It's only the second day of March and I've already had two cracking CDs to savour which, loving jazz as I do, suggests that this is going to be a good month.
Yesterday it was Vasilis Xenopoulos, today it's Paul Booth. This is as close to Shangri-La as I'm likely to get unless some previously unreleased Bird or Trane is discovered in the vaults of a long forgotten record company and, even then...
Booth, like Vasi, sets out his stall and must surely get lots of airplay on either BBC or the various online stations. However, apart from Paul's sax playing his flute is equally outstanding displaying a dexterity that's on a par with any of his contemporary transverse blowing instrumentalists.
Not that it's all Paul. Leader Banks, who composed all of the material, drives it along, often with a Latin feel with Crawford and Mantovani dotting the i's and crossing the t's. The former also impressed solowise.
I can't cope with this surfeit of riches. Perhaps tomorrow will bring me a re-release of The Osmonds' Greatest Hits to bring me down to earth! Lance
Release date March 31. Ubuntu Music UB0131.
View From Above; Ex Machina; Flex (For Dexter); Possible Bossa; Dust De
vil; Flutter; Capelinhas; Polycephaly; Cidade Alta; Tempesta
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