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Chris Batchelor's Zoetic: Telling The Tale

Read "Telling The Tale" reviewed by Chris May


A founder member of the radical London big band Loose Tubes in 1983, trumpeter Chris Batchelor was one of the Young Turks leading the mid-to-late 1980s British jazz renaissance. While pianist and composer Django Bates emerged as perhaps the most high-profile member of the band, Batchelor is every inch his equal, both as a player and as a composer. Batchelor leads two groups in 2023. One is the Dada-esque romp Pigfoot, a quartet he founded in 2013 ...

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Pigfoot: Pigfoot Shuffle

Read "Pigfoot Shuffle" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Once a taste for mischief is acquired it's hard to rein it in. Pigfoot was having way, way too much fun on 21st Century Acid Trad (Village Life Records, 2014) to go straight on this, its second outing. If the former happily warped New Orleans jazz, Pigfoot Shuffle applies a similar concept to a broader pool of music, with rock 'n' roll, opera, soul, classic rock and pop coming in for some lovingly irreverent, jazzified treatment. In other hands it ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Telling The Tale

Pokey Records
2023

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Shuffle

Pokey Records
2019

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Pigfoot Shuffle

Pokey Records
2019

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