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Martin France / Spin Marvel: Spin Marvel
by John Kelman
Appearances can be deceptive. Martin France has built a career over the past two decades in largely acoustic environs. Along with being a member of the cooperative ECM group First House from the late 1980s, the British drummer has been involved in over fifty projects, including saxophonist Iain Ballamy's More Jazz (Basho, 2007) and pianist Gwilym ...
Tom Arthurs & Richard Fairhurst: Mesmer
by Chris May
One of Britain's brightest young trumpet/flugelhorn talents--he was nominated for Rising Star in the BBC Jazz Awards in 2004 and is so nominated again this year (the results are due later this month)--Tom Arthurs' progress towards wider breakthrough appears admirably nonchalant. Indeed, on occasion he seems as focused on his skills as a chocolatier and pastry ...
Let's Call This...
Label: Babel Label
Released: 2006
Track listing: We See; Spells; Alone Together; The Electric Ant; Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love; Let's Call This; Peonies (After Hiroshige); Cells; Angelica; I'm At Your Throat Now; Subconscious-lee; Bells.
Everything We Love And More
By Huw Warren
Label: Babel Label
Released: 2006
Track listing: Habibi; Innocent Urban; And The Kitchen Sink; Happy (As Larry); Sachte; The Art Of Hairdressing; Coup De Soleil; Freckle Counting; How About This?; Bass Choir; Kuuru Bizu; Interlude/Whistling Rufus; Friendly Fire 3; Both Levels; Mil Harddach; Deep End.
Su-Ling
By Finn Peters
Label: Babel Label
Released: 2006
Track listing: Al Dar Gazelli; Gato; Red Fish; Ballad Boy; Su-Ling; N.R. Shackleton Goes To The Circus; Nelson's Blood; Fast Fish, Loose Fish; Machine Gun.
Squash Recipe
By Tom Arthurs
Label: Babel Label
Released: 2006
Track listing: Overwrought; Ek-clesiastical; The Floorboard Variations; Exercise #15; Touched; Banffalo; Refractal; Cerebral Blip; P2C2E.
Huw Warren & Peter Herbert: Everything We Love And More
by Chris May
He may be best known for his work with Perfect Houseplants and June Tabor, but pianist/composer Huw Warren's own albums are amongst the most precious treasures of the British jazz scene. Last autumn, Warren gave us one of 2005's highlights with Duw A Wyr. A characteristically free-spirited and well-realised set, the album featured ...
Ingrid Laubrock & Liam Noble: Let's Call This...
by Chris May
Though she's frequently heard on soprano saxophone, which she uses throughout this vividly painted little masterpiece of a disc, bandleader and composer Ingrid Laubrock has probably made her biggest impact as an instrumentalist on tenor. On the most recent release by her own band, Forensic (F-IRE, 2004), and in live performances with her own quintet and ...
Finn Peters: Su-Ling
by Chris May
On Su-Ling, his acoustic band's debut album, F-IRE Collective founding member Finn Peters is thinking big. The scope of stylistic influences is broad, and his arrangements are nuanced to suggest a considerably larger lineup than a quintet. At its most immediate, the album is reminiscent of the orchestrated tracks on Wayne Shorter's Alegria (Verve, 2003). Gorgeous ...
Tom Arthurs / Bruce McKinnon / Joe Sorbara: Squash Recipe
by Chris May
When a young artist like Tom Arthurs--still only 26--gets feted as the Next Big Thing, the pressure to satisfy the technicolour expectations of media, record company and audience can really mess with his head. Next thing you know, he'll release an album which attempts to climb too high too fast... and then there's tears. Following the ...
