Jazz Articles about Laura Jurd

About Laura Jurd

Album Review

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 ...

Album Review

Dinosaur: Together, As One

Read "Together, As One" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
August 7, 2016

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 ...