Music
Recent recordings and projects
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Port Of Saints
Full 14 track album available on Discus Music.
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Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Dream Feathers
Full 9 track album available on Discus Music.
Read the reviews from The Wire magazine, Jazzwise and other highly respected publications. Read all reviews here...
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Les Oiseaux de Matisse
Full 9 track album available on Discus Music.
The album has received glowing reviews from The Wire magazine, All About Jazz, London Jazz News, Jazz Journal and other highly respected publications. Read all reviews here...
East of Eden
Gum Arabic / Confucius
Slobbering in mud and rubies
the idol Anubis dreams in the sea and the rain
of a bracelet, bearing four talismen
lost on African plains
Flickering in slow light movements
of her musicians
Eve pivots in the sun
blues and pink peal through saffire dust
strike up for the thin trapeze girl
Lyrics spoken and written by Ron Caines
From the album SNAFU, released 1970
Ron Caines / Andy Pyne
Basquiat Blues
Released 24 March 2015
Ron Caines - Tenor, Alto & Soprano Sax
Andy Pyne - Drums
Cover art by Ron Caines.
Available from Bandcamp
Ron Caines / Marcus O'Dair / Andy Pyne
Atlantide
"The trio delve enthusiastically into an area of improvisation owing much to the old Chicago free jazz model"
Selwyn Harris, Jazzwise, July 2010
Available from Foolproof Projects
Ron Caines / Andy Pyne
Continuous Line
"Caines has a terse, succinct tone, not given to overblown histrionics but content, instead, to discover languid,laconic melodies that smoulder with a kind of rueful wisdom."
Dan Spicer, Jazz Wise, 2009
Available from Foolproof Projects
Broken Star and Ron Caines
Radio Kaput Stern
Research
The Perpetual City
Ron Caines / Gus Garside
Tilt
"Earnest lyricism and sugar-free technical facility revealing a strenuous observation of the rules of soulfulness, every pitch resulting from a series of variables which the reedist seems to have complete control of."
Massimo Ricci, Rome 2011
Ron Caines / Alice Eldridge
Rothko Veil
Parker's Mood
Cassette on Flux Music, 1989
Ron Caines - Alto Saxophone
Nigel Jefferies - Piano
Bob Helson - Drums
Ted Brewster - Bass