Seven Arts, Leeds Saturday, 14th September 2024 A double header of the John Hackett Band and The Blackheart Orchestra. Seeing just one of them, on their own, would have justified all the travelling and the price of the ticket, but…
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Stoller Hall, Manchester Friday, 30th August 2024 Rickie Lee Jones became an overnight sensation following the release of her debut, eponymous, album in 1979. Chuck E’s in Love, her jazz-influenced, toe-tapping, joyful first single, became an immediate hit and soon…
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Nick Magnus is certainly no stranger to the progressive rock scene. After a five-year break since his last studio album Catharsis there is newcomer A Strange Inheritance, a concept album with an adventurous story, set in the late 18th, early…
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Japan has the greatest proportion of jazz lovers than any other country in the world. As Michael Caine never said, not a lot of people know that. The land of the rising sun has also bred a substantial number of…
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The Samurai Of Prog are one of the more interesting bands in progdom. It’s core members (bassist Marco Bernard and drummer Kimmo Pörsti, these days along with utility man Steve Unruh) use a talented stable of musicians from across the…
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Kalandra have been a vehicle for Katrine Stenbekk’s enchanting voice, her poetic lyrics and her vibrant live performances since 2013. A Frame of Mind is the band’s fourth fuller length release following the debut EP Beneath the Breaking Waves, the…
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Northumberland’s finest – the 5-piece melodic progressive rock band, Stuckfish – have just released their fourth album, suitably titled IV, and have succeeded in not only matching the quality of the previous release from 2022, the glorious Days of Innocence,…
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Hot on the heels last year’s excellent In the Rain Shadow MVI (Mark Vickness Interconnected) return with the follow up album. Follow up being the operative word as I Will Find My Way not only presents us with several new…
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On 27th August 2022, legendary Italian progrock group Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) appeared as main act at the famous Estival Jazz in Lugano, Switzerland. Of course, PFM is by no means jazz, rather full-blooded prog with influences from folk, baroque…
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Permission To Fly is the latest solo album from Jordan Rudess, the Dream Theater keyboard wizard, and the sixth since we covered 2019’s Wired For Madness. That album included an extensive cast drawn from across the prog world to help…
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