After a fling of a first listen you might well feel the need to dance a jig in the absence of all gigging at the beginning of 'The Spey'. Jings, crivvens an' help ma boab! Oor Wullie certainly would. Nicola Sturgeon may even descend from a chandelier to its strains suitably stirred. The lead-off track from the lively folk rhythms of Where Will The River Flow whips along at quite a lick. Tenorist Matt Carmichael shows a lot of spirit going by what we know so far beetling along with pianist Fergus McCreadie, Ali Watson on double bass and Tom Potter on drums sensibly nailed to the floor for health and safety reasons before the quartet have the wit to collectively hoist up their trews and kick into a dazzling burn-up that would have made Michael Brecker and dare I say Rab C. Nesbitt proud. Ancient jazzers may grumble that it's hardly Brigadoon, sad face emoji. The same cracking band, however, took the Vortex by storm on a memorable night a couple of years ago. Out on 12 March
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