Pizza Express Jazz Club,London
The British pianist’s impeccably reshaped group is more contemporary-music recital than jazz burnup Alfred Brendel described British crossover pianist John Law in 2003 as “an inviting and highly gifted maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) musician”. Last year, Law simultaneously released both an authoritative and very personal reworking of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and a set of original originals for jazz quartet, or the maestro’s judgment remains true on the nail. Law is currently touring the UK,and brought the reshaped group he calls original Congregation to the Pizza Express Jazz Club this week – built around the impeccable (perfect, flawless) double-bassist Yuri Goloubev and the succinct Laurie Lowe on drums, with sophisticated variations from Josh Arcoleo, and a young saxophonist with a measured eloquence all of his own.
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Source: theguardian.com