Partisans live at Jazzfest Berlin 2010

Julian Siegel tenor and soprano sax, bass clarinet
Phil Robson guitar
Thaddeus Kelly e-bass
Gene Calderazzo drums
recorded live at Quasimodo, Berlin, November 7, 2010

1. Advance (Phil Robson)
2. MBadjers (Julian Siegel)
3. Partisans 2 (Wayne Krantz)
4. Lapdog (Phil Robson)
5. Whise child (Julian Siegel)
6. Sou puss (Phil Robson)

London-based jazz-rock band Partisans is the connecting link between the golden generation of British jazz around Django Bates, the Argüelles brothers, Iain Bellamy and the young lions such as Led Bib, the Portico Quartet and Acoustic Ladyland.
Founded by guitarist Phil Robson and saxophonist Julian Siegel in 1996, they soon created a musical world in its own right, somewhere between catchy funk grooves and the readiness to always challenge entrenched attitudes and pushing hearing expectations beyond their limits. The quartet’s unusual mixture of styles incorporates elements of all directions of jazz and beyond.
Whereas many musicians in their milieu wore themselves to the ground in alternating projects, Partisans showed how a band could function over a long period of time. Although they have merely recorded four CDs during the band's lifetime, these bear witness to a distinctive, captivatingly logical musical language that follows its very own grammar indeed.