foursticks
Pioneer Member
Re: "New" Legends of Jazz?
I know this is quite a few posts back (a very many in fact), but yeah I saw Polar Bear play at the Manchester Jazz fest and I have to saw he is one HELL of a drummer. Very tight and can be VERY explosive, definatly check Polar Bear out as well, from what I heard/can remember at their set at Manchester jazz they were very,very good and I really enjoyed them, I think they played stuff off 'Held On The Finger Tips'.
He's also involved a more recent project called Acoustic Ladyland, which involves him and 2 other members of Polar Bear with a keyboardist, anyway their music is very good, they've realesed three records their first being very traditional jazz, very nice from the samples I heard on iTunes, but their 2nd and more recent album are more avant garde, the 2nd they incorperate jazz with punk and disco themes and it ends up working out and sounding pretty good, they're more recent album called 'Skinny Grin', is even more 'out there' and reminded me alot of John Zorn's crazy breakdowns, so go check them out as well if your into that thing.
stu, have you heard of seb rochford? he won the Rhythm best jazz drummer of 2005. he's currently playing for a group called the Polar Bears, who are based in Bristol. I've heard that he is amazing and really leads the band. I've heard that they jam at a pub in Bristol, I've got to find out where it is!
I know this is quite a few posts back (a very many in fact), but yeah I saw Polar Bear play at the Manchester Jazz fest and I have to saw he is one HELL of a drummer. Very tight and can be VERY explosive, definatly check Polar Bear out as well, from what I heard/can remember at their set at Manchester jazz they were very,very good and I really enjoyed them, I think they played stuff off 'Held On The Finger Tips'.
He's also involved a more recent project called Acoustic Ladyland, which involves him and 2 other members of Polar Bear with a keyboardist, anyway their music is very good, they've realesed three records their first being very traditional jazz, very nice from the samples I heard on iTunes, but their 2nd and more recent album are more avant garde, the 2nd they incorperate jazz with punk and disco themes and it ends up working out and sounding pretty good, they're more recent album called 'Skinny Grin', is even more 'out there' and reminded me alot of John Zorn's crazy breakdowns, so go check them out as well if your into that thing.