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This excellent four-day survey of the European jazz scene includes sets from Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia, the Louis Sclavis Quintet and from the UK's John Surman and Andy Sheppard.

John Surman is a composer with a broad and multi-hued musical palette. Hes written for everything from solo saxophone to string quartet to choir with organ to contemporary dance.

John Surman is arguably the best baritone saxophonist to come into jazz since Gerry Mulligan and one of the most important British jazz musicians of his generation.

It's increasingly risky to be a musician on the road. When British saxophonist John Surman was traveling from his home in Oslo, Norway, to New York City in September, 2007 for a recording session, he almost lost his baritone saxophone to the airlines.

A strong current of humility runs through the art of the multireedist John Surman.

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

"THE sound of Norma Winstone, the groove of Flora Purim, the swing of Annie Ross and a dash of Anita O'Day." That was the glowing assessment by leading jazz singer Lee Gibson given to the Brigitte Beraha Trio, who perform at The Wynd in Melrose on Saturday, August 29.

British jazz multi-instrumentalist John Surman has pretty much done it all. Early in his career he performed with British blues rocker Alex Korner .

Brewster 's Minions: Surman's quartet shakes things up on his new album. Brewster's Rooster John Surman ECM When Jack DeJohnette visited London with the Bill Evans trio in 1968, the drummer instigated a series of jam sessions at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.

Proper importance is placed on oysters and other crustacea and I was impressed to see a well stocked, well cared-for cheese trolley Le Bouchon Breton Music Barry Millington With drum tattoos and muted trumpet fanfares crisply delivered, the narrative thrust of the work was clearly, almost cinematically, delineated BBCSO/Bychkov Reader reviews Film ...

Saxophonist and composer John Surman has been one of the leading lights of British jazz for more than forty years.

ECM RECORDS is making a big deal out of saxophonist John Surman 's newest disc, " Brewster's Rooster ." Surman finds that funny.

After a string of more jazz-centric ECM releases-1992's relatively free Adventure Playground , the large ensemble of 1993's The Brass Project , and the only document of his ongoing quartet with pianist John Taylor , bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall , 1994's Stranger Than Fiction -saxophonist John Surman's subsequent output for the ...

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Dedicating oneself to the baritone saxophone indicates a big personality, so it's surprising that few jazz stars have emerged on the instrument.