Stepping out - gig choice coming up

Fergus McCreadie trio Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham Wed 15 Feb Tim Knowles quartet The Cask Inn, Scarborough Wed 15 Feb Corrie Dick Band The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen Thurs 16 Feb David Angol quartet The Verdict, Brighton Fri 17 Feb James Allsopp Quartet …

Published: 15 Feb 2023. Updated: 13 months.

Fergus McCreadie trio Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham Wed 15 Feb

Tim Knowles quartet The Cask Inn, Scarborough Wed 15 Feb

Corrie Dick Band The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen Thurs 16 Feb

David Angol quartet The Verdict, Brighton Fri 17 Feb

James Allsopp Quartet 1000 Trades, Birmingham Fri 17 Feb

Xhosa Cole Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton Sat 18 Feb

Lulu Pierre and the Alex Webb Trio feat. Tony Kofi The Bear, Luton Sat 18 Feb

GIG OF THE WEEK

Ezra Collective O2 Academy, Bristol Sat 18 Feb

Ezra Collective pictured top reach parts of a wider non-jazz consciousness quite credibly that few UK jazz acts can dream of. It isn't hard to understand why given the reach of what they do. Now signed beyond the bedrock of the jazz village to the Fontaines DC and Beth Orton-rostered label Partisan Records the London band borne out of Tomorrow's Warriors are led by drummer Femi Koleoso with TJ Koleoso on bass, Joe Armon-Jones on keys, Ife Ogunjobi on trumpet and James Mollison on tenor saxophone.

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Trilok Gurtu, One Thought Away, Jazzline ***(*)

The shadow of 1970s IndoJazzFusion falls over a wide spectrum of music whether jazz, classical music or shaped for the dance floor and any number of commercial hybrids feeding into even more disciplines across the performing arts. And tabla titan …

Published: 15 Feb 2023. Updated: 13 months.

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The shadow of 1970s IndoJazzFusion falls over a wide spectrum of music whether jazz, classical music or shaped for the dance floor and any number of commercial hybrids feeding into even more disciplines across the performing arts. And tabla titan Trilok Gurtu, whether performing with icons of jazz such as Jan Garbarek and John McLaughlin or releasing dozens of albums down the years under his name, has already left considerable entries in the dictionary or should that be dictionaries of the music. One Thought Away is typically accessible with an incendiary furious driving style to it on the one hand and a thoughtful spiritual side on the other.

From Usfret in the late-1980s through to the excellent God is a Drummer in 2020 there is an incredible span of music already in the can. And here it's yet a further inexhaustible extension of the elemental philosophy that the Mumbai born Gurtu, 71, learnt from his singer mother.

Looser than ever this studio affair that finds Gurtu improvising on not just tabla but across a spread of instruments notably utilising his Tony Williams-style drumming approach and that finds him make use even of a customised string/percussion instrument called the Basic 1 in the search for new sounds.

Dominated by the 'No Fear' Suite tracks the album is co-produced with Carlo Cantini and Robert Miles. Miles worked with Gurtu almost 20 years ago on the sparkling Miles_Gurtu and the magic created in those days is ignited in spectacular fashion once again in a voyage through the discipline of Konnakol and beyond as if Gurtu was playing music for the very first time.

'So Happy' is streaming ahead of release. The full album is out on 3 March