Track of the week: Ronan Perrett Trio, 'Following You Down'

The real knack here is to sound flat - fear not alto sax rising star Ronan Perrett's lead line isn't lying low as in a pancake at all - because that fingering skill needed given the prevailing significance of the Huw V. bass line which guides it …

Published: 5 Apr 2024. Updated: 24 days.

The real knack here is to sound flat - fear not alto sax rising star Ronan Perrett's lead line isn't lying low as in a pancake at all - because that fingering skill needed given the prevailing significance of the Huw V. bass line which guides it every lower and the desire surely to create as plangent a tonality as far below you can go and as weightless a feel as is achievable against a contrarily spicey basically rock backbeat, the clue fellow Internet sleuths is in the tune title. Huh - how do they do that? This is the best from Cornish player Perrett's Between (Fresh Sound New Talent, just released) an album that contains the wailing bluesfulness you kind of crave but rarely stumble upon. The syntactic 3 stimulate and fire up the synapses with considerable gusto and grace given their sound grammar. If searching for something good to play after listening to this it's gotta to be something of the calibre of Ornette Coleman's 'When Will the Blues Leave?' followed by some choice Steve Lehman quintet material to bring things more up to date - we'd suggest 'On Meaning'. Ronan Perrett, photo: press

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Jazz goes to college: new Brubeck prize to go to a top Royal Academy of Music student

Darius Brubeck, photographed on stage in top Irish venue Dolan's, city of Limerick, with Dave O'Higgins, Matt Ridley and Wesley Gibbons, speaking to the audience ahead of the Darius Brubeck Quartet performance Shannonside on an early autumnal …

Published: 5 Apr 2024. Updated: 24 days.

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Darius Brubeck, photographed on stage in top Irish venue Dolan's, city of Limerick, with Dave O'Higgins, Matt Ridley and Wesley Gibbons, speaking to the audience ahead of the Darius Brubeck Quartet performance Shannonside on an early autumnal seeming night at the John Daly run annual festival in 2019. Pic: Salvatore Conte

The top Royal Academy of Music jazz student each year drawn from the cohorts of recently graduated students and those reaching their final 2 years of study at the 1822 founded Marylebone Road institution is to be awarded a Brubeck Living Legacy Prize.

To be assessed on ''excellence in both performance and composition'' the prize includes funding and publicity support for an album. Pianist Darius Brubeck, eldest son of the Jazz Goes To College (Columbia, 1954) and Time Out (Columbia, 1959) jazz piano and 'Take Five' icon Dave Brubeck (1920-2012), speaking for Brubeck Living Legacy, says: ''We are committed to supporting this imaginative initiative by Ubuntu Music and the Royal Academy of Music. Brubeck Living Legacy is already involved in high-level education creatively and financially in America and this is our first partnership based in a foreign country. As a long-time UK resident, I am excited to see this taking shape before my eyes and will do my part in making it a success.”