Tom Bancroft and Trio Red: Lucid Dreamers review – welcome reunion for classy equals

(Interupto)Drummer, composer and all-round Scottish-music enabler Tom Bancroft unveiled Trio Red with First Hello to Last Goodbye in 2012 – a jubilant debut recorded on the first day Bancroft, pianist Tom Cawley and Norwegian bassist Per Zanussi ever played together, and the chemistry still simmers on this fine follow-up. On a skipping dance through Charles Mingus’s Jump Monk, Cawley’s imagination and farsighted improv logic drive a solo of constantly refreshed directions, w...

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