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All Men Amen
''All Men Amen'' is the second album by English saxophonist Iain Ballamy, featuring Django Bates, Steve Watts and Martin France. It was released on the B&W label in 1995. Reception Allmusic awarded the album with 4.5 out of 5 stars. Allmusic: ''All Men Amen''accessed 19 May 2010 Track listing # "All Men Amen" – 7:24 # "Serendipity" – 5:28 # "Blennie" – 4:42 # "Haunted Swing" – 4:30 # "Oaxaca" – 6:07 # "Meadow" – 8:48 # "This World...." – 4:36 # "Further Away" – 3:35 All compositions by Iain Ballamy Personnel *Iain Ballamy – soprano, alto and tenor saxophones *Django Bates – keyboards, tenor horn * Steve Watts – bass *Martin France Martin France (29 February 1964 – 5 September 2024) was a British jazz drummer. He recorded on over 100 albums and was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was sponsored by Paiste cymbals. Life and career France began perf ... – drums References {{Authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Ballamy
Iain Ballamy (born 20 February 1964) is a British composer and saxophonist. He is considered one of the 25 greatest jazz saxophonists of all time and was featured as one of the world's all-time greats in ''BBC Music Magazine''s "100 Jazz Legends". ''The Guardian'' described him as "one of the world's distinctive saxophone voices". One of his closest musical collaborators is Django Bates. Career Ballamy was born in Guildford, Surrey, and educated at George Abbot School, Guildford, from 1975 to 1980. He then studied Musical Instrument Technology from 1980 to 1982 at Merton College. He took piano lessons from age of 6 to 14. He discovered saxophone in 1978 with three lessons and his first professional gig was in 1980. He played Ronnie Scotts as Iain Ballamy Quartet at age 20. He was a founding member of Loose Tubes in 1984. First recording with Billy Jenkins in 1985, his first solo album, '' Balloon Man'', was released in 1988. Clive Davis' review in The Times described it as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B&W Music
B&W, B/W or B+W may refer to: Companies * Babcock & Wilcox, an American manufacturing company * Brown & Williamson, a former American tobacco company, now merged with R. J. Reynolds * Bowers & Wilkins, a British loudspeaker company * Bra & Wessels, a Swedish chain of department stores, since 2001 known as Coop Forum * Burmeister & Wain, Danish ship yard and diesel engine producer * Boeing & Westervelt, precursor company to Boeing * B+W Filterfabrik, a photographic filter manufacturer now owned by Schneider Kreuznach Other * Black and white, as it refers to photography or cinematography * Grayscale * Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White), a computer model made by Apple Computer * College van Burgemeester en Wethouders, the Dutch municipal executive * Black & White Festival, the Portuguese audiovisual festival * b/w (meaning "backed with"), an abbreviation often used to separate the listing of the two sides of a vinyl record, especially a 45 record * Blue and White (political alliance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balloon Man (album)
''Balloon Man'' is the debut album by English saxophonist Iain Ballamy, with Django Bates, Steve Watts and Martin France. It was released on the EG label in 1989. Reception The Times wrote "After listening to Balloon Man, it is tempting to call in the Fraud Squid to examine his birth certificate. No 25-year-old could possibly play with so much confidence and maturity... possibly the most assured session so far by any player of his generation... Where most of his contemporaries are still at the stage of reproducing their favourite saxophonists, Ballamy sounds absolutely individual, even when moving between alto, tenor and soprano horns." AllMusic awarded the album with 4.5 out of 5 stars. Allmusic: ''Balloon Man''accessed 1 May 2010 The ''Penguin Guide'' review says: "Although closely associated with the Loose Tubes big band, his debut as a leader suggests that he is very much his own man. Rather than pursuing a particular style on one of the saxophones, he plays with a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acme (Iain Ballamy Album)
Acme is Ancient Greek (ἀκμή; English transliteration: ''akmē'') for "the peak", "zenith" or "prime". It may refer to: Arts, entertainment and games * ''Acme'' (album), an album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Acme and Septimius, a fictional couple in Catullus 45, a poem by Roman poet Catullus * Acme (band), Japanese rock band * Acme (card game), a form of solitaire * Acme Corporation, a fictional company originating in ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons, later a generic fictional company name * ACME Detective Agency, a fictional detective agency in the ''Carmen Sandiego'' computer games and television shows People * Acme (enslaved woman) (died 5 BC), Jewish slave and personal maid to Empress Livia Drusilla * Andrea Carla Michaels, American crossword puzzle constructor and founder of Acme Naming Businesses, buildings and institutions Bangladesh * The ACME Laboratories Ltd, a pharmaceutical company United Kingdom * ACME Comic Con, a fan convention held in Glasgow at the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django Bates
Django Bates (born Leon Bates, 2 October 1960) is a British jazz musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader and educator. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. Bates has been described as "one of the most talented musicians Britain has produced... his work covers the entire spectrum of jazz, from early jazz through to bebop and free jazz to jazz-rock fusion." In addition to his jazz work, he is also a classical composer (writing both large- and small-scale compositions on commission), theatre composer, and has taught as a professor at various European music schools. As a leader, his bands have included Human Chain, Delightful Precipice, Quiet Nights, Powder Room Collapse Orchestra and Belovèd, and he was also a leading figure in Loose Tubes and Bill Bruford's Earthworks. Early life Bates was born in Beckenham, then in Kent, now Greater London, England, and attended Sedgehill School. While at this school, he also attended the Centre for Young Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Watts (musician)
Steve Watts (born 11 July 1976) is an English retired footballer who played as a striker, making over 100 Football League appearances for Leyton Orient. Watts is now a professional poker player who has cashed for a total of $777,429 up to and including September 2016. Career Dulwich Hamlet and Fisher Athletic Watts started his career with Dulwich Hamlet and moved to Fisher Athletic in the summer of 1998. He moved to Leyton Orient in October 1998 after winning The Sun newspaper's 'Search for a Striker' competition. Leyton Orient His debut for Leyton Orient was on 12 August 2000, away at Plymouth Argyle. He signed a three-year contract for Orient manager Tommy Taylor, despite interest from Millwall. Watts made 48 starts for Orient in the next two seasons, and 29 appearances as substitute, scoring 22 goals, before going to Margate on loan on 13 September 2002. At Margate he played in five games, scoring 3 goals and receiving 2 yellow cards. On his return to Brisbane Road in Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin France
Martin France (29 February 1964 – 5 September 2024) was a British jazz drummer. He recorded on over 100 albums and was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was sponsored by Paiste cymbals. Life and career France began performing at the age of twelve with singers in Working Men's clubs and organ trios in Manchester, England. After moving to London in 1983, he began his recording career for ECM. He has been active for many years as a studio musician in London, performing on recording sessions for European and American films and television. He was involved in composing music for KPM/EMI in London which has been used for worldwide TV and commercial broadcast. His use of electronic and sequenced drums and percussion has resulted in performances and recording sessions for many musicians. He released two albums with his band Spin Marvel. They performed at Cheltenham Jazz Festival in the UK with the line up featuring Nils-Petter Molvaer and John Paul Jones (musicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Albums
1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the Information Age. America Online and Prodigy (online service), Prodigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public. Events January * January 1 ** The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). ** Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union. * January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard then ''Mir'' space station, breaking a duration record. * January 10–January 15, 15 – The World Youth Day 1995 festival is held in Manila, Manila, Philippines, culminating in 5 million people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
