner
 Pasodoble
Hilario Duram
 Contumbao
Roscoe Mitchell
 I'll See You Out There
Trio Kontraszt
 Hesitated Elakadozós
Nicole Willis & UMO Orchestra
 Together We Climb
BRUNO HEINEN & KRISTIAN BORRING
 POSTCARD TO BILL EVANS
Bruno Heinen Interview
 Part 1
BRUNO HEINEN & KRISTIAN BORRING
 POSTCARD TO BILL EVANS
Bruno Heinen Interview
 Part 2
BRUNO HEINEN SEXTET
 KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN TIERKREIS
Bruno Heinen Interview
 Part 3
BRUNO HEINEN SEXTET
 KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN TIERKREIS
Bruno Heinen Interview
 Part 4
BRUNO HEINEN & KRISTIAN BORRING
 POSTCARD TO BILL EVANS

Track Listings for The Boogie Wonderland Show 23rd November 2017

Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 23rd November 2017. A link to the show can be found here:


The Boogie Wonderland Show - 23/11/2017 Playlist
Allan Harris & Perpetual Motion
 Get Ready
Dazz Band
 Let It Whip
Arts & Craft
I've Been Searching (Re
Don Rader
 Don't Touch  (Carvery Mastered)
Exodus
 Together Forever
John Lee & Gerry Brown
 Infinite Jones
John Thomas & Lifeforce
  Maryke
The Brothers
 Under The Skin
Alfredo De La Fe
 Hot To Trot
BRUNO HEINEN & KRISTIAN BORRING
 POSTCARD TO BILL EVANS
Bruno Heinen Interview
 Part 1
BRUNO HEINEN & KRISTIAN BORRING
 POSTCARD TO BILL EVANS
Bruno Heinen Interview
 Part 2
BRUNO HEINEN SEXTET
 KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN TIERKREIS
Bruno Heinen Interview
 Part 3
BRUNO HEINEN SEXTET
 KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN TIERKREIS
Bruno Heinen Interview
 Part 4
BRUNO HEINEN & KRISTIAN BORRING
 POSTCARD TO BILL EVANS
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Wednesday 22 November 2017

The Ghost Train Orchestra All You Need to Know


Photograph by D.L. Anderson


"This is an amazing ensemble, playing music like no others these days. There hasn’t been big band music as exciting as this since forever...GTO is creating its own electrifying musical gold." - Andrew Velez, New York City Jazz Record.


"Carpenter leads a suberb band of New York-based vanguardists and while most of the solos ditch period authenticity and employ a vocabulary that contains ideas from the next 90 years of jazz history, his sharp arrangements retain the contrapuntal flash, sweet voicings, and fiery rhythms of the original era..." -- Peter Margasak, Downbeat'


The Ghost Train Orchestra was founded in 2006 by composer/arranger Brian Carpenter. That year Carpenter was hired as the musical director for an event marking the 90th anniversary of the historic Regent Theater in Boston. He rediscovered music from a transitional time and place in America: the late 1920s Chicago and Harlem, when the jazz orchestra was being developed by bandleaders such as Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Tiny Parham, Fess Williams, and Charlie Johnson. Carpenter began transcribing the parts from old 78s and arranged the music for a 9-piece ensemble to back performers on stage. The reaction to the band's debut at the Regent was tremendous, and since then the band has performed regularly in New York City, home of all its members except the leader, a Boston resident. In 2008, Carpenter arranged the music with added strings, voice, and musical saw, and the following year recorded the band in New York City at Avatar Studios with engineer/producer Danny Blume. The result of this work accumulated in Hothouse Stomp released in 2011.


The debut record Hothouse Stomp achieved widespread critical acclaim and reached the top 10 of the Billboard Jazz charts in the weeks following Carpenter's spot on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The band has performed at the Chicago Jazz Festival, NY Winter JazzFest, Mass MoCA, Museum of Modern Art, John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The Ghost Train Orchestra released their second Book of Rhapsodies in 2013, featuring wild new arrangements of "chamber jazz" from the mid-to-late 1930s. Their third record Hot Town featuring saxophonist Colin Stetson made several top ten lists in 2015. They are currently working on their fourth record, a follow-up to Book of Rhapsodies with a six-person choir and a 12-piece orchestra.



Track Listings for The Crazeology Radio Show 18th November 2017

Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio show dated 18th November 2017.  A link to the show can be found here: 



The Crazeology Radio Show - 18/11/2017
Stooges Brass Band
 Wind It Up
The Jazz At The Lincoln Centre Orchestra
 Very Early
Kyle Eastwood
 Rockin Ronnies
Lee Morgan
 Suspended Sentence
Leroi Conroy
 Enter
Rez Abbasi
Dance Number
Simon Millerd
Looking Back
Teemu Viinikainen III
  JS
Run n' Fly
 Daughter of Cain
Ghost Train Orchestra
Confusion Among a Fleet of Taxi Cabs
Ghost Train Orchestra
Deep Forest
Ghost Train Orchestra Interview
 Part 1
Ghost Train Orchestra
Deserted Ballroom
Ghost Train Orchestra
Fantasy Impromptu
Ghost Train Orchestra Interview
 Part 2
Ghost Train Orchestra
Hare and the Hounds
Ghost Train Orchestra
Kindergarten Flower Pageant
Ghost Train Orchestra Interview
 Part 3
Ghost Train Orchestra
Pedigree on a Pomander Walk
Ghost Train Orchestra Interview
 Part 4
Ghost Train Orchestra
Walking Home in Spring
Ghost Train Orchestra
A Little Girl Grows Up
Jazzmix
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Track Listings for The Boogie Wonderland Show 16th November 2017

Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 16th November 2017. A link to the show can be found here:




The Boogie Wonderland Show - 16/11/2017 Playlist
Rare Pleasure
 Let Me Down Easy
Omni
 Out Of My Hands (Love's Taken Over) Long Version
LYoung131026 Drop

Al Hudson & The Soul Partners
 Spread Love
The Love Symphony Orchestra
 Let Me Be Your Fantasy
Daisy Hicks
 I Chose You (Ruff Diamond remix)
Will Downing
 Hurry Up This Way Again
Decosta Boyce
 Good Music (Soulpersona G
ANDINA
 La Mecedora
Barbara Tucker
Think (about it) (DJ Spen Thommy Davis & Gary Hudgins)
Roy Haynes
Quiet Fire
Ghost Train Orchestra
Confusion Among a Fleet of Taxi Cabs
Ghost Train Orchestra
Deep Forest
Ghost Train Orchestra Interview
 Part 1
Ghost Train Orchestra
Deserted Ballroom
Ghost Train Orchestra
Fantasy Impromptu
Ghost Train Orchestra Interview
 Part 2
Ghost Train Orchestra
Hare and the Hounds
Ghost Train Orchestra
Kindergarten Flower Pageant
Ghost Train Orchestra Interview
 Part 3
Ghost Train Orchestra
Pedigree on a Pomander Walk
Ghost Train Orchestra Interview
 Part 4
Ghost Train Orchestra
Walking Home in Spring
Ghost Train Orchestra
A Little Girl Grows Up
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