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The Weave

The Weave is a collection of truly world class Liverpool based Jazz musicians playing a repertoire of warm, melodious and largely friendly home grown tunes.

For years now Liverpool has been home to a small but extremely vibrant and healthy Jazz community. There is a deeply rooted, direct, honest and often humorous charm that is the hallmark of Liverpool music across the genres, and this is no less true of the Jazzers.

The Weave harnesses these qualities and aims to present them to a national and eventualy international audience.

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The Weave: Knowledge Porridge

Read "The Weave: Knowledge Porridge" reviewed by Phil Barnes


Once there was a time when to be an individual meant pursuing self-realisation, working out who you were, how you felt about the world and what you believed for yourself. If that meant that say Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra or Charles Mingus were viewed as eccentrics then too bad, it was just how they were or wanted to be seen. Regrettably in our modern age things have changed and individualism now has more than a whiff of selfishness, nasty politics ...

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The Weave: The Weave

Read "The Weave" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


From the perspective of an east of England jazz writer, it can seem like Manchester has the north east's jazz scene to itself, with Liverpool, its near neighbour, putting up little in the way of competition. It's not that Liverpool is un-musical--it is after all the home city of Gerry And The Pacemakers--but its impact on UK jazz isn't as emphatic as that of its musical rival. Enter The Weave, a Liverpool septet, with its rather wonderful self-titled debut album. ...

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Erik Darling Dies Musician in the Weavers

Erik Darling Dies Musician in the Weavers

Source: Michael Ricci

A virtuoso guitarist and banjo player, Erik Darling performed with two of the leading folk groups of the day, the Tarriers and the Weavers, which he joined after Mr. Seeger left in 1958.

Darling, a preppy Ayn Rand devotee who replaced Pete Seeger in the Weavers and who was associated with two of folk music's biggest commercial hits, “The Banana Boat Song" and “Walk Right In," died Sunday in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 74.The cause was lymphoma, said Allan ...

“Hot new jazz from Liverpool” - Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2/6Music)

“Just Beautiful” - Digby Fairweather

“The Weave have created something quite unique” - Marvin Stamm (ex-Sinatra New York jazz trumpeter)

“Distinctive and engaging” - Paul Pace (Ronnie Scotts)

“Great to hear the Liverpool scene is so vibrant . . . fine playing” - Howard Mandel (New York Jazz critic & Author)

"Get a hold of these jazzy gemstones of the Northlands. The perfect morning soundtrack" - Stealing Sheep

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Weave

Rufus Albino Records
2013

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