The Phoenix And The Turtle (Les Cousins/Planet) Beverly Martyn’s first album in 14 years is often so achingly raw it is like being given a tool for excavating her soul. The recording quality makes it seem that she is seated right beside you, wishing, lamenting and confessing in your ear.…
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Concert Hall, June 10 Chick Corea and Gary Burton have been playing together for 43 years. Other jazz musicians may have clocked up similar feats of collaborative longevity in group contexts, but no one holds a candle to them in a duo, the most intimate of improvising relationships. This rapport…
(www.xylourisensemble.net) Greece may be a financial basket-case, but its cultural wealth remains boundless, and an instrument like the three-string Cretan lyra seems to offer an immediate link to the dawn of European civilisation. In fact this ancestor of the violin family may be only 1100 years old, but its sound,…