Moonlight Saving Time

Moonlight Saving Time: Meeting At Night

by Roger Farbey
November 11, 2015

"Clouds" opens this set with a barely audible intake of breath, Emily Wright's dulcet voice, augmented in resplendent harmony by multi-tracking, is instantly indicative of her prodigious ability. The “Englishness" of Wright's vocal delivery is also obvious on the title track (with words by Victorian poet Robert Browning), where at times she channels that doyenne of British jazz, Norma Winstone. It's here too that Nick Malcolm turns in a fluid trumpet solo and guest saxophonist Jason Yarde contributes an alto ...