Mike Soper to debut

Produced by Laura Jurd, quartet studio album Undoing marks the debut of trumpeter Mike Soper who plays in the band Kongo Dia Ntotila. For his appealingly edgy sound think Peter Evans of Mostly Other People Do The Killing renown. Other comparisons …

Published: 30 May 2022. Updated: 23 months.

Produced by Laura Jurd, quartet studio album Undoing marks the debut of trumpeter Mike Soper who plays in the band Kongo Dia Ntotila.

For his appealingly edgy sound think Peter Evans of Mostly Other People Do The Killing renown. Other comparisons are available.

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Undoing factors in a range of approaches that include flavours of punk-jazz say on 'Acrylic' that certainly lands in a WorldService Project-type raucous sandpit of a space.

By contrast via Elliot Galvin's immaculate keyboards touch the quartet sound taps into and radically remodulates a late-1970s pioneering synth pop sensibility on 'Voice Led' specifically the motif at the 35 second mark that recurs unquotingly akin to Tubeway Army's 'Are ''Friends'' Electric'.

Bass guitar on the record is from old Galvin Dreamland mucker Tom McCredie who is also on James Kitchman's superb 2022 release First Quartet. The Undoing drummer is Jay Davis who is on Matt Anderson's summertime release The Town and the CIty. The fine tunes are Soper's own and the album is out on 7 July.

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Dance yourself Dizzy - June release for Trevor Watkis Routes in Jazz ace hard bop homage to a Jamaican jazz master

Hard boppers and Blue Note heads rejoiced in 2019 at the Dizzy Reece Routes In Jazz Group tribute which toured that year in the UK and in New York. The Kingston, Jamaica, trumpeter Reece (born in 1931) made jazz history with the release in 1959 …

Published: 29 May 2022. Updated: 23 months.

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Hard boppers and Blue Note heads rejoiced in 2019 at the Dizzy Reece Routes In Jazz Group tribute which toured that year in the UK and in New York. The Kingston, Jamaica, trumpeter Reece (born in 1931) made jazz history with the release in 1959 of the classic Tony Hall produced Blues in Trinity a rarity for Blue Note given that it was recorded in London by a British producer.

And they will rejoice again next month word to the wise as The Music of Dizzy Reece certainly finds the erstwhile MOBO-nominated Lineage and Mulgrew Miller-influenced London pianist Trevor Watkis in fine form with expat fellow Londoner Ralph Moore, Josh Evans, Dezron Douglas, and the Hargrovian hero Willie Jones III on a BlueSoundScape Music recording chock full of Reece classics.

Tracks covered are the Routes in Jazz take on 'The Rebound' and 'A Variation on Monk' from Star Bright (Blue Note, released in 1960), 'Sands' from Comin' On (Blue Note, recorded in 1960 but not released until 1999) and Watkis original, 'Stargazing.' Release date for the Bluesoundscape recording is 24 June.