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Trevor Tomkins' Sextant: For Future Reference

Read "For Future Reference" reviewed by Chris May


A 2-CD collection of four sessions recorded for BBC Radio between 1980 and 1983, For Future Reference is a snapshot, just one of many snapshots that might be taken, of British jazz in the period immediately before the so-called “jazz boom" of the mid to late 1980s. That boom was marked by an acknowledgement of the dancefloor, the greater visibility of musicians with roots in the African diaspora, and a willingness, even eagerness, by those musicians to publicly affirm the ...

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Geoff Mason: GMQ

Read "GMQ" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Geoff Mason, one of the UK's leading jazz trombonists, mans the front line by himself on the slyly named GMQ, an eloquent quartet session from which Mason's longtime colleague, the outstanding saxophonist Simon Spillett, is regrettably missing. As nothing can be done to set that right, best to focus on the music at hand, which binds works by jazz masters John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and Thelonious Monk to a pair of lesser-known originals ("Beyond All Limits," “L's Bop").

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For Future Reference

Jazz In Britain
2023

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GMQ

GM Records
2020

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Lucky To Be Me

Feeler-Head Records
2020

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Gentle Piece

Challenge Jazz
1996

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Point Of Intersection

Challenge Jazz
1986

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