Album Interview: Ian Shaw & Tony Kofi: An Adventurous Dream - The Music Of Billy Strayhorn And Duke Ellington (At Pizza
Author: Andy Robson
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An Adventurous Dream - The Music Of Billy Strayhorn And Duke Ellington (At Pizza Express Live in London)
Musicians: |
Dave Green (b) |
Label: |
PX Records |
Magazine Review Date: |
May/2024 |
Media Format: |
CD, 2 LP, DL |
Catalogue Number: |
PXRCD1010 |
RecordDate: |
Rec. date not stated |
It’s fascinating to compare this powerful collaboration, and it is a real double header with Kofi and Shaw sharing credits, with Dave Douglas’
Kofi is an assured stylist: his
On ‘Isfahan’ Kofi’s sensual edge stills the clatter of knife on china that is implicit to a live at the Pizza Express recording. As for ‘Blood Count’, a composition too deep for tears that even Shaw is rendered silent by, Kofi’s sense of loss is countered by his urgent will to live.
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