Leticia Bouchard
Updated: 2010-06-30 17:09:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Smooth Jazz Blog News and information about Smooth Jazz Wednesday , June 30, 2010 Leticia Bouchard Leticia Bouchard High doses of caffeine can increase muscle power and endurance , researchers from Coventry University said in a news release . The scientists said the work could have an impact on how caffeine is used in sports . A small increase in performance via caffeine could mean the difference between a gold medal in the Olympics and an also-ran said lead researcher Dr . Rob James . Caffeine is not currently listed by the World Anti-Doping Agency as a banned substance , according to a news release on the new study . Before 2004, there was a level of caffeine athletes could not exceed . The study tested muscle use in mice at both maximal and sub-maximal
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Taken from recordings of live concerts by Anthony Braxton's quartet (completed by guitarist Kevin O'Neil, bassist Andy Eulau and drummer Kevin Norton) all over Europe in 2003, these four CDs document the celebrated multi-instrumentalist's ongoing dialogue with both the Great American songbook (here represented by the likes of 'Body and Soul', 'It's You or No One', 'East of the Sun', 'Nancy with the Laughing Face') and jazz classics such as Monk's 'Ruby My Dear', Jackie McLean's 'Little Melonae' and Coltrane's 'Mr. P.C.'. It also contains an improvisation, 'G. Petal', recorded in Brussels. 
Another full house for a home-grown composer, pianist Sam Crowe, launching an album of highly individual originals, performed by a band of leaders – saxophonist Adam Waldmann (Kairos 4tet), bassist Jasper Høiby (Phronesis), drummer Dave Smith (Outhouse) – and an Oxford philosophy student (Will Davies, guitar); as an indication of the extraordinary health and vitality of the current UK jazz scene, this gig couldn't be bettered.
Tim Richards identifies 'the unique combination of freedom and discipline' as the most seductive feature of the jazz piano trio, and this album (his first trio recording since 2003's Twelve by Three) contains twelve good illustrations of the form's attractions. The material addressed by Richards and his rhythm section (bassist Dominic Howles, retained from the aforementioned previous recording, and drummer Jeff Lardner) is a mix of five originals (four by Richards, one by Howles), imaginative visits to standards ('You're My Everything', 'Love for Sale' intriguingly played over a descarga bassline), and lively versions of jazz classics...
An international jazz weekend began with the appropriately named Channel Crossing Project, a collaboration between German-Indian pianist Jarry Singla and two of the UK's most cosmopolitan players, saxophonist Julian Argüelles and trumpeter Tom Arthurs, and was completed by a debut visit to the club by an American band led by flautist Jamie Baum. 
Jim Black, like a number of New York-based musicians (John Zorn, Bobby Previte, Tim Berne and Wayne Horvitz spring immediately to mind), is the musical equivalent of a spark plug, his tireless energy driving not only the individual bands for which he drums, but also whole subgenres of the music, formed by combining elements from apparently disparate areas of jazz and rock. 
Like his recent Trio album dedicated to the music of Eric Dolphy (Gone in the Air), this fourteen-track album inspired by another 20th-century jazz great, Charles Mingus, is clearly a labour of love for saxophonist Chris Biscoe. 
A new version of Jonathan Bratoëff's quartet finds him fronting a rhythm section comprising long-time associate Tom Mason (bass) and drumer James Maddren, and sharing front-line duties with saxophonist Mark Hanslip, but the guitarist's great strengths are still much in evidence on this, his fifth album as a leader: 
Philip Clouts is perhaps best known as the pianist in Zubop, a band at the heart of the so-called 'world jazz' strand within the music that manifested itself from the 1980s onwards. On this album, on which he is joined by fellow musical traveller (in this context it is important to distinguish between tourists and travellers), saxophonist Carlos Lopez-Real, bassist Alex Keen and drummer Paul Cavaciuti, Clouts has allowed the natural beauty of his home base, Charmouth in West Dorset, to inspire his ten compositions...
Food (now whittled down from a quartet to a core of saxophonist Iain Ballamy and drummer/live electronics operator Thomas Strønen) have now made six albums of what might be termed freely impovised ambient music, but this is the first for a label that might seem to many to have been their natural home all along: ECM.