Jon Thorne: Watching the Well – review

(Naim Edge)Thorne is the Manchester double-bassist and composer who has worked extensively with the trip-hop/drum'n'bass group Lamb, and alongside musicians as diverse as Trilok Gurtu and Badly Drawn Boy. But this music, which was premiered at the 2007 Manchester jazz festival and is a 12-part suite for orchestra and the solo double-bass of the legendary Danny Thompson, has a character all of its own. Thompson was Thorne's original bass inspiration after he heard former Pentangle sideman playing...

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