Tom Bancroft: Trio Red – First Hello to Last Goodbye – review

(Interrupto)Jazz composers are always trying to balance premeditation with the quirks of improvisation, but Scottish drummer and composer Tom Bancroft has a unique take on the activity – a mix of musical breadth, surreal humour and devotion to the ways people (especially strangers) swap their stories. Trio Red was born of a week spent holed up in a Scottish village with English piano star Tom Cawley and Norwegian double-bassist Per Zanussi. Bancroft and Cawley had collaborated before, but nei...

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