John Turville Trio: Conception – review

(F-ire)In naming his second album after a cool swinger by the 1950s jazz-piano star George Shearing, but preceding its appearance with nine tracks from almost totally different music worlds, the British pianist John Turville reminds listeners that he cares about old-school jazz lyricism, while knowing a formidable amount about the hybrids of contemporary-classical, avant-pop and exploratory postbop that have followed it. Conception is a harder-hitting set than its 2009 predecessor, Midas. It fea...

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