Tyler Mitchell album Dancing Shadows featuring Marshall Allen is a January release

There can't be many 97-year-olds releasing jazz albums. Remarkably the Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen is and the saxophonist is on the surprisingly accessible bassist Tyler Mitchell Mahakala Music release Dancing Shadows which is a fabulous …

Published: 7 Dec 2021. Updated: 2 years.

There can't be many 97-year-olds releasing jazz albums. Remarkably the Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen is and the saxophonist is on the surprisingly accessible bassist Tyler Mitchell Mahakala Music release Dancing Shadows which is a fabulous riff-heavy ultra loose sextet album to be released in January.

The album includes 'Interstellar Low Ways' going back to a 1966 Saturn label release and a Sun Ra composition which has appeared on several records including going back to the 1970s the Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra's 1974 release for Impulse Angels And Demons At Play.

Dancing Shadows also includes a version of Thelonious Monk composition 'Skippy' that goes back to 1952.

Mitchell became part of the Sun Ra Arkestra story in the 1980s hooking up again with the Arkestra in more recent years. Sun Ra fans may know Mitchell from the Reflections in Blue and Hours After albums.

Also on the upcoming record are Chris Hemingway on tenor sax, Nicoletta Manzini, alto, Wayne Smith on drums and Elson Nascimento on percussion.

Marshall goes back as far as 1958 with the Sun Ra Arkestra. The upcoming album includes melodic themes and free-wheeling invigorating excursions and includes some Mitchell compositions and some by altoist Nicoletta Manzini who Allen has championed. Marshall Allen top left and Tyler Mitchell

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Matthew Bourne, Orphy Robinson and Karen Street are in the line-up for January's Bath Jazz Weekend

Bare bone details at the moment but here is what is in store in the line-up for January's Bath Jazz Weekend presented by legendary UK jazz promoter Nod Knowles and his All of the Above company. The Friday programme includes a screening of The Last …

Published: 7 Dec 2021. Updated: 2 years.

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Bare bone details at the moment but here is what is in store in the line-up for January's Bath Jazz Weekend presented by legendary UK jazz promoter Nod Knowles and his All of the Above company.

The Friday programme includes a screening of The Last of the Blue Devils a 1979 documentary directed by Bruce Ricker followed by Theo May's Odd Unit (Theo May/Gustavo Clayton-Marucci/Will Bracken/Ali Watson/Alex Temple-Heald) and Karen Street's L'esprit du jazz (Karen Street/Sam Dunn/Charlie Pyne/Katie Patterson).

The Saturday line-up begins in the afternoon and continues throughout the day with Rebecca Nash's Redefining Element 78 (Rebecca Nash/Nick Malcolm/Paul Michael/Matt Fisher), Matthew Bourne (solo), Robert Mitchell's True Think (Robert Mitchell/Tom Mason/Saleem Raman/Zayn Mohammed/Alice Zawadzki), Orphy Robinson (solo vibes) and the Paul Dunmall quintet (Paul Dunmall/Steven Saunders/James Owston/Jim Bashford/Richard Foote).

The Sunday programme also begins in the afternoon running until the evening with Comfort in Chaos (Harriet Riley/Pete Judge/Jo Silvorphorperston/Stevie Toddler/Caelia Lunniss/Matt Brown/Jj/ Danni Willey/Hazel Mills), Andrew McCormack (solo) and the Jake McMurchie Quartet (Jake McMurchie/Dan Moore/Riaan Vosloo/Matt Brown). To be held once again at Widcombe Social Club the Bath Jazz Weekend runs from Friday 7-Sunday 9 January. Tickets. Karen Street, main photo top. Orphy Robinson above