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The Composers' Orchestra Berlin: Telling Stories
by Jack Bowers
The Composers' Orchestra Berlin is precisely that: a 15-piece ensemble, now a battle-tested 16 years old, all of whose handsome compositions on its eighth recording, Telling Stories, were written and arranged by members of the orchestra or its conductor and music director, Hazel Leach. The COB includes a small string section (two violins, viola, cello) that is more than mere window dressing, as it plays an important role on most numbers, as does the solitary 'trumpet section' (Amadeo ...
Continue ReadingLet Spin: Steal The Light
by Chris May
Formed in 2014, London's Let Spin is an electric quartet peopled by musicians who emerged around a decade earlier as part of a scene which was rather lazily dubbed “punk jazz" by British music journalists. The music was certainly loud, irreverent and in-your-face, but it was played by musicians who were conservatoire graduates, a demographic not associated with punk in its original knuckle- scraping manifestation. Let Spin's Ruth Goller and Chris Williams were members of two of ...
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Finlay Panter
Location: Manchester
Instrument: Drums
