Recent JAZZ Purchases

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 Dick Heath wrote:

Wayne Krantz and Howie 61 (Abstract Logix)- more exploration in jazz pop (following on from Krantz Carlock Lefebvre)- i.e. simple poppy opening verse, allowing Krantz to kick off into improv with the usual melodic guitar playing. A lot more of WK's vocals on several of the tunes, limited octave range used well - moments of Dylan-like sounds and moments of  bitter-sweet Chet Baker-like sounds. And note the excellent pun in the album title Howie 61 (after Dylan's Highway 61). Not as immediate as KCL but it is certainly growing.

Morglbl - Brutal Romance (Free Electric Sound/ Lasers Edge). Christophe Godin & Co. almost back on form with the new drummer settling into place on his second Morglbl recording - so this time more heavy fusion and less obvious heavy shred rock. Humour levels are high again, for instance with Godin twisting his solos this way and that  dropping in half bars of the unexpected.

And for something completely different:

John Surman: Bells of Saltash (ECM). For me the long awaited return to Surman soloing on various woodwind instruments with an (sequenced?) electronic backing, heard originally in the 80's and early 90's . Also a return to a series of connected reflective compositions on landmarks and notable building in his home county of Cornwall. 

Very different from what he did with Mike Westbrook or McLaughlin in the 60's or his recent ECM output. 

I like very much the new John Surman