Brit-jazz releases this year that have really resonated with us most here include James Kitchman's superb First Quartet, the eloquent new Mark Lockheart record Dreamers, Binker and Moses' latest, a big return to form and the advent of The W. Adding to these is new this week from Emma Rawicz, a hugely promising saxophonist and flautist who marlbank heard for the first time last year at a scintillating show in the Vortex. She plays hugely difficult music, very complex in its design and yet very vibrant and energetic in its execution. Rawicz has fantastic tone and flexibility in her sound, compositionally the style reminiscent of the poetic obliqueness of Wayne Shorter. Check out 'Mantra' from the new record Incantation, above
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