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Matthew Ruddick

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Author of Funny Valentine, an acclaimed new biography of the jazz trumpet player and singer, Chet Baker.
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Matthew Ruddick

Matthew Ruddick MATTHEW RUDDICK is the author of Funny Valentine, an acclaimed new biography of the jazz trumpet player and singer, Chet Baker. 

Over the last few years, he was a regular music critic for a variety of publications, including HK-listings magazine Beats, and the author of Music On The Move, a music column in Escape travel magazine. 

Born in England, Matthew has been living in Hong Kong for eight years, and works in the finance industry.

Bold, ambitious arrangements as Neset looks to combine jazz with modern classical music.
After signing to independent label Candid in 2001 and releasing three acclaimed titles, it was Clare’s first album for Sony Jazz which became her breakthrough record. Released in 2004, Don’t Talk topped the Jazz charts and entered the UK Top 20, garnering extraordinary plaudits and several awards. She has gone on to release eight more successful albums, six of them on her own label MUD Records. Clare continues to surge ahead on her mission to bring big band and swing to music lovers everywhere, to demonstrate that this genre is ever evolving and still relevant in today’s world. Alongside her own weekly 2 hour live radio show on BBC Radio 2, Clare performs across the length and breadth of the UK, and internationally, with either her Pianist, Trio, Mini Big Band or Hollywood Orchestra (Mini Big Band with Strings), celebrating the singers and songwriters of yesteryear and today alongside her own original material. She also guests with the Hallé, BBC Concert, RTÉ Concert and The John Wilson orchestras as well as other top big bands. In August 2015, in addition to a packed touring schedule, Clare produced and presented her 2nd full scale concert for the Proms Season at the Royal Albert Hall. ‘Story of Swing’ featured 2 roaring big bands and many special guests it was broadcast on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and televised on BBC Four. This spring saw the release of her new album, and most ambitious project to date, Twelve O’Clock Tales, recorded with the famed Hallé orchestra launching on April 30th. To support the release Clare will be touring Twelve O’Clock Tales throughout 2016, conducted and arranged by world-class trumpet and composer Guy Barker. 
Friday, 19 August 2016 15:16

Tori Freestone Trio - El Barranco

Saxophonist's new album brims with passion and invention.
Monday, 08 August 2016 02:49

Jacob Collier - In My Room

Jacob Collier keeps his room tidy - but it feels over-arranged.
ACT's European supergroup returns, for a second helping of Mediterranean chamber jazz.
Friday, 05 August 2016 15:57

Gabriel Vicéns - Days

Puerto Rican guitarist serves up progressive Latin jazz on his sophomore album.
Marius Neset is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, living in Copenhagen. He is known from collaborations with the jazz bands People Are Machines and JazzKamikaze, and the Django Bates projects StoRMChaser big band and Human Chain. He is the son of music teachers guitarist Terje Neset and pianist Anne Leni Søfteland Sæbø, and the brother of the vocalist Anna Søfteland Neset and flautist Ingrid Søfteland Neset. He signed up for the label ACT Records in 2013. His first ACT release Lion (2014) together with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, reached international acclaim as one of the most important large ensemble albums of 2014. Marius Neset's quintet album Pinball was released January 2015. His latest recording, Snowmelt - recorded with the London Sinfonietta - comes out in August 2016.
Carla Bley still not content to rest on her laurels.
Andy Sheppard is a British jazz saxophonist and composer. He has been awarded several prizes at the British Jazz Awards, and has worked with some notable figures in contemporary jazz, including Gil Evans, Carla Bley, George Russell and Steve Swallow.
Sunday, 10 July 2016 03:03

Gregory Porter - Take Me To The Alley

2016 What? New Gregory Porter album sounds a bit old hat.

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