Keith Tippett Octet: From Granite to Wind – review

(Ogun)Keith Tippett has been one of the UK's most inventive solo improvisers and composers since the 1970s, and this continuous-performance suite is a fine representation of those skills. It's a framework for the impressionistic poetry of his vocalist wife Julie Tippett, and the sax-playing of four fine soloists including long-time associate Paul Dunmall. Sometimes the album is as irrepressibly lively as anything Tippett's former partners Elton Dean or Harry Beckett might have relished, but it ...

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