Benet McLean: The Bopped and the Bopless review – quirky, but this is no gem

(33 Jazz)Strange to be pinning two stars on any venture from the remarkable pianist, violinist and idiomatically wacky singer Benet McLean – one of the London jazz scene’s most valuable sidemen, notably as an adventurous violinist in the chamber-jazzy Partikel. This melange of bebop, punk, horn-riffy swing and McLean vocals that occasionally seem to splice Mark Murphy and a Scottish Jeff Buckley, just slips back from the brink of being a quirky gem. A distantly Kurt Weillian vocal,...

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