The week ahead in gigs

Martin Taylor and Ulf Wakenius Band on the Wall Manchester Monday Vonda Shepard Music Room, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Liverpool Tuesday Chip Wickham Hare & Hounds Birmingham Wednesday We were on Cloud 10 so to speak back in July listening to the …

Published: 9 Oct 2022. Updated: 19 months.

Martin Taylor and Ulf Wakenius Band on the Wall Manchester Monday

Vonda Shepard Music Room, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Liverpool Tuesday

Chip Wickham Hare & Hounds Birmingham Wednesday

We were on Cloud 10 so to speak back in July listening to the track of the same name in a flowing spiritual-jazz space that landed somewhere as if time-travelling to a never to be found again Pharoah Sanders or Yusef Lateef oasis where a rare atmosphere of much sought-after serenity lives. The Chip Wickham album of the same name was recorded at the Estudio Brazil in Madrid. New GoGo Penguin drummer the much admired Jon Scott hangs the beat back to let it fertilise the groove while Nottingham-born pianist Phil Wilkinson, a former student of Darius Brubeck, is suitably decorative in context given some florid touches. In September UK indie jazz label Gondwana had a number one jazz and blues album on their hands with the record as Wickham topped the UK jazz and blues chart outselling Joshua Redman and his Moodswing band on LongGone even round about the middle of the month.

Zoe Rahman trio Firth Hall Sheffield Thursday

Simon Spillett quartet The Verdict Brighton Friday

The Colm O'Hara 10tet Arthur's Dublin Saturday

Saturday - Dublin, top

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The Comet Is Coming, Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, Impulse! ***

The latest helping of chunky riffs, skittering rhythms and cosmic keyboards from the futuristic trio The Comet Is Coming lands three years on from Trust In The Life Force Of the Deep Mystery and six years since their debut Channel the Spirits. Dan …

Published: 9 Oct 2022. Updated: 19 months.

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The latest helping of chunky riffs, skittering rhythms and cosmic keyboards from the futuristic trio The Comet Is Coming lands three years on from Trust In The Life Force Of the Deep Mystery and six years since their debut Channel the Spirits. Dan “Danalogue” Leavers on synths, Shabaka Hutchings on saxophone and Max “Betamax” Hallett on drums have again relied on their own sci-fi formula that crosses over into electronica and the dancefloor. Stripped down the essential sound is less maximalist than the pyrotechnics of 'Code' might suggest. And the sound is certainly strong on structure but overly reliant on the frills and furbelows of a tangled wire of synths that on album highlight 'Mystik' nonetheless gains ominous traction. If you are a Shabaka fan his best work this year isn't here because H-DEB can be wearying in its intensity but works OK in small blasts. More interesting by far is hearing Shabaka on the outstanding EP Afrikan Culture.