Emma Rawicz is a British saxophonist who has been remarkably busy since 2021, winning Jazz Newcomer of the Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, a Drake YolanDa award and becoming a BBC Young Musician Jazz Award finalist. She was also nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year at the Jazz FM Awards. Paintbox is her fifth record and the fourth for the ACT Music label.
“Cowboys and Aliens” opens the record with a repetitive riff that would not be out of place in a Steve Reich piece, which is perhaps an intentional cowboy reference. It soon opens out into a fascinating period of interplay between the quartet, with Rawicz pushing them to greater exploration and intensity until suddenly everything jerks to a halt, leaving just Elliot Galvin’s…
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Television’s Marquee Moon reimagines guitar rock in such original, pioneering ways that critics and fans still struggle to describe its essence five decades after its original release. Made after the band cut its teeth for four years amid New York’s thriving arts scene, the 1977 album blends the inimitable interplay of guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd; spontaneous and precise approaches; and winding arrangements that draw as much from classical, jazz, and psychedelia as the punk ethos to which the album is often linked.
Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole into Wonderland, Lucy enters Narnia through the back of a wardrobe, and Dorothy gets whisked away in a tornado to the Land of Oz. Literary theorist Joseph Campbell would define each of those moments as a “call to adventure,” the first step of the hero’s journey that underlies all storytelling.
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Punk supergroup Fake Names return with 
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There is an authenticity to the music of South Carolina’s Winyah that can’t be faked.
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His profile elevated for the world to see and hear as Brian Eno’s creative partner on 
25-year-old German saxophonist 
It has now become a sort of tradition for artists from Sweden to come up with some high-quality to excellent power pop and pop rock.
“Feels so good to play my blues for you again…I took some time off now I’m back on the scene” sings Bernard Allison on the roots/funky “Blues Thing,” the closer on this, his first album of originals in four years. While it might have been better positioned as an opening statement, the intent remains; Allison has returned after taking time off.
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