Dan Messore (gtr/comp); Steve Waterman (tpt/flg); Lee
Goodall (fl/alt); Aidan Thorne (bs); Ollie Howell (dms).
(Review by Lance)
This
is delightful! Messore writes music that is meaningful by which I
mean music that means something to the listener. Melodies that are identifiable
as such and he plays them beautifully - well he would wouldn't he?
You don't invent a game to get beat at it!
Having said that, Waterman and
Goodall's contributions along with bass and drums are of equal importance so
maybe a score draw all round with the leader getting the nod on the strength of
his compositions.
How to define it? This is where
Blue Note 1950's would be today if Blue Note today was where Blue Note 1950's
would have been if they'd - aw forget it you know what I mean!
Released on the Babel label on May
27 it is a gem and a worthy addition to that label which, on these shores, is
rapidly becoming the UK's Real Blue
Note.
The fire here isn't in the Pet
Shop, it's in the long gone haunts of 52nd St but it's also in the jazz
clubs of today it's in Ronnies, Birdland, the Village Vanguard and our own
gone, but not forgotten, Jazz Café. These 5 guys incorporate the history of
modern jazz with the present and, hopefully lay out a blueprint for the future.
On my shortlist.
Lance.
Lacuna: Talk on
the Step is released by Babel
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