Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Album reviews with Tony Burke: April 4, 2022
New releases from John McLaughlin, Joe Satriani, and Family
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
John McLaughlin
The Montreaux Years
BMG
★★★★
CURATED and compiled by jazz guitar supremo John McLaughlin from six concerts at the Montreux Jazz Festival between 1978 and 2016, McLaughlin has chosen seven sides (for the single CD version from 1984 to 2016) all subjected to superb sonic restoration and re-mastering.
The set kicks off with The Mahavishnu Orchestra on 1984’s Radio Activity, and Nostalgia.
His other bands include Heart Of Things who appear on Acid Jazz from 1998 and the Free Spirits on Sing Me Softly Of The Blues from 1995.
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