Han solo: fly casual

Here's the spectacular lead-off track from Connie Han's Iron Starlet. A 23-year-old pianist and composer with prodigious technique, Han shares some common ground with Christian Sands. On the upcoming record Han is with bassist Ivan Taylor and …

Published: 8 Apr 2020. Updated: 19 months.

Here's the spectacular lead-off track from Connie Han's Iron Starlet. A 23-year-old pianist and composer with prodigious technique, Han shares some common ground with Christian Sands.

On the upcoming record Han is with bassist Ivan Taylor and drummer/producer Bill Wysaske, saxophonist Walter Smith III and the great trumpeter Jeremy Pelt who is quite the arsonist on this exciting lead-off track.

Han has been around a few years. I wasn't much taken by 2018's Crime Zone, but I'll be tuning in here when the record comes out. Han seems so much more convincing.

Iron Starlet includes Wysaske tune 'Nova' and his instrumental arrangement of Joe Chambers' 'Hello to the Wind'. Han originals include 'The Forsaken' in waltz time and in a Wyntonian tilt the Black Codes (From the Underground)-inspired 'Dark Chambers' are also on the album.

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Stirring Belfast and Galway performances figure on My Iris Live!

Saxophonist Trish Clowes, one of the UK's greatest saxophonist-composer talents these days, writes on Bandcamp about a live recording by her band My Iris and taking matters into her own hands given the current crisis necessitating action and lateral …

Published: 7 Apr 2020. Updated: 3 years.

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Saxophonist Trish Clowes, one of the UK's greatest saxophonist-composer talents these days, writes on Bandcamp about a live recording by her band My Iris and taking matters into her own hands given the current crisis necessitating action and lateral thinking:

''My Iris were supposed to tour and record in April 2020. World events put a stop to that particular plan. Instead here is some material from two gigs in October 2019, in Belfast and Galway. I captured our sounds with my zoom recorder and I’ve cleaned them up so I can present them to the world! Nothing can replace actually playing gigs with Chris [Montague], Ross [Stanley], and James [Maddren], but at least I can share this album with you all. It was such a great weekend away, I have very happy memories of it, and it’s been great to listen back and choose highlights. There are a couple of new tunes plus live versions of tracks from our previous two albums My Iris and Ninety Degrees Gravity. ‘Amber’ is for Amber Bauer, the founder & CEO of the charity Donate4Refugees, and ‘Shirley’ is for my saxophone.''

Trish Clowes photo: via Bandcamp. The recording has just been released.