Sophie
Bancroft
'Modern Love
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2005
release from LisaLeo records featuring new material
from singer-songwriter Sophie Bancroft. New songs, more
seductive vocals and the stylings of this great band creates
a most evocative and appealing CD.
Personnel:
Sophie
Bancroft (voice & guitar), Sandy
Wright (guitar), Dave Milligan
(piano), Phil Bancroft (sax), Tom
Lyne (bass), Donald Hay (drums
& perc)
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Executive Producer: Phil Bancroft Co-Producers:
Tom Lyne & Sophie Bancroft Engineers:
Dave Gray & Tom Lyne Recorded at: Sound
Cafe, Ninemileburn, PenicuikMixed by Sophie Bancroft
and Tom Lyne at Hillshed Studio. Mastered
by: Tom Lyne at Hillshed Studio Photography:
Louis De Carlo CD Cover Designed by Tommy
Brown
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Dave
Milligan Trio
'Late Show'
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Personnel:
Dave
Milligan (piano), Tom Lyne
(bass), Tom Bancroft (drums & perc)
Produced by: Dave Milligan Engineered
by: Stuart Hamilton Recorded at: Castlesound
Studios, Pencaitland, Scotland.Mastered by: Tom
Lyne at Hillshed Studio Photography: Zoe
Maxwell Design/Layout by Lee Whitmarsh
/ Caber Music
All compositions by David Milligan
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details here at the Caber
Music website where you find reviews of
the album, gigs andbuy the cd online
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Dave
Milligan: Late Show (Caber)
John Fordham
Friday June 27, 2003
The Guardian CD of the week
"Lately, the arrival of new musical talents on the
Scottish jazz scene as documented by Caber has become a
bit of a phenomenon - and a joy to critics. When the label
staged its London showcase a few months ago, one of several
memorable performances came from pianist Dave Milligan,
a loose stylistic compatriot of Brad Mehldau and Keith Jarrett,
whose vocabulary has been augmented by years spent on his
local folk scene. He has a technique that opens rich possibilities
in almost any contemporary piano style.
This excellent disc features Milligan with the same sharply
sensitive trio that accompanied him on that occasion - Tom
Lyne on bass and Tom Bancroft on drums - and a remarkably
varied and high-quality original repertoire.
The music includes the rootsy leaping-reel feel of Small
World, the Mehldau-like ballad delicacy of Smile for Me,
the hovering minimalist drama of Piper's Bidding, some rousing
Bancroft bodhran drumming and the Monk-ish chordal whirl
and lopsided runs of Boiler Man, which is about a bloke
who fixes boilers to augment a jazz musician's income, yet
longs to be able to give up jazz in order to fix boilers
full time. If a small scene like Scotland's can hold two
piano giants like Brian Kellock and Milligan, who else is
around the corner?"
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Kevin
Mackenzie's
Vital Signs
'Another New Horizon'
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Personnel:
Kevin
MacKenzie (guitar)
Tom Bancroft (drums)
Phil Bancroft (tenor sax)
Tom Lyne (bass)
Martin Kershaw (alto sax)
Chick Lyall (piano)
Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle)
Simon Thoumire (concertina)
Chris Stout (fiddle)
All compositions by Kevin Mackenzie
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Album
Notes
Violins and saxophones; the lead actors of jazz, folk and
classical music seldom perform together quite like this.
The violin can wear many different hats. They include a
genteel instrument of string quartets, the blazing melodic
firebrand of traditional Celtic music, and the hardcore
fusion lead of a Mahavishnu-style outfit. The saxophone
has a similar range of personalities and this band's unique
range of sounds are built round the twin pairs of saxophones
and fiddles that make up it's front line, and the range
of sounds the composer coaxes from them. It's a very specific
sound. Imagine the soundtrack for an fictitious Tarantino
remake of an English TV sitcom crossed with Reservoir Dogs!
Consider an album collaboration between Prince, John McLaughlin,
John Barry and a East European who scores kids cartoons!
This music brilliantly juxtaposes the light and heavy extremes
of it's instrument's ranges to produce something very rich,
very romantic and original.
The
band's personnel represent something of a jazz-folk supergroup
featuring Aidan O'Rourke and Chris Stout, two of Scotland's
pre-eminent fiddlers from the modern traditional Celtic
scene. It also features the great composer and concertina
player/folk jazz pioneer Simon Thoumire to complete it's
folk section. The jazz firepower is wielded by the leader
on guitar, Chick Lyall on piano, Phil Bancroft on tenor
saxophone and Martin Kershaw on alto. All these names are
leading soloists from the Caber Music stable, all with albums
out under their own name and one of the joys of this cut
is the sound of accomplished soloists having a riot. The
rhythm section of Tom Lyne and Tom Bancroft who are two
thirds of the acclaimed Dave Milligan Trio, similarly sound
like they are having a lot of fun - in a groovier, heavier
vein.
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Sophie
Bancroft
'Modern Love
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New
release from LisaLeo records featuring Singer Songwriter Sophie
Bancroft in her most sophisticated setting to date. A sophisticated
modern pop classic with strong currents of smooth jazz passioned
by modern electronica sensibilities. Sophie's voice delivers
aspects of modern love that will make you close your eyes
and let the songs work their way in.
Personnel:
Sophie
Bancroft (voice & guitar), Sandy Wright
(guitar), Dave Milligan (piano),
Phil Bancroft (sax, flute, whistle), Tom
Lyne (bass), Donald Hay (drums
& perc), Alyn Cosker (drums) track 8,
Andrea Keller (piano) track 7.
Executive Producer: Phil Bancroft Co-Producers:
Tom Lyne & Sophie Bancroft Engineers: Dave
Gray & Tom Lyne Recorded at: Sound Cafe, Ninemileburn,
Penicuik Mastered by: Tom Lyne at Hillshed
Studio Photography: Marc Marnie CD Cover
Designed by Kenny Inglis @ i3 Media 2003
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Sophie
Bancroft &
Tom Lyne
'Miles Away'
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Having
previously worked together in the Sophie Bancroft and Gina
Rae band, Canadian
bassist Tom Lyne and Sophie began collaborating in
September 1998. With prestigious performances such as Edinburgh's
Hogmanay Festival the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, The Shetland
Jazz Festival and the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen, their first
CD release 'Miles Away' has been a huge success.
Personnel:
Sophie
Bancroft (voice & guitar), Tom Lyne
(bass & guitar)
Recorded,
mixed and mastered at HillShed Studios by Sophie and Tom.
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Granny
Smith
'Red Door'
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Granny
Smith 'Red Door' released 1996 by Rennet Records Holland
Recorded,
Engineered by Tom Lyne, Ross Mitson & Calder
Spanier at de Heksenlaak, Barchem, The Netherlands.
Mixed by Tom Ross & Dick Kemper at
S&K studio Doetinchem, The Netherlands
Personnel:
Tom Lyne electric and acoustic bass, Ross
Mitson lead vocals, bgs, electric and acoustic
guitars, Calder Spanier alto, soprano &
tenor Saxophones, keys, accordian and vocals. With the assistance
of a large international cast of musicians in alphabetical
order:
Victor de Boo - Drums, Gerard Bouwmeester
- Drums, Joost Buis - Trombone, Chiara
Furiani - Backing Vocals, Alan McLaughlan
- Lead Guitar, Jos Machtel - Trombone,
Tuba & Cornet, Jon Miller - Drums,
Lorentz Persson - Trombone & Backing
vocals, Felicity Provan - Trumpet, Twana
Rhodes - Backing Vocals, Alex Sonneveld
- Organ, Darko Tadic - Drums, Claus
Tofft - Percussion, Ute Apfelstedt
- Violin, Katja Reichenveld - Violin, Constantijn
van de Wetering - 1st Violin, Viola, Jonathon
van de Wetering - cello
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