Tag: Mike Peden

  • Masaru Imada Trio + 1 – Planets – BBE Music

    Imada’s Bosendorfer piano talks to you. Fluid and flowing, eloquent like a high-class orator. This reissue from 1977 feels as if yesterday has been reborn into tomorrow. Contemporary always. Try, Planets at the beginning. Moods along with tempos lift and fall as the album then progresses packed full of life enhancing sequences, exploring texture and…

  • Per Husby Septett – Peacemaker – BBE Music

    Sometimes nothing else will do. Jazz when played with purposeful ferocity blows away cobwebs recharging moods with a unique air. This release dates back to 1976 yet channels living, breathing history into its rhythms and grooves, perhaps none more so than on the opening number, the fiery horn driven, Au Privave/ Bloomdido. What also proves…

  • Kohsuke Mine – First – BBE Music

    I was having one of those awkward days when moments didn’t add up to making much sense. The thought of listening to the twist of Modern Jazz did not seem like the answer or even a remotely helpful proposition given the circumstance. But of course, I did so anyway. Funny then that everything suddenly made…

  • Takeo Moriyama – East Plants – BBE

    Curated by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden the BBE J Jazz Masterclass Series is a blessing in transcendent music. In this case from 1983 and drummer Takeo Moriyama’s blinding East Plants long player. If the albums shuffling sensibilities that drive the combination of percussion, bass and reeds forward are of note then look no further…

  • Pauline Henry Q&A

    Hi Pauline, thanks for taking time out to do this for Magazine Sixty. I wanted to begin by asking what do the words ‘Soul Music’ mean for you in 2016. Feeling is the language of the Soul. I love when an Artiste have the ability to convey feelings through music, melody and words. In 2016…

  • The Chimes The Chimes: Deluxe Edition Big Break Records The Chimes burst onto the world in the late 1980’s with a sound that fused soulful, soaring melodies together with sure-fire rhythms which at times delved emotional depths, while at others tearing up the dancefloor. The sheer intensity of Heaven blew things wide open when released…