John Law (piano
& keyboards), Yuri Goloubev (double bass) & Tim Giles (drums)
Pianist John Law
returned to the King’s Hall to play a trio concert with bassist Yuri Goloubev
and drummer Tim Giles. The lunchtime date drew a sizeable audience to hear the
trio present a few numbers from Law’s recent CD release Three Leaps of the Gazelle together with one or two other tunes.
The Nick Drake tune River Man opened
the one set performance. The King’s Hall’s acoustics did little to help the
amplified instrument and at times Goloubev’s excellent bass playing wasn’t
heard to best effect. Insistence
matched Law’s percussive approach with the inventive Tim Giles (Goloubev’s
smile affirmed his appreciation of Giles, the ‘new boy’ of the trio). Law
combined jazz and classical piano styles (a concert-goer remarked ‘I heard Bach in his playing’) most
notably in Three Part Invention
followed by The Quiet Dignity of the
Minor. The use of an electric keyboard introduced an unwelcome discordant
note. This proved short lived as the trio swung out on Brubeck’s
In Your Own Sweet
Way
Russell
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