Track of the day is the unusual and highly original 'Lessness' from the new collaboration A Short Story on the Aspen Edities label between adventurous Belgian guitarist Ruben Machtelinckx and Norwegian trumpet icon Arve Henriksen. Tender and soft with a loose open feel to it, this coming-together has a remarkable weight and elegiac atmosphere to it that is more than the sum of its nonetheless considerable parts.
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First Quartet is to be the debut release of guitarist James Kitchman this spring with the album, on which Kitchman is joined by pianist Bruno Heinen, bassist Tom McCredie and drummer Shane Forbes, to be released by London jazz-indie Ubuntu in April. Kitchman says: "I didn’t want to shy away from sharing certain aspects of myself, nor from my jazz tendencies. There are nods to my beginnings in folk and psychedelic rock, harmonies derived from the melancholy and romanticism of Astor Piazzolla, melodies inspired by Chopin and Satie, the expansive textures of the ‘ECM’ sound, and of course the many masters of jazz who continue to inform my playing: Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Jim Hall, John Scofield and Bill Frisell.''
Kitchman grew up in Northumberland and studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London. Listen to 'Making The World Disappear' from the album above
James Kitchman photo: Antonio Porcar