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Colin Towns' Blue Touch Paper: Stand Well Back – review

(Provocateur)European jazz composers and bandleaders have been in awe of Colin Towns since he downsized his movie-scoring career in the early 1990s and launched a scintillating jazz orchestra – feted young Manchester band Beats & Pieces are the latest admirers to tap Towns's signature mix of Miles Davis, film-noir, the Beatles, Stravinsky, postbop and beyond. Towns often works in Germany, and this new venture for his Blue Touch Paper sextet is a UK-German collaboration (Polar Bear saxist Mark ...

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22:59 on March 8 2012

Colin Towns' Blue Touch Paper: Stand Well Back – review

Guardian Music — (Provocateur)European jazz composers and bandleaders have been in awe of Colin Towns since he downsized his movie-scoring career in the early 1990s and launched a scintil... more info