Lol Coxhill soprano sax, George Haslam baritone sax, tarogato, Richard Leigh Harris piano, Steve Kershaw double bass.

From the creative impulse of Giovanni Sollima and Alessandro Gandola comes Astrolabioanima, a completely new musical project, an original combination in which composition and improvisation occur simultaneously. The unusual instrumental combination of Violincello and Soprano Saxophone creates a broad crossover spanning from the two artists’ backgrounds in Baroque music and jazz to include other musical genres such as rock, minimalism and folk music, with no self-imposed limits. The CD is the official creative documentation that led to the ASTROLABIOANIMA project. It contains the live recording of compositional improvisation, which turned out to be real compositions capable of thrills and surprise, thanks to the strength and freshness of a true creative gesture, documented in the immediacy of becoming.

Harry Beckett, George Haslam, Stefano Pastor, Richard Leigh Harris and Steve Kershaw recorded live at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford, September 2006.

"Holywell Session" by Haslam, Beckett, Pastor, Harris, Kershaw has been selected among the best records of the month by our staff of reviewers.  Musica Jazz Magazine.

Haslam on bass clarinet, baritone saxophone and tarogato improvising in Buenos Aires with old friends Daniel Harari, Mono Hurtado, Horacio Straijer, Ruben Ferrero and from New York, Hill Green.

SHaK plays a great selection of jazz standards given some refreshing arrangements inventive harmonies and adventurous improvising.

Big noise from Winnetka, My Romance, El Manicero, Yardbird Suite, Over the Rainbow, Alfie, Can't help loving that man, Morning After, Stella by Starlight, I guess I'll have to change my plan, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Blue Monk..