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Brilliant Corners 2020
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners 2020 Various Venues Belfast, N. Ireland February 27 to March 7, 2020 Maybe it's global warming, for just as the first bloom of spring in these strange times appears in February, so too, Brilliant Corners starts ever earlier. From its first, modest edition over three days in mid-March 2013, Belfast's only jazz festival has gradually fattened into a ten-day feast. But instead of reaching towards the warmer days of Spring, ...
Continue ReadingLaura Jurd: Stepping Back, Jumping In
by Hrayr Attarian
English trumpeter Laura Jurd is a phenomenally creative composer and improviser who is unafraid to explore new musical ideas and defy genre boundaries. The 2019 addition to her intriguing discography, the multilayered Stepping Back, Jumping In is unique in its originality yet bearing Jurd's signature approach to stylistic fusion. Three performance spaces in the UK commissioned various parts of the album and one provided the recording studios for it. For the session Jurd has augmented her working band. Dinosaur, with ...
Continue ReadingLaura Jurd: Stepping Back, Jumping In
by Vincenzo Roggero
Avevamo incontrato il nome di Laura Jurd nell'album Together, as One, debutto discografico dell'ottimo quartetto Dinosaur, gruppo tra i più significativi della nuova, effervescente scena britannica. Tra i pregi di quell'album la sorprendente maturità di scrittura e l'autorevole leadership della Jurd, qualità pienamente avvalorate e rafforzate da questo nuovo e ambizioso lavoro. Perché in Stepping Back, Jumping In la giovane trombettista britannica assembla una formazione di una decina di musicisti dal variegato background a cui aggiunge un quartetto d'archi specializzato ...
Continue ReadingLaura Jurd: Stepping Back, Jumping In
by Roger Farbey
Laura Jurd's Stepping Back, Jumping In was commissioned by the major London music venue, King's Place, as part of its “Venus Unwrapped" series. Jurd debuted her project at the venue on March 1, 2019 followed by St George's Bristol and The Sage, Gateshead on March 4 and 5, 2019 where this album was recorded. The tonal colour and eccentric rhythmic dynamics of Jurd's “Jumping In" instantly mark this as no ordinary event. The juxtaposition of spasmodic banjo, euphonium ...
Continue ReadingDinosaur Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
by BIMHUIS
These four twenty-somethings have each established their own name in British jazz. The most prominent name in Dinosaur is trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd, who has previously been voted BBC New Generation Artist. The accessible synth pop of the 1980s is an important influence on the recent album Wonder Trail (Edition Records), on which she also plays synth and sings. Elliot Galvin's synthesizers also play an important role on the album. Galvin has played the BIMHUIS before with his own ...
Continue ReadingDinosaur: Wonder Trail
by Roger Farbey
This is the long-awaited follow-up to Dinosaur's 2016 debut album Together, As One. But the de facto debut by this quartet actually took place on Laura Jurd's first, highly inventive, album Landing Ground released in 2012 on the Chaos Collective label, which she co-founded. In 2015 she released a second album under her own name, the pop/rock-infused Human Spirit with elegant vocals from Lauren Kinsella. Jurd and her fellow Dinosaur band members all graduated from London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of ...
Continue ReadingDinosaur: Together, As One
by Roger Farbey
Dinosaur is a new British jazz “supergroup" of sorts, featuring up and coming virtuoso trumpeter Laura Jurd and keyboardist extraordinaire Elliot Galvin. It's no surprise that Jurd received the United Kingdom's Parliamentary Jazz Award for “Instrumentalist of the Year" in 2015. Galvin released his second, highly acclaimed album Punch in 2016, also on Edition Records, and is surely in poll position as the presumptive heir to the brilliant Django Bates in the British jazz keyboardist stakes. The quartet is completed ...
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