Michael Tucker is the Editorial Director at HAL Inria. He specializes in arts and entertainment, with a keen focus on music and movies, exploring the intersection of these vibrant fields. Michael's work has been featured in HAL Inria, City Lifestyle, Glide Magazine, video.tm, and Jazz Journal.
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The Italian pianist leads tenor, bass and drums in loosely framed music expressing tenderness, reverie and yearning
The British singer, well-known for her delicate wordless vocals, teams up with pianist Downes for a lyric-rich set of covers and originals
German reedman lays aside his saxophone to pursue big-band writing reflecting his fascination with through-composition
Mosaic afford their usual rigorous and comprehensive treatment to the vibist's work, across seven CDs with extensive notes and photography
By: Michael Tucker
Almost a quarter of a century ago – it seems like only yesterday – I enjoyed a conversation with Joe Zawinul after a Syndicate gig of his at the Bergen Jazz Festival. We got onto the subject of contemporary saxophonists. It wasn't long before Joe advised me “ You know, Mike, Wayne always spoiled me for all the others!”
Each time I drop into Chichester Jazz Club, I don't know what impresses me the most: the range and overall quality of the performing musicians or the size of the attentive (and healthily diverse) audience, who habitually accord the music the most respectful and enthusiastic attention.
John Beasley, Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Returning To Forever (Candid CAN 33352) Following my review last month of the Del Sasso Big Band’s revisioning of Chick Corea’s 1981 Three Quartets, here is another high-octane take on the pianist’s multi-dimensional world. This time the music includes material I associate with the moment when Corea turned the […]
The quartet gig which John Surman had at Ronnie Scott’s this past June (reviewed 12/06) was memorable enough in itself. What made the evening extra special was the fact that long-time ECM aficionados Adrian and Jane Goldsmith were in the audience. We had never met up before but when we did, just after the gig […]
Bobby Wellins Sextet: Homage To Caledonia – Live 1979 (Jazz In Britain JIB-67-5-CD This most welcome – and unmissable – single volume release from Jazz in Britain comes hard on the heels of the label’s two-CD Wellins issue of 2023, What Was Happening. Both releases feature the same splendid quartet which the swinging and audacious, […]
Having wrapped up last year's programme with a thoroughly enjoyable evening of Christmas-flecked material, courtesy of the captivating Alan Barnes Octet, Chichester Jazz Club kicked off 2025 with two foot-tapping and finger-snapping – but also deeply lyrical – sets from the excellent Robert Fowler Quartet.
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