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Brian Molley Quartet: Intercontinental

Read "Intercontinental" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 19, 2022

Scottish saxophonist Brian Molley is no stranger to Indian music, having toured India several times since 2015. Rather than merely presenting his music, Molley has sought to expand it, collaborating with the Rajasthani singer & sarangi player Asin Langa and, at the Madras Jazz Festival in 2017, with percussionist Krishna Kishor. Since then, the Brian Molley Quartet (BMQ) has returned to India twice, collaborating with Kishor each time. Intercontinental, recorded remotely between Glasgow and Chennai in 2021, is the fruit ...

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Brian Molley Quartet: Colour And Movement

Read "Colour And Movement" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 9, 2017

Twelve tunes in twelve keys and twelve time signatures form the body of work that makes up Colour And Movement, from Scotland's Brian Molley Quartet. Lest the previous sentence makes the album sound too much like a somewhat esoteric musical exercise, it's important to add that Colour And Movement is richly textured, high on melody and filled with readily accessible music. Colour And Movement is the quartet's follow-up to debut album Clocks (BGMM, 2013). There's no change to ...

Album Review

Brian Molley Quartet: Clock

by Bruce Lindsay
November 20, 2013

Clock suggests consistency, the regular tick and tock of seconds, minutes and hours moving inexorably onward. Reliable, necessary, but a bit lacking in variation--and as for swing, that would never do, not in a clock. So the title of this Scottish quartet's debut album is somewhat misleading, because the Brian Molley Quartet swings mightily. Molley, saxophonist and composer, is joined by a rhythm section of impeccable style: bassist Mario Caribé, pianist Tom Gibbs and drummer Stuart Brown. Molley, ...