Pete Johnstone

Richard Glassby: Travels

by Pat Youngspiel
June 23, 2023

On his second recording, Travels, Scottish drummer Richard Glassby makes a giant leap forward from his debut Eclipse (self-produced, 2020), catapulting his take on the post-bop idiom to a whole new level, with a little help from pianist Pete Johnstone, tenor saxophonist Matthew Kilner and bassist Ewan Hastie. While his last album saw the drummer playing things rather safe, at times not quite able to muster the scope of vocabulary necessary to tread these harmonic waters, Travels proves a new ...