Thursday 29 March 2018

Eyolf Dale All You Need To Know


Norwegian pianist and composer, Eyolf Dale (b.1985) is known from both his solo work, successful collaborations with a great number of jazz artists, and from renowned bands like  Eyolf Dale's Wolf Valley ,  Albatrosh ,  Daniel Herskedal ,  Hayden Powell Trio ,  Trondheim Jazz Orchestra , and more. He is active on the European jazz scene as a touring and frequently recorded artist, and since his solo debut in 2011, Dale has established himself as one of the leading pianists of his generation.

Both as a sideman and a solo performer, he has performed all over Europe, as well as tours in the USA, Japan and China. Dale's solo work shows the mature lyrical introspection that is often associated with Norwegian jazz, but equally there is an explorative curiosity and restless free elements that are becoming an emerging hallmark of the younger Nordic improvisers.





He was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy equivalent, the Game Man Prize both in 2013 and 2016 for his solo albums. With the duo Albatrosh, he was awarded "Young jazz musicians of the year 2008" in the prestigious JazzIntro, and the duo was also awarded "Best Band" in European Jazz Competition in 2010 (North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam)
 
Dale currently releases his solo work exclusively on Edition Records.



Track Listings for Crazeology Radio Show 24th March 2018


Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio Show dated 24th March 2018. A link to the show can be found here:





The Crazeology Radio Show - 24/03/2018
Koichi Matsukaze Trio   Earth Mother02
Kiyoshi Sugimoto   Long Neal02
Mitsuaki Katayma   Unknown Point02
George Otsuka   Sea Breeze02
Karashima Fumio   Little Island02
Shintaro Quintet   A Blind Man02
Eoylf Dale    Soaring
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 1
Eoylf Dale    Woody
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 2
Eoylf Dale   Midsomer Gardens
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 3
Eoylf Dale   Return to Mind
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 4
Eoylf Dale   The Mayor
Eoylf Dale    Naurak
Jazzmix  240318
David Davis  Dig This!

Track Listings for The Boogie Wonderland Show 22nd March 2018


Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 22nd March 2018. A link to the show can be found here:




The Boogie Wonderland Show - 22/03/2018 Playlist
Diana Ross   Tenderness
Hi Tension   Hi Tension
OHIO   Players Reset
Tom Browne   Funkin for Jamaica (v2)
Tata Vega   Just Keep Thinking About You Baby
Barry White   Im Gonna Love you Just A Little Bit
Crown Heights Affair   Dance Lady Dance
Eoylf Dale    Soaring
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 1
Eoylf Dale    Woody
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 2
Eoylf Dale   Midsomer Gardens
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 3
Eoylf Dale   Return to Mind
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 4
Eoylf Dale   The Mayor
Eoylf Dale    Naurak
Jazzmix  240318
David Davis  Dig This!

Friday 23 March 2018

Elliot Galvin All You Need To Know




"He reminds me of the young Django Bates, and the impression Django made on me in the 1980s – great improv chops, strong character as a player and a composer, evident love of the jazz tradition without wanting to repeat the past, very English sense of humor. He’s the kind of artist you always want to stay tuned in to, because you know he’s going to keep on coming up with surprises." - John Fordham (The Guardian)


Elliot Galvin is one of the rising stars of UK jazz. A superbly gifted composer and pianist, whose maverick imagination and magpie like ability to blend a disparate world of influences into his own unique musical vision has seen him compared to Django Bates although in truth he sounds like no one except himself. From de-constructing standards to creating his own mirco-tonal melodica, Galvin’s music is both playful and deadly serious, drawing on a wide range of influences from Keith Jarrett to Stravinsky, Ligeti, Deerhoof and the Beatles as well as the films of David Lynch, the Dada movement and the literature of James Joyce. He was a founding member of the Chaos Collective and a regular collaborator with Laura Jurd, he also plays in a free improve duo with Mark Sanders.
  
Elliot is a prolific composer and has been comissioned by a number of Ensembles, Dance Companies, Theatre Groups and Festivals including the London Sinfonietta, Ligeti String Quartet, St. John Smith’s Square, The London Jazz festival, The RESOLUTION! Dance Festival at The Place and the Theatre Company Cut Tongues. He works regularly with multi-media and in 2014 put on a multi-media installation piece at the Turner Contemporary Gallery, which consisted of live performance, interactive sound sculptures and film. He also runs a multi-disciplinary theatre-music ensemble called the Vanderbilts. But his main artistic vehicle is the Elliot Galvin Trio.



The Elliot Galvin Trio
  
In 2014 The Elliot Galvin Trio were announced as the winners of the European Young Jazz Artist of the Year Award in Germany. That same year they released their debut album ‘Dreamland’ to rave reviews, with the Guardian calling it “audaciously accomplished” ****, Jez Nelson (BBC Radio 3, Jazz on 3) saying it was “Perhaps one of the strongest debuts that I’ve heard from a UK artist in a long while… extremely bold and progressive” and The German Jazz Magazine ‘JazzThing’ naming it as one of it’s albums of the year.



Track Listings for Crazeology Radio Show 17th March 2018


Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio Show dated17th March 2018. A link to the show can be found here:




The Crazeology Radio Show - 24/03/2018
Koichi Matsukaze Trio   Earth Mother02
Kiyoshi Sugimoto   Long Neal02
Mitsuaki Katayma   Unknown Point02
George Otsuka   Sea Breeze02
Karashima Fumio   Little Island02
Shintaro Quintet   A Blind Man02
Eoylf Dale    Soaring
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 1
Eoylf Dale    Woody
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 2
Eoylf Dale   Midsomer Gardens
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 3
Eoylf Dale   Return to Mind
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 4
Eoylf Dale   The Mayor
Eoylf Dale    Naurak
Jazzmix  240318
David Davis  Dig This!

Track Listings for The Boogie Wonderland Show 15th March 2018


Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 15th March 2018. A link to the show can be found here:



The Boogie Wonderland Show - 22/03/2018 Playlist
Diana Ross   Tenderness
Hi Tension   Hi Tension
OHIO   Players Reset
Tom Browne   Funkin for Jamaica (v2)
Tata Vega   Just Keep Thinking About You Baby
Barry White   Im Gonna Love you Just A Little Bit
Crown Heights Affair   Dance Lady Dance
Eoylf Dale    Soaring
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 1
Eoylf Dale    Woody
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 2
Eoylf Dale   Midsomer Gardens
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 3
Eoylf Dale   Return to Mind
Eoylf Dale Interview   Part 4
Eoylf Dale   The Mayor
Eoylf Dale    Naurak
Jazzmix  240318
David Davis  Dig This!

Friday 16 March 2018

Josh Nelson All You Need To Know



Born and raised in Southern California pianist-composer-bandleader Josh Nelson has performed with some of the most respected names in jazz, including Kurt Elling, John Pizzarelli, Benny Golson, Sheila Jordan, John Clayton, George Mraz, Jeff Hamilton, Dave Koz, Joe Chambers and Peter Erskine.

Nelson toured with legendary vocalist Natalie Cole for six years and continues to tour with vocalists Gaby Moreno, Freda Payne, Alicia Olatuja, Sara Gazarek, accordionist Richard Galliano, saxophonist Tom Scott, multi-instrumentalist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and violinist Christian Howes. He taught jazz for four years at Soka University and more recently at Cal State University Northridge. In 2006, Nelson was a semi-finalist in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition.


His debut album as a leader,  2004’s Anticipation, garnered attention while his 2007 followup, Let it Go, was hailed by Jazz Times, All About Jazz and Jazz Review as a fully-realized breakthrough album. Nelson’s next album, 2009’s I Hear a Rhapsody, had him re-imagining Jerry Goldsmith’s “Theme From Chinatown,” Jimmy Van Heusen’s “Here’s That Rainy Day” and Elliott Smith’s “Everything Means Nothing To Me” while contributing seven affecting originals.

With 2011’s sci-fi influenced Discoveries, Nelson introduced his Discovery Project, an immersive multi-media presentation combining video, performance art, light and art installations with his original music.

He followed with another ambitious Discovery Project in 2015’s Exploring Mars, which wedded evocative musical themes to spectacular NASA/JPL video footage of the Red Planet.




Nelson’s latest, 2017’s The Sky Remains, is his love letter to Los Angeles. The third in his Discovery Project series, it unearths hidden gems and little-known stories about the composer’s hometown. From the lurid tale behind benefactor and namesake of L.A.’s famous Griffith Park to the sad transition of wondrous Pacific Ocean Park to an eyesore on the beach to the forgotten, bittersweet story of Mack Robinson. A silver medal winner in the 1936 Berlin Olympics (coming in second to Jesse Owens), Mack was also the brother of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and later became a hero in his own right through his civic activism on behalf of the City of Angels. The Sky Remains blends narrative and music in persuasive fashion. Throughout this ambitious outing, Nelson and his talented crew of fellow Angelenos convey sentiment about the city and its treasures while uncovering lost history and acknowledging a few L.A. icons along the way. “I’m definitely in awe of what’s in this city and its quiet history,” says the prolific composer. “Maybe it’s just a product of having been born here, but I’m discovering new things and stories about it that were just sitting right under my nose. And I’m hoping that people who hear these stories might be interested in learning more about the fascinating history of Los Angeles.



Track Listings for Crazeology Radio Show 10th March 2018


Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio Show dated10th March 2018. A link to the show can be found here:


The Crazeology Radio Show - 10/03/2018
Ibrahim Ferrer   El Platanal de Bartolo
Company Segundo   Me Diras Que Sabroso
Monogram Caribbean Orchestra   Calypso Cha Cha For Spooks
Machito   Zambia
Lecouna Cuban Boys   Mosaico
Latin Brothers   Buscandote
Fruko y Sue Tesos   Salsa Brava
Clarence Garlow   New Bon Ton Roulay
Chuz Alfred And His Combo   Caravan
Paul Boyers Band Feat Pattie Parish   Mambo Mambo Baby
Roy Gaines   Alabama Sue
Fraud   Giraffiti
Led Bib   Battery Power
Billy Jenkins   Ronald Reagan
Black Top   Nubian Archaic Step Dub
Josh Nelson   On The Sidewalk
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 1
Josh Nelson  The Architect
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 2
Josh Nelson  The Sky Remains
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 3
Josh Nelson   Ah Los Angeles
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 4
Josh Nelson   Bridges And Tunnels
Jazzmix  8032018
Meshell Ndegeocello   Sometimes It Snows in April

Track Listings for The Boogie Wonderland Show 8th March 2018


Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 8th March 2018. A link to the show can be found here:



The Boogie Wonderland Show - 08/03/2018 Playlist
Django Bates   Little Petherick
John Surman   Autumn Nocturne
Kit Downes   Kings
Andreas Schaerer  Dive
Janne Mark   Pilgrim
Django Bates   The Study of Touch
John Surman   Pitangan Pitomba
Kit Downes   Last Leviathan
Josh Nelson   On The Sidewalk
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 1
Josh Nelson  The Architect
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 2
Josh Nelson  The Sky Remains
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 3
Josh Nelson   Ah Los Angeles
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 4
Josh Nelson   Bridges And Tunnels
Jazzmix  8032018
Meshell Ndegeocello   Sometimes It Snows in April

Friday 9 March 2018

James Brandon Lewis All You Need To Know



Acclaimed Saxophonist & Composer James Brandon Lewis has been described as a Visionary Composer and Tenor saxophonist has received accolades from the New York Times, NPR and Ebony Magazine, who hailed him as one of the “ 7 Young players to Watch in today’s scene”. Lewis has been endorsed by Jazz legend Saxophonist Sonny Rollins  “ Promising young player with the potential to do great things having listened to the Elders”. – Jazz Magazine (France).  Lewis at the request of Rollins participated in a tribute concert honoring the Jazz Legend sharing the stage with Jimmy Heath, Ravi Coltrane, James Carter and many others.




Born In Buffalo, NY James Brandon Lewis began his pursuit of music at the age of 9 and would begin his music studies at the Buffalo Academy for the Visual And Performing Arts exposing him to Jazz Legends such as Dave Brubeck, Doc Severinsen , Local Legends Carol Mclaughlin , and Charlie Parker Alum the great pianist Al Tinney . James Brandon lewis holds a Bachelors Degree from Howard University and a MFA from California Institute of the Arts .



To date James Brandon Lewis has released 4 albums as a leader, 3 achieving critically acclaim. He has toured extensively world wide with his own ensembles, as well as shared the stage, and recorded with amazing musicians such as William Parker, Hamid Drake, Cooper Moore, Jamaaladeen Tacuma , Rudy Royston , Gerald Cleaver ,  Charles Gayle, Dave Douglas , Richard Davis , Weather report Alum Alphonso Johnson , Ravi COltrane, James Carter, Jimmy Heath, Joe Lovano and many others . Lewis is also the Co-Founder of Heroes Are Gang Leaders a collective of musicians and poets that keep a foot in the past,present, and future.

 James is deep in an intrepid artistic continuum that explores identity and spirituality through challenging and awe-inspiring concepts and epiphanic playing that melds formalistic technique, bold exploration, and strains of gospel and blues. James Brandon Lewis presents a rich dialogue with his audience that is both fiery and cerebral.



Track Listings for Crazeology Radio Show 3rd March 2018


Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio Show dated 3rd March 2018. A link to the show can be found here:



The Crazeology Radio Show - 10/03/2018
Ibrahim Ferrer   El Platanal de Bartolo
Company Segundo   Me Diras Que Sabroso
Monogram Caribbean Orchestra   Calypso Cha Cha For Spooks
Machito   Zambia
Lecouna Cuban Boys   Mosaico
Latin Brothers   Buscandote
Fruko y Sue Tesos   Salsa Brava
Clarence Garlow   New Bon Ton Roulay
Chuz Alfred And His Combo   Caravan
Paul Boyers Band Feat Pattie Parish   Mambo Mambo Baby
Roy Gaines   Alabama Sue
Fraud   Giraffiti
Led Bib   Battery Power
Billy Jenkins   Ronald Reagan
Black Top   Nubian Archaic Step Dub
Josh Nelson   On The Sidewalk
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 1
Josh Nelson  The Architect
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 2
Josh Nelson  The Sky Remains
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 3
Josh Nelson   Ah Los Angeles
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 4
Josh Nelson   Bridges And Tunnels
Jazzmix  8032018
Meshell Ndegeocello   Sometimes It Snows in April

Track Listings for The Boogie Wonderland Show 1st March 2018


Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 1st March 2018. A link to the show can be found here:



The Boogie Wonderland Show - 08/03/2018 Playlist
Django Bates   Little Petherick
John Surman   Autumn Nocturne
Kit Downes   Kings
Andreas Schaerer  Dive
Janne Mark   Pilgrim
Django Bates   The Study of Touch
John Surman   Pitangan Pitomba
Kit Downes   Last Leviathan
Josh Nelson   On The Sidewalk
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 1
Josh Nelson  The Architect
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 2
Josh Nelson  The Sky Remains
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 3
Josh Nelson   Ah Los Angeles
Josh Nelson  Interview Part 4
Josh Nelson   Bridges And Tunnels
Jazzmix  8032018
Meshell Ndegeocello   Sometimes It Snows in April