Jazz Articles about Raymond MacDonald & Graeme Wilson

Raymond MacDonald & Graeme Wilson: A Cast of Thousands

by Duncan Heining
August 30, 2017

Raymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson are two of the leading figures in the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. The music on Cast Of Thousands may be freely improvised but the emphasis here seems very much upon structure and form. One suspects that MacDonald and Wilson's lengthy experience playing together allows each man to trust the other and that it is this that gives A Cast Of Thousands its sense of completeness and coherence. Mutual awareness and communication are key to the record's ...