Gareth Lockrane: No Messin' | CD review

(Gailforce Records)Flautist Gareth Lockrane brought an extra glow to the final gigs of the late South African pianist Bheki Mseleku, and runs a fleet of different-sized ensembles from the award-winning Hammond organ band Grooveyard to an 18-piece outfit sporting some of the sparkiest of London's younger postbop players. This album features a brisk Lockrane septet, including the lively trumpeter Robbie Robson, tenor saxist Steve Kaldestad, and pianist Robin Aspland. Idiomatically, it sometimes ca...

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