Artist: Jason Yarde

Date of Release: 05/01/2010

Catalogue no: JAE0001

Label: JoY aNd EaRs

Price: £12

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Appearances by

Andrew McCormack

In making MY Duo, McCormack and Yarde went into the studio last year renewing their long musical friendship while journeying from classical lyricism to red-hot, raw, jazz energy over several original compositions (with Turnage and Bernstein along for the ride). The Duo have a long association of working together in many groups through Dune Music and are also forging their way as individual composers with ever increasing success and notoriety both having gained commissions for the London Symphony Orchestra through the Panufnik and UBS Soundscapes programs. "...It's a wonderful jazz conversation" (The Guardian)

Reviews

11/12/2009 John Fordham (The Guardian)****

"the partnership between Yarde and McCormack is so unmistakably fuelled by the reflexive spirit of jazz…It's a wonderful jazz conversation...Yarde has rarely played better on record, his solos here suggesting that while he's now feted primarily as a composer, his sax improvising has quietly blossomed to world class..."

26/11/2009 Kevin le Gendre (Jazzwise)

“…both players seriously assert themselves as composers and the contrast in styles is pleasingly marked…The net result is an album of very mature performances and tight narrative focus that presents jazz composition and improvisation as infinitely fluid entities…”