The Great Wee Band: Light Blue – review

(Trio)The Great Wee Band is a 12-year-old acoustic group joining four of the most experienced and melodically sensitive straightahead jazz musicians on the UK scene – the silver-toned trumpeter Henry Lowther, guitarist Jim Mullen, bassist Dave Green, drummer Stu Butterfield, and a guesting Stan Sulzmann on authoritative, slow-burn tenor sax. Lowther, celebrating his 70th birthday this year but sounding as casually sprightly as he did four decades back, plays with the pristine tone of Clifford ...

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