Press release: Stockport Jazz at the Moor Club, June 29 - Alex Clarke Quartet This week’s Stockport Jazz gig at the Moor Club features saxophonist Alex Clarke with the Eryl Roberts Trio (Richard Wetherall - piano, Joshua Cavanagh-Brierley - bass, Eryl Roberts - drums)Sunday June 298-10pm, doors open at 7.30pm£5 entry on the door, all welcomeThe Moor Club, 35 Heaton Moor Road, Stockport SK4 4PB (next door to the Elizabethan PH)
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Why is it so difficult to learn and master a musical instrument? Quora, that amazing site that pontificates on every subject under and above the sun recently posed/posted a question that most of our readers will often have asked themselves as I doubt if there is anyone who hasn't at one point in their life attempted to learn or at least thought about learning a musical instrument.The answers are illuminating and as much inspiring as they are discouraging. One
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Album review: Hilary Gardner - On the Trail with the Lonesome Pines (self-released) Hilary Gardner (vocals); Justin Poindexter (guitar, mandolin, organ, background vocals); Noah Garabedian (bass); Aaron Thurston (drums, perc.); Sasha Papernik (accordion on tks 4, 5).I initially dismissed this as 'not my shot of Red Eye'. I mean jazz and country? Buddy Rich and I share allergies on this one. However, yesterday Jim Self's America 3 arrived. The two albums are mining the same lode
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Album review: Jim Self - My America 3 (Basset Hound Records) Jim Self (tubas, fluba); Kye Palmer (trumpet, flugel); Bill Booth (trombone, euphonium); Phil Feather (alto/tenor sax, flute); Steve Marsh (tenor sax, clarinet); Chris Woods (country fiddle); Doug Livingston (pedal steel guitar); John Chiodini (electric/acoustic guitars); Steve Fister (electric/Dobro/slide guitars); Bill Cunliffe (piano); Mike Valerio, Ken Wild (basses); Joe LaBarbera (drums);
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Album review: Sergei Nakariakov/Maria Meerovitch - Garland of Sonnets (Luiza Records, 2025) Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet/flugelhorn, co-arranger); Maria
Meerovitch (piano, co-arranger) 

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visionary performer, especially one as sonorously inquisitive and brazen as
trumpet virtuoso Sergei Nakariakov (see his indescribable performance of Jörg
Widmann’s Ad Absurdum) will always relish the role of explorer and
discoverer. With Garland of Sonnets, Nakariakov, brilliantly accompanied
by
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