Paginini of Penge Dylan Bates is on Laura Jurd's upcoming album.
The charming 'Henry' with its rumbling undertow and Scottish feel (imagine the North Channel somehow transformed into the balmier Mediterranean given its warm cafe bar-like lilt) - new in the 1 luv track of the day spot - is one of three tracks streaming so far ahead of The Big Friendly Album Laura Jurd's latest which is to be released in September. Featured guests on this studio album that finds Laura switching from her customary trumpet to cornet and piano are Django's brother violin erstwhile wunderkind and still fresh faced Paganini of Penge Dylan Bates (Human), fine Ligeti attuned free improviser violinist Mandhira de Saram, accordionist Frode Haltli, the hugely admired still too underknown flautist Finn Peters and sax legend Mark Lockheart (Dreamers, Polar Bear). De Saram was on Jurd's 2012 album Landing Ground back in her Chaos Collective phase when Jurd first emerged as a protean fully fledged prog, jazz-rock and avant chamber jazz force to be reckoned with - only 21 when she recorded the album and which proved astonishingly cohesive and rewarding at the time. Jurd’s sound recalled long-ago Kenny Wheeler themes and as the album progressed intimations of Dave Douglas. Core Jurdians a decade on are euphonium player Martin Lee Thomson, tubaist Danielle Price, guitarist Alex Haines, bass guitar star Ruth Goller (Let Spin, Melt Yourself Down, Sarah Gillespie band etc) and drummer Corrie Dick. Tunes are by Jurd.
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