Great Players CELTIC JAZZ!

[TomMapfumo]

I just want to bring to your attention the latest CD by Neil Yates band "New Origins" on Carnyx records which is well worth a listen on his MySpace website. It has some qualities of Miles and Gil Evans but also features a celtic slant and features bodhran, guitar and whistles alongside sax and flugelhorn

As with his appearance on Dave Stapleton's "Catching Sunlight" it is a very valuable contribution to West Coast (Celtic) Jazz) and expands the horizons somewhat.

I have been listening to both in recent weeks and feel very inspired by such musicians who live in North and South Wales(Rhos on Sea & Cardiff respectively)

Worth a Listen IMHO 8)

 

[dooce]

Sounds like "Miles Davis visits Sligo and gets stoned by the sea."

Spot on. That is lovely.

 

[Jules]

Ever heard of a band called Lammas? It featured Tim Garland on Sax and a great female celtic folk/jazz vocalist who i've just completely forgotten the name of! Really lovely celtic/jazz crossover from the early 1990s. Well worth checking out.
Another interesting crossover in a (very vaguely) similar vein- Bela Fleck and the Flecktones- fusion/bluegrass crossover, upbeat and slightly bonkers.

 

[TomMapfumo]

Christine Tobin

Tom 8)

 

[Jules]

Yes, that's her!

 

[dooce]

Tom, have you ever heard of this guy from your neck of the woods?
http://www.myspace.com/danjamesmandocello
He runs a folk/fusion band called BeBopDaJig which features a great sax player called, I think, Caractacus Jones (sounds like a Welsh archeologist). Saw them at a cider festival in August and they were brilliant - although I might have been hallucinating by then..............

 

[TomMapfumo]

Thanks for that, dooce. I had a listen on myspace and sounds OK, I just am not sold on the flute in general - feel that it has a certain unwanted influence on music that it is involved in, especially with acoustic guitar - lacking body and a bit too girly (all very subjective I appreciate!). I will look into the BeBopDaJig setup and good old Caractacus Jones - is he known in his village as Jones the Sax, I wonder?

Kind regards
Tom 8)

 

[dooce]

As a flute player long before I picked up the sax........, um, I wouldn't disagree with you......

:whistle: