Tim Garland: One review – masterful melody and a return to jazz-rock

(Edition)Few world-class jazz improvisers are comparably imaginative composers, but the British reeds player Tim Garland is that rarity. His inspired last album was the semi-orchestral Songs to the North Sky, but One returns to his early jazz-rock connections, with former Sting sideman Jason Rebello playing piano, organ and Fender Rhodes, guitarist Ant Law providing acoustic delicacy and electric firepower, world-music subtleties and hefty backbeats from the drummers, and a single, impassioned v...

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