Already the arrangements on the recording were beginning to loosen and lengthen as the quartet explored their live malleability. Source: LondonJazz: REVIEW : Laura Jurd’s Dinosaur at the Hare & Hounds, Birmingham (first night of tour)
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Dinosaur date in Birmingham to start the jazz year
I know we’ve a good chunk of 2016 still to enjoy but a heads-up for a top choice in early ’17: Laura Jurd’s Dinosaur will be playing a Jazzlines gig at the Hare And Hounds on Wednesday 18 January. Dinosaur… Read More ›
Dinosaur – Together, As One
(Edition Records) It’s somewhere in the middle of Extinct, track six on this album, that I finally get close to articulating in my mind what has been increasingly clear since the first sounds have emerged from the speakers. I’ve heard… Read More ›
Jasper Høiby – Fellow Creatures
(Edition Records) The Copenhagen-born double bassist has had strong connections with the British jazz scene since he came to London in 2000 to study at the Royal Academy. His trio, Phronesis, with pianist Ivo Neame and drummer Anton Eger, has… Read More ›
Huw V Williams – Hon
(Chaos Collective) The bassist from North Wales has a quintet with Laura Jurd on trumpet, Alam Nathoo on tenor, Elliot Galvin on accordion and piano, and Peter Ibbetson. All the compositions are by Williams. After a gently harmonied brief intro… Read More ›
Final Jazz On 3 Recording
Cockpit Theatre, London 29-02-2016 Jazz On 3 has broadcast for the last 18 years on its Monday night 11pm slot on BBC Radio 3 and has been a leading influence in the development of the UK scene over that period…. Read More ›
Corrie Dick – Impossible Things
(Chaos Collective) This brings together elements of the many bands that include young London drummer Corrie Dick in their personnel: it’s an expansion of his Little Lions trio with organist Joe Webb and pianist Matt Robinson; it has strong vocal… Read More ›
Blue-Eyed Hawk metamorphose this evening
They took their name from a W.B. Yeats’ poem and literature feeds into their music in a big way via vocalist Lauren Kinsella. Lauren and the rest of Blue-Eyed Hawk – trumpeter Laura Jurd, guitarist Alex Roth and drummer Corrie Dick – are… Read More ›
Engines Orchestra + Phil Meadows Group – Lifecycles
(engines imprint EAN: 0700 987779677) Opening tracks on albums matter, especially if it’s a group new to the listener. It’s a chance to lay out the musical stall, to show the breadth of what’s likely to be on offer in… Read More ›
Blue-eyed Hawk – Under The Moon
(Edition Records EDN1054) After a few hours listening to a conventional saxophone, piano, bass and drums quartet, it’s quite a shock and a novelty to turn to this band, something of a London music college grad supergroup : Lauren Kinsella on… Read More ›
Dankworth composition prize winners to be announced next week
Exciting news for all those who put pen to manuscript paper – or cursor to Sibelius – is that winners of the 2014 Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition will be announced next week. The Musicians’ Company, for it is they… Read More ›
The week’s Midland gigs move from urban to rural
A lot of the jazz world has taken August off, whether to take part in the major European festivals or to just chill out with a book on a beach, but there are still some intrepid folk prepared to stay… Read More ›
Gig review: Laura Jurd Quartet
The Red Lion, Birmingham UK 21-06-2013 Trumpeter Laura Jurd brought her regular Quartet band mates – Elliot Galvin on piano, Conor Chaplin on electric bass and Corrie Dick on drums – to the upstairs Club Room of this excellent Jewellery… Read More ›
Young trumpeter leads this week’s pick of the Midland gigs
Birmingham Jazz has backed a winner this week and tempted young trumpeter Laura Jurd and her band up from London. I think this could be her first gig in the West Midlands since her debut album, Landing Ground, made considerable… Read More ›
CD review: Laura Jurd
Landing Ground (Chaos Collective) Trumpeter Laura Jurd has assembled an octet – trumpet, piano, double bass and drums plus a string quartet – to play what feels – in coherence of mood and harmony – like a cohesive suite of her own… Read More ›
