Pianist Alex Maguire and the fine Belgian jazz and jazz-rock musicians team up to launch a repertoire ranging from lyrical to groovy tunes, haunting melodies, free improvisation and high-energy interaction. Maguire's Belgian sextet includes Jean-Paul Est Keyboardist Alex Maguire is a ...

Drummer Pip Pyle is not exactly a household name in North America, but he was a major player in the English Canterbury scene of the early 1970s, occupying the drum chair on Gong's highly influential Camembert Electrique, co-founding Hatfield and ...

Alex Maguire albums. The morphing of Canterbury jazz fusion into prog rock has been a slow but steady changing of the guard, headlined by the participants of the trio dubbed douBt. Electric keyboardist Alex Maguire, electric guitarist Michel Delville, and drummer Tony Bianco ...

Alex Maguire CD discography. Usually landing somewhere between free jazz and more standard fusion, Psychic Warrior's debut album, as expected, is rather in-line with the school of electric British fusion jazz that descends from the Soft Machine's early-'70s lineups (of which Psychic Warrior's Elton ...

Alex Maguire music CDs. Moorsong, saxophonist Elton Dean's fourth recording for Cuneiform, is comprised of three very different sessions. The bulk of the album (the first five tracks) showcases Dean with Alex Maguire (Hammond organ), Fred T. Baker (bass), and Liam Genockey (drums). This ...

The compositions on Kid's Mysteries, all by Bergin, are buoyant and swinging, taking as their starting point the infectious melodies and rhythms of South African township jazz. Listeners familiar with the work of Dudu Pukwana and Mongezi Feza will find themselves at home here, even though the soloists, perhaps taking a cue from the work of Chris MacGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, take things a little further into the free jazz realm. Drummer Han Bennink does his usual superb job at both keeping the proceedings moving forward and prodding the musicians with unexpected accents. Among others, the under-recorded pianist Alex Maguire and reedist Michael Moore make delicious elaborations on Bergin's catchy themes. A very nice album in and of itself, Kid's Mysteries can also serve as a seductive introduction into the kaleidoscopic Dutch avant-garde jazz scene. ~ Brian Olewnick Personnel: Sean ...

Recording information: Gateway Studio, Kingston-Upon-Thames (04/08/2001). Personnel: Alex Ward (clarinet); Gail Brand (trombone); Alex Maguire (piano); Simon H. Fell (double bass); Steve Noble (drums). Liner Note Author: Simon H. Fell.