Together As One (Edition Records)
Dinosaur
Released September 2016
Jazzwise Top 10 Releases of 2016
Parliamentary Jazz Awards Album of the Year
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About:
‘Together, As One’ is the third album as a leader from British award-winning trumpet player, composer and band-leader Laura Jurd and her debut with newly named band Dinosaur. Featuring Laura’s regular collaborators, friends and creative cohorts Elliot Galvin, Conor Chaplin and Corrie Dick, ‘Together, As One’ is a coherently powerful and bold album that not only confirms her promise as one of the most important young musicians to emerge from the UK jazz scene in recent years but is also a statement that will launch her music into the international jazz world stratosphere.
Track Listing:
1. Awakening (Laura Jurd) 08:33
2. Robin (Laura Jurd) 06:50
3. Living, Breathing (Laura Jurd) 06:37
4. Underdog (Laura Jurd) 02:50
5. Steadily Sinking (Laura Jurd) 01:49
6. Extinct (Laura Jurd) 09:29
7. Primordial (Laura Jurd) 07:46
8. Interlude (Laura Jurd) 02:56
Personnel:
Laura Jurd: trumpet, synthesizer
Elliot Galvin: Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ
Conor Chaplin: electric bass
Corrie Dick: drums
Recorded March 29 – 31, 2016, at Livingston Studios, London, UK
Produced by Laura Jurd
Executive Producer: Dave Stapleton
Recorded and Mixed by Sonny
Mastered by Andrew Tulloch
Photography by Dave Stapleton
Artwork design by Darren Rumney
Review:
Imagine the impressionistic electric-jazz moodiness and glistening keyboard textures of Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way seamlessly wrapped around Celtic folk melodies, Django Batesian idiom-swaps, and interwoven with American, Scottish and north African drumming – and you might have a feel for this superb set from Laura Jurd, the young trumpeter who has made such an impact on UK jazz over four packed years.
She’s joined by regular sidekicks Elliot Galvin (keys), Conor Chaplin (bass guitar) and Corrie Dick (drums) on this beautifully played and effortlessly confident collage of contemporary styles. A marimba-like hook, softly clacking sticks-patterns and a whirry, looping high trumpet figure patiently unfold the luxuriously stretching opener, skippy jigs alternating with slews of shifting dance grooves. Spanish harmonies meet gothic church organ chords on Steadily Sinking, and the nine-minute Extinct – perhaps the best track among some hot contenders – fascinatingly mingles slow-burning, valve-fluttering trumpet improv, Galvin’s gently churning Wurlitzer sound, dramatically swelling build-ups and cool ensemble swing. The album title gets this special band’s essence just right.
John Fordham (The Guardian)
