‘Live At Blues West 14’ is Mo Foster’s fourth solo album. Foster reflects: “Musicians tend to loosen up in a club setting: away from the pressures of the studio or the concert platform they feel generally more relaxed, new ideas are tried, and they feel free to re-interpret old favourites.”
The progenitor of one of rock’s best known bands, formed in the UK with Mick Ralphs and David Tedstone on guitars, Stan Tippins on vocals, Dale Griffin on drums and Pete Watts on bass, the Doc Thomas Group toured Italy, recording this tight and buzzing R’n’B set for local label Dischi Interrecord in January 1967.
In 1999, bass supremo Mo Foster was to follow up his critically- acclaimed studio releases ‘Bel Assis’ and ‘Southern Reunion’ with this more experimental and improvisational set.
Rod Clements of Lindisfarne speaks to Jason Barnard about their imminent Magic In The Air UK tour, the new 'Radio Times – Live At The BBC 1971-1990' box set and Lindisfarne’s enduring appeal.
Two years after the release of his solo debut ‘Bel Assis’, ‘Southern Reunion’ comprises a second collection of instrumental observations and ideas by one of Britain’s finest bassists.
One of the UK’s most successful folk-rock bands of the 70s, Lindisfarne is celebrated this April (2023) with the release of Radio Times - Live At The BBC 1971-1990, the definitive take on the band’s time at the Corporation constituting over eight hours of recordings over 8 discs.
Recorded between October 1987 and January 1988 with an enviable line-up of music talent, ‘Bel Assis’ is bassist supremo Mo Foster’s first solo album.
Folk rockers Lindisfarne continue their 2023 Magic In The Air UK tour with more dates this autumn.
The late Neil Ardley was one of the leading lights in the creatively fecund period enjoyed by British jazz music during the 1960s and '7os and her biography of the man by his partner Vivien Ardley is a very welcome addition to the libraries around the lives of the talent he nurtured and co-opted into his many projects, notably the sublime New Jazz Orchestra.
“Magnificent lavish compositions and arrangements adding up to an album that above all extolled love as eternalised in the simple things so easily overlooked, and in the heightened sensual moment jazz celebrates.”
