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Dave Douglas | Keystone

The centrepiece of this 2-disc package is Fatty Arbuckle’s 1915 silent film Fatty and Mabel Adrift, for which Douglas has produced a score. Excellently mastered for DVD, the music comes timed to the movie, and runs as a continuous 34-minute package, plus a bonus suite built around other Arbuckle vignettes. 07.04.06

Dave Holland Quintet - Critical Mass

Dare2984 221-6 ****
Robin Eubanks (tb), Chris Potter (ts, ss), Steve Nelson (vib), Dave Holland (b) and Nate Smith (d). Rec. 2006

The more you listen to this record, the more you discover. Immediately accessible and approachable, the music may be nothing like the Modern Jazz Quartet but shares qualities in common: compositional values, fugue-like depth and integrity, thematic purpose and direction.

17.01.07

Dec 07/Jan 08 CD Reviews - Jazz And Beyond

New Releases Dec 07/Jan 08 issue - All CDs Reviewed in the Dec 07/Jan 08 Issue

Mishka Adams – Space (Candid), Bruce Adams/Alan Barnes Quintet - Spontaneous Combustion (Woodville), Eric Alexander - Temple of Olympic Zeus (HighNote), Harry Allen - Hits By Brits (Challenge), Jon Balke - Book of Velocities (ECM), Guy Barker - The Amadeus Project (Global Mix), Mark Bassey - Mark Bassey’s Telling Stories (Bassey), Carla Bley - The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (ECM), Dave Brubeck - Indian Summer (Telarc), Bahauddin Dagar - Live from Darbar Festival (Sense World Music), Andy Davies Quartet - Getting Giggy (Rhythm and Muse), Die Enttäuschung - Mahall-Dorner-Roder-Jennessen (Intakt), Dimension X - Dimension X (KML), Mark Donlon – Ashia (F-IRE), EST - Live in Hamburg (ACT), Jez Franks’ Compassionate Dictatorship - Coup D’Etat (FMR), Tim Garland - The Northern Underground Orchestra (Jazz Action), Glasgow Improvisers’ Orchestra (with Barry Guy) – Falkirk (FMR), 30.11.07

Diana Krall - Christmas Songs

Verve ****
Most of this album is freshly recorded, but there are two of the three tracks from the Christmas "single" CD Krall did back in 1998 (‘Jingle Bells’, also on that disc, has been re-made here with big-band accompaniment from the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra). 10.01.06

Diana Krall | From This Moment On

Diana Krall (v, p), Terrell Strafford (t), Gil Castellanos (t), Sal Cracchiolo (t, flhn), Jeff Clayton (as), Rickey Woodard (s), Gerald Clayton (p), Tamir Hendelman (p), Anthony Wilson (g), John Clayton (b), Jeff Hamilton (d) and the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Rec. 2006 31.08.06

Django Bates and StoRMChaser - Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?)

Lost Marble LM003 ****
Django Bates (ky, Eb horn, v), Stuart Hall (g), Michael Mondesir (b), Martin France (d), RMC International Choir (v), Josephine Lindstrand, Elena Setien, Yeregui (v) and StoRMChaser: Julie Kjaer (fl, picc), Bo Skold Christensen, Clars Anders, Aske Drasbek, Marius Neset, Martin Stender, Johann Bylling Lang (s, fl), Jimmy Nyborg, Ulrik Kofoed, Kevin Christensen, Andre Jensen, Daniel Herskedal (brass), Christian Bluhme (g), Petter Eldh (b), Anton Eger (d) and Mikkel Schnettler (perc).
Rec. Dec. 2007

26.06.08

Don Byron - Do The Boomerang

Blue Note 3410942 | ***
Byron (ts, cl, bcl), David Gilmore (g), George Colligan (org), Curtis Fowlkes (tb), Brad Jones (b), Rodney Holmes (d), Dean Bowman (v) and Chris Thomas King (v, g).
Rec. 2006

17.01.07

Dylan Howe Quintet - Translation Vol. 2 – Standards & Previews

Motorik MR 1002 ****
Howe (d), Quentin Collins (t), Brandon Allen (ts), Ross Stanley, Will Butterworth (p), Aidan O’Donnell and Chris Hill (b). Rec: 2005-2007 04.10.07