Kate Williams Septet: Made Up – review

(KWJazz)UK pianist/composer Kate Williams might be the child of a classical pianist mother and acoustic-guitar virtuoso John Williams, but her sense of jazz timing, phrasing and swing are all her own. Made Up was written for a septet featuring trumpeter Steve Fishwick, saxists Ben Somers and Julian Siegel, and fine jazz flautist Gareth Lockrane, and Williams displays a canny arranger's handling of this broad tonal palette. There are connections to classical and Latin music, and the "clouds of...

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