Tag: Matthew Halsall

  • Matthew Halsall: An Ever Changing View / Bright Sparkling Light

    Matthew Halsall: An Ever Changing View / Bright Sparkling Light

    Proudly rooted in Northern England and the Manchester jazz scene, influenced by global and electronic music and constantly returning to the ecstatic masterpieces of the early 1970s Afro-American spiritual jazz for inspiration, Matthew Halsall continues to enchant with an impeccable series of releases on his…

  • Matthew Halsall: Salute to the Sun

    Matthew Halsall: Salute to the Sun

    Drawing on the spiritual, ecstatic and eastern-influenced jazz of Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and Yusef Lateef, the music of Miles Davis of course, the Nu Jazz and electronica of The Cinematic Orchestra and a broad musical culture garnered as a regular DJ, Manchester-based trumpet player…

  • Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra: When the World was One

    Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra: When the World was One

    Recorded during the same session as the last two tracks of Matthew Halsall’s previous album Fletcher Moss Park (2012), When the World was One (June 2014) introduces seven new compositions featuring the Manchester-based composer, producer and DJ himself on trumpet and his “Gondwana Orchestra” –…

  • Matthew Halsall: The Sun in September

    Matthew Halsall: The Sun in September

    Matthew Halsall is a Manchester-based DJ, composer, arranger and jazz trumpet player whose music is increasingly looking eastwards and leaning towards the spiritual. Drawing inspiration from the modal jazz of the late 1950s/early 1960s (Miles Davis of course, John Coltrane and many Blue Note artists from…