Django Bates
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After the Last Sky
RecommendedAnja Lechner (cello), Django Bates (piano), Anouar Brahem (artisticconception, oud), Dave Holland (doublebass)
Brahem always strives to bring together different cultures, not to homogenise them but to celebrate what he describes a ‘collective inspiration’. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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After the Last Sky
RecommendedAnouar Brahem (oud), Anja Lechner (cello), Django Bates (piano), Dave Holland (double bass)
Brahem always strives to bring together different cultures, not to homogenise them but to celebrate what he describes a ‘collective inspiration’. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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Blue Maqams
Anouar Brahem (oud), Dave Holland (double bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums), Django Bates (piano)
Twenty-five years on from his first jazz collaboration, this new album is a reminder of just how natural the combination of blues notes and taqsim (the traditional form of improvisation) can... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Jazz Choice
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Tenacity sometimes feels like an idiosyncratic birthday party, not just for Bird and Bates, but for a liberating century in the world’s music-making, too. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, October 2020
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2020
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The Guardian, Jazz Album of the Month, October 2020
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Blue Maqams
Anouar Brahem (oud), Dave Holland (double bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums), Django Bates (piano)
Twenty-five years on from his first jazz collaboration, this new album is a reminder of just how natural the combination of blues notes and taqsim (the traditional form of improvisation) can... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Jazz Choice
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Saluting Sgt. Pepper
Django Bates (multi-instrumentalist), Frankfurt Radio Big Band, Eggs Laid By Tigers
Bates’ superlative musicality and witty, creative vivacity should keep fear at bay, and after one good listen (and growing with each successive spin), it becomes clear that the distinctive keyboardist-composer-conceptualist... —
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12 Jazz Visits in Copenhagen 1996
Jerry Bergonzi, Hass, Svare Quintet, James Moody, Pass The Butter, Fisher, Stolle, Lundgård, Part Of A Circle, Bent Jædig Quartet, Herlin Riley, Fessors Big City Band, Riel, Ray Anderson, Fred Wesley, The Danish Radio Big Band, Palle Danielson, Jacob Fisher, Maj-Britt Kramer Group, Andy Sheppard,...
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Storyville Presents The A-Z Jazz Encyclopedia-B
Django Bates (multi-instrumentalist), Chris Barber, Papa Bue's Viking jazzband, Acker Bilk (clarinet)
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Exile
Sidsel Endresen (voice), Bugge Wesseltoft (keyboards), David Darling (cello), Jon Christensen (percussion), Jon Christensen (drums), Django Bates (piano), Django Bates (tenor horn), Nils Petter Molvaer (trumpet)
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Cantilena
Ken Stubbs (alto saxophone), Django Bates (piano/tenor horn), Mick Hutton (bass), Martin France (drums)
