Robin Porter (tenor/soprano sax); Jack Gillen (guitar) Matt Parkinson (drums)
An interesting album by a London band recorded live at the Glad Jazz Festival last year. I scoured maps, both digital and physical, assuming Glad to be some distant Scandinavian jazz outpost. As it turned out Glad actually referred to an outpost closer to home - the Glad Cafe in Glasgow which is a prestigious community arts & music venue - not some greasy spoon!
Perhaps it's the community aspect that gives the album a rather attractive feeling of intimacy about it - almost as if the trio were playing in my own living room.
The more I listened, the more it grew upon me. Apart from their individual skills it's the way their various lines entwine. Sinuously complementing (and complimenting) each other with empathetic spontaneity. This is perhaps best personified in the final track - Lego. Just like trying to build the Taj Mahal with the Lego set you got for Xmas the pieces don't always fit as they should do but at the end of the day you find that your Taj is more futuristic looking than the original because, instead of copying, you've created!
R.A.M.'s Pete Churchill describes the band thus: “This trio brings together three of the most gifted young improvisers on the current scene.”
I can't argue with that! Lance
Release date Oct. 17.
The Storyteller: Changing Tides; Borden Wood; Hymn For Jim; Lego.
All compositions are by Robin Porter apart from Borden Wood which is by Matt Parkinson
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