Chris Hyde-Harrison

Estraven: Ignored Advice

by Chris May
February 14, 2022

South London band Estraven's debut album is a pleasure and a breath of fresh air: a novel chunk of acoustic jazz which avoids what has become, in 2022, the South London scene's default focus on grooves and dancefloors. Ignored Advice ploughs its own furrow. The young piano-less quartet is led by bassist and composer Chris Hyde-Harrison and completed by tenor saxophonist Duncan Eagles, drummer Matt Parkinson and French-born guitarist Alban Claret, who plays an electric instrument with ...