Anders Jormin, 'Blue Lamp,' ECM ***

Track of the day: drawn from Pasado en claro - in English, 'Clear Past' - from bass icon Anders Jormin with Swedish trad singer and fiddler Lena Willemark, koto player Karin Nakagawa and drummer Jon Fält out on 20 January. If new to Jormin …

Published: 12 Dec 2022. Updated: 15 months.

Track of the day: drawn from Pasado en claro - in English, 'Clear Past' - from bass icon Anders Jormin with Swedish trad singer and fiddler Lena Willemark, koto player Karin Nakagawa and drummer Jon Fält out on 20 January.

If new to Jormin check the Swede's extraordinary work firstly as a sideman on for the ages Tomasz Stańko album Leosia.

Willemark and Jormin began working together on 2004's In Winds, In Light.

The pair worked with Nakagawa on Trees of Light released seven years ago.

The upcoming ECM album puts the work of Mexican writer Octavio Paz (1914-1998) centrestage for the chief reason that the album title is the same as a long autobiographical poem by Paz written in Mexico and Cambridge, Massachusetts, dating to 1974. Two voices exist at the same time in the poem weaving present truth and past reinvention. The last line of the poem translated into English is ''I am the shadow cast by my words.'' The ancient runnings and global concatenations of 'Blue Lamp' itself draw together many strands in this luminescent art music and include a very expressive solo from Jormin after the stark and beautiful vocal's main exposition.

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Anders Jormin, photo: Hreinn Gudlaugsson

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Georgia Mancio and Dave Ohm take up the running at Hugh & Marion's

South East London's Eltham Jazz Club newly christened Hugh and Marion's turns a new page in its history as singer Georgia Mancio and drummer Dave Ohm take on the running of the club naming the regular night in honour of Hugh and Marion Ockendon who …

Published: 12 Dec 2022. Updated: 16 months.

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South East London's Eltham Jazz Club newly christened Hugh and Marion's turns a new page in its history as singer Georgia Mancio and drummer Dave Ohm take on the running of the club naming the regular night in honour of Hugh and Marion Ockendon who promoted jazz in Eltham for many years. A re-opening concert is planned for next month. Hugh, who died in 2020, was a pianist, and Marion continued their work together until she too passed away in the autumn.

Best known for her work with the iconic pianist and arranger Alan Broadbent, Parliamentary Jazz Award winning Georgia curated and ran London's acclaimed ReVoice festival.

For this new venture together with her partner Dave - son of the acclaimed actor Peter Vaughan (Grouty in Porridge) and best known for his live work with Gregory Porter circa Water and Be Good - the pair plan to present Thursday concerts in season every other week, commenting: ''We will do our best to nurture the club and make it thrive for as long as possible, knowing how precious and essential music, art, creativity, community and connection are for us all.''

Coming up is Sarah Moule and Shireen Francis who appear in Eltham on Thursday night; Georgia then sings on 12 January leading a quartet that features flautist Gareth Lockrane; saxophonist Allison Neale follows on the 26th; the legendary singer Elaine Delmar appears on 9 February; tenor saxophone star Denys Baptiste plays the club on 23 Feb; jazz vocals icon Liane Carroll follows on 9 March; and influential saxophonist Stan Sulzmann appears on 23 March. Hugh and Marion's is based in the clubhouse of the Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Road, London SE9.

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