Artist: Mark Latimer

Date of Release: 01/01/1998

Catalogue no: SPJ (CD)569

Label: Spotlite

Price: £12

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Track Listing

SESSION ONE
Mark Latimer - piano, Mick Hanson - guitar, Mick Hutton - bass, Trevor Tomkins - drums

SESSION TWO
Mark Latimer - piano, Andy Panayi - flute and tenor sax, Andy Clyndert- bass, Hal Fisher- drums

Reviews

01/01/1998 John Fordham - The Guardian

"Latimer is a real conundrum. He mostly avoids the regular UK jazz circuit and possesses the broad outlook and virtuosity to play a much wilder and more predictable kind of jazz that he tends to (when he elects to play jazz), but this set is certainly worth checking out. In an elegantly swinging mode, Latimer works his way through standards such as If I were a Bell, Alone Together and Softly as in a Morning Sunrise with alternations of two trios (Mick Hutton on bass and Trevor Tomkins on drums in one, and Andy Cleyndert and Hal Fisher in the other), and interjectons from Mick Hanson's guitar and the thoughtful and skilful Andy Panayi on flute and tenor. Though the bop-club smoothness of the guitar-led account of Softly as in the Morning Sunrise leaves a vague itch for something more angular, Latimer's clattery solo and ironic passing references to Moondance in it are terrific. His medley of pop licks on Pick 'n' Lix is typically knowing, and the delicate barely audible Ode to Life is hauntingly reflective. Lovely piano playing..."