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Raphael Clarkson

Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall: Fanfares & Freedom

by John Sharpe
March 11, 2025

Well this is an entertaining premise. Free jazz maven Paul Dunmall as featured soloist in a suite composed by up- and-coming trumpeter Laura Jurd. Actually, the reality is more complex. It might be more accurate to say that the unfettered spirits of Dunmall's quartet, with bassist Caius Williams, drummer Miles Levin and pianist Liam Noble, offer ...

You Are Here

By Kevin Figes

Label: Jazz Now
Released: 2024
Track listing: Thoughts To Geoff; Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening; Sweet F.A.; Improvisation #1; Cat Food; I Wish There Was A Nowhere; Improvisation #2; Traumatic Experience; Improvisation #3; Mra; Dedicated To Mingus; Improvisation #4; Cider Dance; Echoes.

Fanfares & Freedom

By Paul Dunmall

Label: Discus Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Fanfare 1; Opening Out; Onward Stomp; Toddle-oddle; Chorale; Fanfare 2.

Kevin Figes: You Are Here

by Jack Kenny
September 14, 2024

This is an intriguing album. It could have been titled “musicians in search of an identity." The album details Kevin Figes' history. His choice of pieces spells it out: Keith Tippett's work means so much to Figes. It is good to have a hero and to play his music; some of the long melodic lines and ...

Laura Jurd: Stepping Back, Jumping In

by Hrayr Attarian
December 19, 2019

English trumpeter Laura Jurd is a phenomenally creative composer and improviser who is unafraid to explore new musical ideas and defy genre boundaries. The 2019 addition to her intriguing discography, the multilayered Stepping Back, Jumping In is unique in its originality yet bearing Jurd's signature approach to stylistic fusion. Three performance spaces in the UK commissioned ...