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George Haslam / João Madeira / Pedro Castello Lopes / Mário Rua: Ajuda
by Mark Corroto
Why would a listener consider Ajuda, a free jazz recording by the quartet of British saxophonist George Haslam and this Portuguese trio, to be a meditative production? Is it quiet? Not really. Is it a solo effort? Not at all. Is it focused inward? No, and yet, yes it is if we consider the synergistic effects of four improvising musicians performing in a simpatico flow state. Recorded on Haslam's day off in Lisbon from a working series he had scheduled ...
read moreJazz: More Than A Performing Art?
by AAJ Staff
By George Haslam Our classic vision of music is that of a performance by one or more musicians before an audience of music lovers where the music, as art and/or entertainment, is the sole element of the event, an event communicating the output of the music makers--composers, arrangers, players--with the receptive audience. Outside the concert room music finds many more essential roles; it combines with other art forms to create ballet, opera, musicals; it serves necessary functions ...
read moreGeorge Haslam: 2002 003 04 and Cool Moon
by Donald Elfman
George Haslam's FreeTime 2002 003 04 Slam 2005 Anglo-Kuopio Quartet Cool Moon Slam 2005
Brit George Haslam formed his FreeTime Quartet in 2002 and, with the assistance of a Czech National Radio person and a noted jazz club owner, has toured regularly across the Czech Republic and occasionally beyond. Milos Latislav, ...
read moreGeorge Haslam/Borah Bergman/Paul Hession: The Mahout
by Ty Cumbie
On The Mahout, three well established musicians meet, almost for the first time, and produce an album from thin air. Yes, this is free improvisation in the age of instancy, but this is still a remarkably spontaneous product. According to the brief liner notes, the trio met for a beer, then recorded the next morning. Evidently it was only one beer—these men are no college kids, and the music reveals no trace of hangover. The title track, if anything, might ...
read moreOne of the few really free spirits of British jazz, baritone saxman George Haslam. JAZZ Review, UK August 2005
Five tracks of top-flight improvisation confirm that British baritone saxophonist George Haslam is one of the mainstays of his instrument; Ken Waxman, Jazz Week, Canada
“On baritone Haslam is a great awesome force. Why has George Haslam never gotten his due? He's one of the outstanding improvisors of our age." Cadence,USA
“Pretty much anything that George Haslam plays on is guaranteed to be worth listening to and this is no exception.” Jazz Views UK
“George Haslam is one of the most interesting bari sax players to go beyond traditional stylings and explore the low range of the free.” Beyond Coltrane