#Laura Jurd

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Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall - Fanfares and Freedom

A live recording from a piece premiered at the 2023 Cheltenham Jazz Festival, and later recorded at The Vortex. Laura Jurd was commissioned to write this piece for scored ensemble plus improvising quartet, and the resulting piece balances the composed and improvised elements beautifully in the fast moving 45 minute work which is very much in the tradition of the best British jazz. "I don’t think I’ll ever forget hearing Paul Dunmall play for the first time. Whilst aware of his gravitas as an improviser, I hadn’t been in the same room as him playing the saxophone until the first rehearsal of this music. His utterly courageous and no-holds-barred engagement with the present is something to behold. This album was recorded live at the Vortex Jazz Club in London. In an effort to capture the music at it’s best, we performed the same set of music twice, the resultant recording being the second set (bar one short improvisation from the first). Paul’s energy and dynamism was unwavering and I have no doubt that he had a third set in him also - a true ‘tour-de-force’. When commissioned to write this music, I was immediately excited and in some ways, joyfully daunted by the challenge. Aware of the dynamic magic of his quartet, it was immediately clear that the only role for Paul in the work was one of complete freedom. The question at that point, was how to make this the work of a ‘composer’ and put my artistic stamp on the whole affair? Whilst there are many composers interested in the blur between the written and the improvised, I wanted to give the listener a satisfyingly coherent sense of when they were listening to improvisation and when they were listening to conventional notation - the written music for the most part, fairly brazen in it’s stylistic identity. I’ve long been excited by the prospect of composing music for a chamber ensemble of brass players - all at equally home reading notation, improvising freely and in more of a typical jazz context . And there it began - a musical dialogue between the Paul Dunmall Quartet and Brass Quintet, both parties summoning, reacting to, propelling, welcoming, daring and disrupting the other. This was an album I never expected to make, which in itself feels like a celebration of spontaneity and the unexpected. I hope you enjoy listening." - Laura Jurd, May 2024  Paul Dunmall - tenor & sopranino saxophones Liam Noble - piano Caius Williams - double bass Miles Levin - drums Laura Jurd - trumpet Chris Batchelor - trumpet Alex Paxton - trombone Raphael Clarkson - trombone Oren Marshall - tuba

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Europe Jazz Media Chart - Październik 2024

Wybór nowości muzycznych, dokonany przez grupę czołowych europejskich magazynów i witryn jazzowych. A selection of the hot new music surfacing across the continent by the top European jazz magazines and websites. Kurt Elling Wildflowers, vol.1 (Edition Records) Krzysztof Komorek, Donos kulturalny, Polska Vivian Buczek Le Grand Michel (Naxos Prophone Records) Paweł Brodowski, Jazz Forum,���

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About

Zala Kodrič is a student of music cognition, based in London, UK and Luxembourg.

She is originally from Slovenia, where she studied piano under Selma Chicco Hajdin and violin under Tinkara Marinac at the Music School in Koper. Her exploration of composition began at a young age with short piano pieces and improvisation, and became more serious with consistent songwriting and composing from the age of eleven. She moved to Luxembourg in 2013, where she studied violin with Johanna Weirich and harmony and counterpoint with Claude Lenners. In 2019, she began her Bachelors in composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, under the tutelage of Laura Jurd, Paul Newland, and Edward Jessen.

She draws inspiration from modern musical theatre, pop, folk, and postminimalism, and explores the intersections of these influences.

She independently published her debut EP, “Hands in My Sleeves”, in April of 2023, with Sam Pugh on bass guitar and Amber Norris on drums.

Her dissertation project, "The Adopted Stories Songbook", premiered in May of 2023. It consists of six songs, each based on a different work of fiction.

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"The Big Friendly Album"

- happy jazz by trumpeter Laura Jurd

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Laura Jurd - Companion Species Composed by Anja Lauvdal & Heida K. Johannesdottir Album: Stepping Back, Jumping In (Edition Records, 2019) Laura Jurd : trumpet Raphael Clarkson : trombone Martin Lee Thomson : euphonium Soosan Lolavar : santoor (Persian dulcimer) Rob Luft : banjo The Ligeti Quartet : string quartet Elliot Galvin : piano Anja Lauvdal : synth, electronics Conor Chaplin : double bass Corrie Dick & Lizy Exell: drums

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DINOSAUR - 'Hardanger'   

Formerly known as the Laura Jurd Quartet, DINOSAUR play an original composition 'Hardanger' by Laura Jurd, filmed at Fieldgate Studios, Wales. DINOSAUR is Laura Jurd: trumpet, Elliot Galvin: keyboard, Conor Chaplin: electric bass and Corrie Dick: drums Filmed and recorded by Andrew Lawson, Fieldgate Studios, July 2015

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Rust Belt Jessie’s Witchy Wishlist 2020-21

I know I’m putting this up close to the wire, but the holidays were really busy and then it was my birthday/NYE, so I was kinda swamped. (Pssst, my witchy blog is @witchofbonesandkeys, but since this is my main blog I thought more people would see it if I posted here.)

Here’s my 2020-21 witchy wishlist:

—Anything from my Amazon wishlist (I’m totally cool w/ a. stuff from it being purchased from a source other than Amazon, and/or b. used copies of any of the books on it.)

—Anything from my Etsy wishlist

—Tarot of the Zirkus Magi

—I’d love love love it if you bought something from my Etsy shop (which has everything published by Bone & Ink Press, the tiny indie publishing house I run, as well as some of my own zines and some pins I designed).

—I’d also love if you donated to Bone & Ink Press’s GoFundMe campaign. We’re trying to raise money to print our next titles, hire some outside help, and keep the press going through 2021 and beyond.

—Anything you made: zines, art, jewelry, anything!

—Rubber stamps (have any you don’t use? send ‘em to me!)

—Stuff that can be used for osteomancy or to display or use in other projects—like trinkets, charms, beads, bones, rocks or beach glass, or even actual garbage if it’s cool or shiny (i.e. washers, pull tabs from soda/beer cans, bottlecaps, etc.) because I am basically a crow.

—Speaking of garbage! I also make a lot of collages and I’d love some more collage supplies, like scraps of paper (primarily if they’re colorful or have an interesting design), vintage clip art, interesting pages torn from magazines, old photos or postcards (like the kind you find in antique stores!)

—A personal tarot or oracle reading

—A custom-made playlist or mix CD—I like all kinds of music (and this isn’t one of those ‘except rap or country’ things; I truly like at least some things from all genres), but lately I’ve been listening to a lot of post-punk, a lot of Brian Eno, Thurston Moore’s newest album By The Fire, this Women of Experimental playlist on Spotify, and contemporary avant-garde jazz like Matana Roberts, Laura Jurd, and Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones (just to give you some idea of where my tastes are leaning at the moment.)

—Movie recommendations! I like a variety of genres, but tend to prefer art-house, indie, and foreign films, because I am a pretentious asshole.

—Your favorite hot toddy recipes

To contact me/send me anything digitally: DM me or email me at coeur.de.fantome@gmail.com

To send me physical stuff: if you’re ordering directly from my Amazon wishlist, it’ll come to my house

otherwise you can mail stuff to: Jessie Lynn McMains, P.o. box 85278, Racine, WI, 53408, USA

(P.S. If you’re sending something to my P.o. box, please email or DM me to let me know. You don’t have to tell me what it is, but I usually only check it every couple months; I’ll go more often if I know something is waiting for me!)

[justforbooks]

The 10 best jazz albums of 2020

Alongside archive recordings from Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, and inventive new releases by Maria Schneider and Carla Bley, 2020 had plenty of spectacular fusions

10

Pat Metheny – From This Place

Being both a bestselling jazz-fusion superstar and an experimental collaborator with John Zorn and Ornette Coleman takes rare agility, but guitarist Pat Metheny has managed both. Metheny’s 2020 album, performed by his current live band (UK pianist Gwilym Simcock, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and drummer Antonio Sánchez) with guest appearances from vocalist Meshell Ndegeocello and harmonica virtuoso Gregoire Maret, showcases his famously cinematic compositional muse, shrewdly balanced with the group’s off-the-leash inventiveness, and for the most part subtly applied synthesised orchestral effects. Read the full review.

9

John Coltrane – Giant Steps: 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Recorded in 1959 – a year of landmark jazz releases including Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue – John Coltrane’s Giant Steps set a scorching new standard of expressiveness on a saxophone. The album’s 60th anniversary was celebrated by Rhino’s luxurious, outtakes-packed release, detailing Coltrane’s quest for a spiritual new music – built here from a fusion of massively enhanced bebop harmonies over relatively orthodox swing, as the great Coltrane quartet including McCoy Tyner was still 18 months away. Thrilling accounts of the title track, Mr PC and Countdown join the exquisite ballad Naima, enriched for close listeners by the alternative takes. Read the full review.

8

Joshua Redman – RoundAgain

American sax star Joshua Redman’s 1994 quartet with pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade was one of the standout lineups of that decade – but short-lived, because all the members were on the brink of breakouts into their own fertile careers. They reunited in 2019 to record RoundAgain, with decades of experience recharging their old synchronicity. Redman’s and Mehldau’s inventiveness across multi-chorus solos, underpinned by McBride’s and Blade’s headlong energy, matches a captivating balance of rootsy soul figures, graceful waltzes, and flat-out postbop flights.

7

Blue Note Re:Imagined

Not exactly a landmark in the kind of out-of-nowhere improv phrasing that makes you jump out of your skin, but a fascinating snapshot of young jazz-fascinated UK R&B, grime, hip-hop and electronics. Sixteen tracks span a song-centred account of St Germain’s loop-driven Rose Rouge from vocalist Jorja Smith, Ezra Collective’s cool distillation of Wayne Shorter’s Footprints, powerful saxophonist Nubya Garcia’s version of Joe Henderson’s A Shade of Jade, Melt Yourself Down’s blitz on Henderson’s Caribbean Fire Dance, and more. Read the full review.

6

Sonny Rollins – Rollins in Holland

In the 1960s, the unquenchably inventive tenor sax improviser Sonny Rollins often toured without a band, hooking up with local players in whatever town invited him. These previously unreleased 1967 recordings in the Netherlands mark the 36-year-old Rollins’s first meetings with the young Dutch bass and drums pairing of Ruud Jacobs and emerging avant-garde drummer Han Bennink. The audio quality is variable, but nothing can obscure how spontaneously communicative these takes are – tit-for-tat exchanges and long, zigzagging tenor odysseys shared between musicians whose listening powers match their instrumental panache. Read the full review.

5

Laura Jurd’s Dinosaur – To the Earth

Third release by Laura Jurd’s Dinosaur quartet – the most compatible vehicle for the prolific young British trumpeter/composer’s inquisitively evolving fusion of jazz and folk materials, global influences, and sophisticated absorption of 20th-century classical music. Jurd always seems blissfully and refreshingly indifferent to transient fashions, though invitingly songlike qualities remain even in her most exploratory music. Barely 40 minutes long, To the Earth nonetheless fizzes with surprises, and Dinosaur’s most explicit nods to the jazz tradition – from piano soulmate Elliot Galvin’s Monkish dissonances, to voicelike early-jazz dirges, and breezy Scandinavian jigs. Read the full review.

4

John Scofield/Steve Swallow – Swallow Tales

The partnership between guitarist John Scofield and electric bassist Steve Swallow goes back a long way, and they both have instantly recognisable identities on their respective versions of a guitar. Scofield plays jazz with a biting, sometimes dissonant bluesiness owing as much to Jimi Hendrix as to his teacher Jim Hall, and Swallow’s airily lyrical phrasing infuses his basslines and his composing. Accompanied by Bill Stewart on drums on nine Swallow pieces, the pair often take off in gleefully driving extended solos – Scofield in particular sounds as if he’s having a ball from the off.

3

Carla Bley – Life Goes On

The third of a sequence of moving trio recordings by the jazz-composing legend and pianist Carla Bley, with bassist Steve Swallow and UK saxophonist Andy Sheppard – a typically whimsical confection of slinky blues, impish tangos, Monk-like figures and oblique takedowns of patriotic anthems, linked by all-but-psychic ensemble improv. The title reflects on the octogenarian Bley’s recent recovery from brain surgery – but though these exquisite pieces understatedly span feelings from sensuality to late-life realism, nothing in this terrific trio’s long history has ever had a hint of sentimentality about it. Read the full review.

2

Django Bates/Norrbotten Big Band – Tenacity

A double celebration from the inimitable UK composer/pianist Django Bates – his own 60th birthday, and the centenary of the birth of Charlie “Bird” Parker, probably Bates’s biggest jazz hero, though one whose legacy he has explored and developed in the most wilfully devious ways. Tenacity, recorded with Sweden’s loose-limbed and free-thinking Norrbotten Big Band, reworks Parker classics such as Donna Lee (as a mix of bebop, free jazz, and South African township riffs), My Little Suede Shoes, and Ah Leu Cha, alongside four characteristically capricious Bates originals. Read the full review.

1

Maria Schneider Orchestra – Data Lords

The sensibilities of the great American composer, bandleader and musicians’-rights campaigner Maria Schneider have usually been turned outwards – toward depicting spacious landscapes and the sounds and movement of the natural world, in jazz parallels to Aaron Copland’s American vistas. For 2020’s Data Lords double-album, Schneider enters a darker realm, themed on corporate tech’s erosion of private spaces and artistic independence, expressed in more rugged, metallic tones, fierce horn solos, and connections with the music of David Bowie, her most famous fan. But the old pastoral Schneider is still delicately and playfully present in the later passages of this rich and eloquent session. Read the full review.

✔ What were your favourite jazz releases of 2020? Share your tips in the comments.

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British JAZZ Group DINOSAUR release NEW single 'MOSKING'

British JAZZ Group DINOSAUR release NEW single 'MOSKING' @Dinosaur_band @EditionRecords @southbankcentre @LauraJurd #dinosaur #jazz

Following the announcement of their highly anticipated 3rd album ‘To The Earth, Mercury-nominated British Jazz super-group Dinosaur return with their new single ‘Mosking’. The new track is the first to be released from the new album, which is out on Edition Records this May.

Dinosaur ©Emile Holba

The new record celebrates a decade of music-making as a band and is accompanied by a further…

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Laura Jurd - Stepping Back, Jumping In

With Stepping Back, Jumping In, Laura Jurd has created an ecosystem full of sonic contrast, multiple layers and dimensions, with rigorous composition alongside improvisatory spaces. The result is dynamic, vibrant music that welcomes multiple listens and showcases some of the most exciting composer-instrumentalists around today. 

Laura Jurd - trumpet Raphael Clarkson - trombone (tracks 3, 5 & 6) Alex Paxton - trombone (tracks 1 & 2) Martin Lee Thomson - euphonium Soosan Lolavar - santoor Rob Luft - banjo / guitars The Ligeti Quartet: Mandhira de Saram - violin Patrick Dawkins - violin Richard Jones - viola Cecilia Bignall - cello (guest cellist) Elliot Galvin - piano Anja Lauvdal - synth / electronics Conor Chaplin - double bass Liz Exell - drum kit Corrie Dick - drum kit 1 Jumping In 10:48 (Laura Jurd) 2 Ishtar 12:10 (Elliot Galvin) 3 I Am The Spring, You Are The Earth 08:45 (Soosan Lolavar) 4 Jump Cut Shuffle 09:27 (Laura Jurd) 5 Companion Species 08:43 (Anja Lauvdal, Heida K.Johannesdottir) 6 Stepping Back 08:06 (Laura Jurd)

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Dinosaur “To The Earth”

Dinosaur “To The Earth”

Edition Records, 2020

Brytyjska grupa Dinosaur swoim trzecim albumem zamyka i podsumowuje dziesięciolecie działalności.  W czterdziestu minutach muzyki zespół oferuje słuchaczom pięć kompozycji liderki – Laury Jurd, jeden utwór podpisany przez cały kwartet oraz standard Billy’ego Strayhorna.

“To The Earth” może nieco zaskoczyć wielbicieli Dinozaurów. Jak opisuje to Laura Jurd, album jest…

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Festivalens nest siste konsert var med Laura Jurd og hennes band Dinosaur. Jeg vet ikke helt hva slags dinosaur de har sett for seg da de valgt navnet men dette var ihvertfall både sprekt, sprettent og dansbart.

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2017-07-22 Laura Jurd / Dinosaur – Storyville, Moldejazz Festivalens nest siste konsert var med Laura Jurd og hennes band Dinosaur. Jeg vet ikke helt hva slags dinosaur de har sett for seg da de valgt navnet men dette var ihvertfall både sprekt, sprettent og dansbart.

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Human Spirit (Chaos Collective, 2015) Track Listing: Opening Sequence; She Knew Him; Brighter Days; Prelude; Pirates; Blinded; Human Spirit; More Than Just A Fairytale; Closing Sequence. Personnel: Laura Jurd; trumpet/piccolo trumpet; Lauren Kinsella: vocals; Chris Batchelor: trumpet; Colm O’Hara: trombone; Alex Roth: guitar; Mick Foster: bass saxophone; Corrie Dick: drums. Laura Jurd/Dinosaur : Together, As One review – beautifully played and effortlessly confident

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