Andy Sheppard/Brass Jaw – review

Kings Place, LondonThere's a jazz axiom that the music's practitioners never notice economic crises, since their chosen mission in life obliges a permanent one. But maybe it was a nod to the year of austerity that five jazz musicians playing a Serious Productions Christmas show made enough varied noise for about 15. The four wind players of Brass Jaw, the Glasgow-based quartet, can sound like a Motown horn section or a fair-sized postbop group. And though Andy Sheppard, the coolly lyrical sax im...

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