Nick Weldon Discography of CDs

Nick Weldon music CDs Recorded between 1979 & 1991. Includes liner notes by Scott Schnider. In the late 1970s/early '80s, Joe Jackson was one of the quintessential "angry young men" of New Wave, who brought skinny ties and chip-on-shoulder sentiments to rock & roll with a surfeit of verve. Along with Elvis Costello and Graham Parker (and less-famous names like Tom Dickie and D.L. Byron), Jackson married the urgency of full-on rock ...

Nick Weldon CD discography Like his fellow Angry Young Man/New Wave archetype Elvis Costello, Jackson's musical abilities/interests were always too broad to be straightjacketed by pop-rock. The deep reggae grooves of 1980's criminally under-rated BEAT CRAZY were the first sign of this, and the following year's JUMPIN JIVE made that fact abundantly clear. Flouting commercial appeal, Jackson made an album that pays tribute to the jump blues of Louis Jordan, Cab ...

Nick Weldon albums Led by drummer Tommy Chase, and also featuring Alan Barnes (alto/tenor sax), Nick Weldon (piano), and Andrew Cleyndert, this British quartet makes no bones about playing hard bop on this 1983 session. The phrase hard bop is not only referred to in the title; it's also used as the very first two words of the liner notes. Certainly, the album's revivalist in nature; it sounds as if ...