Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Jazz still has this wild, perhaps unfounded large target placed upon its broad, rather muscular shoulders, that it is all about the improvisation, or worse the same detractors will then start shouting the odds on how it perhaps placed firmly into the stale arena. This is partly in thanks to the limited knowledge of those who wander in off the streets without at least reading up, even slightly, on the extensive and abundant subject.
White Canvas at the Capstone Theatre (2015), Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
From the planting of a single tiny acorn, White Canvas has flowered, grown and developed a sound that in two short years is so good it practically wears a halo and has no need for repentance for anything it does.
Two years after making their debut as part of the Liverpool International Jazz Festival at the Capstone Theatre, White Canvas returned to the stage inside the acoustically captivating building. What transpired, what was placed before the audience was music of an intrepid, fearless and enjoyable nature, resolute in undertaking, serious enough to appeal to the purist and yet with the subtle side wink of the cheeky added to give it body and grace.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Liverpool’s International Jazz Festival held at the Capstone Theatre continues to go from strength to strength and its ability to be greater than the sum of its parts is something in which Liverpool’s music community should take immense pride in; especially when it is fuses the music on offer within its walls to include a hybrid of sound so full of quality that its overflows the senses for the first time listener and holds close to its amalgamated heart those that have followed it for a while.
Legendary former Byrds frontman and founding member, Roger McGuinn returns for a string of U.K. dates this September. The Bryds’ era defining songs like Eight Miles High, Mr Tambourine Man, Turn, Turn, Turn and All I Really Wanna Do became classics of the new folk rock sound.
McGuinn’s trademark Rickenbacker 12 string sound has influenced generations of musicians and this superb show will draw from his huge back catalogue, including his Grammy-nominated project, Treasures From The Folk Den, his critically acclaimed 4 C.D. Box Set, The Folk Den Project and 22 Timeless Tracks From The Folk Den
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Take a break from the Capstone’s extensive music programme and immerse yourself into theatre as The Capstone is delighted to welcome two theatre companies this autumn. Uncanny Theatre will be presenting the fringe production of Instructions for a Better Life on Thursday 24th October, followed by one of Shakespeare’s most popular works as Traffic of the Stage present Much Ado About Nothing on Thursday 14th November.